Hello everyone, and belated happy new decade!
To the right we’re cranking away at one of the several menus and dialogs needed for the Metagame (aka “Campaign”) mode. In the coming days and weeks, I hope to throw up some more mockups, teasers, and info about this aspect of the project which will tie the whole Cortex Command experience together. In short: it’s a turn-based game which sits on top of the tactical missions (hence the “meta” – i.e. a game about the game) and puts them in a larger context. What happens in the tactical on-surface battles directly affect the orbital metagame, and vice versa.
We have cut away a lot of the feature creep and finally nailed down a feasible scope for this Campaign mode, and I think what we’ve ended up with is going be very fun to play. As always, we’re making it all data-driven, so you crafty guys can make and mod its content for a customized experience.
Having achieved a fairly clear and realistic picture of exactly how it’s all going to work is pretty exciting for us, so I expect productivity on this to really pick up! Stay tuned..
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That’s not metagame, that’s a GUI editor.
THY LORD HASTH RETURNETH!
Told ya.
That’s not a GUI editor that’s a birdman!
No it’s a GUI editor alright.
I’m glad you’re looking to make as much of this as mod-friendly as possible.
Specifically are you looking to make other hard-coded aspects of the game like the Pie-menu customizable?
I know for one it would solve a lot of problems with gun and actor mods to have specific new Pie menu functions for things like Alt-fire modes, etc, and let some mods move off of keyboard keys (which exclude gamepad users).
I think that most everything in this game is Data-driven.
I c wut u did thar
I remember a while ago Data saying that he was working to take as much hard coding out as possible, and the GUI already is moddable (not function, but everything else).
A man runs up to Andy, and tells him that the people of the forums have no posts to read.
In response, Andy says, “Let them read cake!”
wait…
Well andy has lotsa posts, but data has to approve them.
I CLAIM THIS DEVLOG POST
any objections?
FINE!
Why is poor Lizard here all alone?
I WANT MA COMPANY!
BAD COMPANY!
OBJECTION !!!!!!
oh its too laaateeee
boooringg
Now ain’t you the biggest motherfucker ever?
OBJECTION
I DEMAND JUSTICE
And I demand that you STFU!
I concur with natti’s statement!
AND I DONT
Well too fucking bad you little troll. What ya gonna do? Cry?
NOPE. IM GOINT TO RAISE MY VOICE MY POWERFUL VOOOOOIIIICEEEE
Dream on, trollerboy.
Dum-du-dum…
Wassup guys?
Gismo is a trollerboy.
no lizard is
No I’m not.
I’m the postkeeper.
Ha-ha! I say that this Dev Log post is now mine! And Lizard is not here to stop me! Mwahahahahahahahahahaa!!!!!
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Shit, spaces not working. My super D is not working.
;_;
Now i can’t claim this dev log post.
*goes off to cry in a corner*