Spring RTS Engine

I've been working on this game on and off for a couple years now, and it's become way more involved than I had originally anticipated. It's finally to the point of being actually *sort of* playable, though certainly not nearly complete or balanced. The AI isn't yet functional, but the network play should work.

It's a 2d Newtonian space combat game, with an emphasis on a lot of control over the units and being mostly realistic-ish.

The sounds are entirely stolen from other places, but the code is entirely mine (all 329 classes of it) and the graphics are mostly mine, albeit some of it with some obvious inspiration.

It's entirely in java (yeah, yeah get over it) so it should theoretically work on nix, but its mostly just tested on windows xp.

I'm not really sure why I'm posting this here of all places, other than that you people are hopefully sympathetic to indie games. I'm hoping some feedback will get me interested in this again and alleviate my boredom. Unfortunately here at school I can't really even play it on lan or anything, so it's basically to the point where I have to make it public to continue.

Anyway, I'm sure I forgot some obvious bug or something, but here it is:
http://www.filefactory.com/file/b589e3h ... r_0.10.rar

And a couple of random screenshots:



Thanks for any feedback

Vids are your friend- post them. Earn our trusthers.

Catastrophic failure-video mode not supported.

win7 x64, intel cpu, nvidia 8800gt with recent drivers, updated java, 1920*1200 rez.

Beherith wrote:Catastrophic failure-video mode not supported.

win7 x64, intel cpu, nvidia 8800gt with recent drivers, updated java, 1920*1200 rez.

Shit, that meant it couldn't find a video mode with the right refresh rate and color depth. I modified it to be more lenient before it outright crashes, so hopefully the one I just uploaded will work.

As far as a video, I might if I get a chance, but like I said I can't actually play it against anyone here at school so it would just be menu mechanics and such, no real gameplay.

Looks like a lot of work. I got it working, but i have no clue how to play this. I tried clicking everything, but nothing happens... i checked readme.txt but it was practically empty, so.

Also, i found nasty bug: when you click the menu in the game screen, you can't get back to the game again! you have only two choices: exit the current game, or quit the whole program.