A little Stargate

Firstly I would like to sincerely thank you for visiting my blog and taking an interest in how things are progressing.

Today you can download another preview to see what has been keeping me busy. In this preview you will see that I am another small step closer towards a fully playable game.

• Game Preview
• Microsoft .NET 3.5

When first launching the game you will see that the user input dialog (the gray box on the bottom right) ask you whether or not you want to be dealt a new hand, after selecting your option you are given your power for the turn, and cards that can be assigned or played from the hand are highlighted with a green border. Also when you play a card form your hand the player power is automatically decreased. Another thing you will see is that when you assign a character to the mission the points the card adds to the mission are automatically shown.

Here are some of the things I will be working on next.

1. Resolve a mission and allow a team member to earn glyphs.
2. Stop/Block cards and show the appropriate icon in the user interface.
3. Show the failed missions for the turn and allow the player to select the order in which to put them back in the mission pile.
4. Allow the dynamic display (on the cards) of card cost and skills as some card effects will change these during play.

After getting the above tasks out of the way I feel it is really important to start focusing on getting the two player element of the game going. To make life much easier I decided that I will use an IRC server as the game server for online play. What this means is that you will be able to play a game across the internet with anybody via IRC, and if one IRC server is down you can just choose another - for LAN only games you can always just run a local IRC server.

Anyway, thanks again for dropping by, and please keep visiting and commenting, it helps to keep me motivated to continue development ;-)