From: "Jakob Ilves" <illvilja@yahoo.com>
To: xconq7 <xconq7@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Non flat maps (use pentagons and septagons on maps)
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 17:40:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031120173747.55020.qmail@web40903.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
Hello!
The orbiter is back, and in this email I'm considering to take a trip to the moon... And you are
welcome to join me on the ride...
One thing I've been tinkering with on paper and in Java for approx 10-12 years is to let strategy
games take place not only on a flat hexagon playfield but upon a playfield where you have
occasional pentagons and septagons thrown in.
For instance, there were a few strategy games written in the 80s (Task force games' "Cerberus" and
Game Designers Workshop's "Traveller") which uses hexagonal maps of planets where a few hexes were
replaced with pentagons, resulting in a playfield which topologically was a icosokaeder (20 sided
die). That would be cool to use in Xconq (or any other computer strategy game as well).
Imagine the 32 patches making up a leather football to be a playfield for Xconq. Ok, it would be
a heck of a small map but still.
Actually, by using septagons (7-sided "hexes") in clever ways it's possible to create a playfield
with "tubes" protubing out of or into playfield surfaces. One can have a few large ikosaeders
tied together with bridging tubes.
Imagine such a playfield where you have various terrains laid out... wow! Imagine the nightmare
of displaying the thing in a GUI.... ouch! It's the latter part which I've been scratching my
head with.
In the nordic mythology, the world consists of one huge tree, the ash named "Yggdrasil". With
such a playfields with pentagons, hexagons and septagons, "yggdrasil" can be played upon in Xconq
:-).
As I said, this was a trip to the moon. Stay tuned. I'll create some docs and images for you to
view with this.
Best regards
/IlvJa, about to be lost in space
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next reply other threads:[~2003-11-20 17:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-20 17:40 Jakob Ilves [this message]
2003-11-20 17:50 ` Emmanuel Fritsch
2003-11-20 18:04 ` Eric McDonald
2003-11-21 2:24 ` Brandon J. Van Every
2003-11-21 2:50 ` Eric McDonald
2003-11-21 11:56 ` Brandon J. Van Every
2003-11-21 16:34 ` Eric McDonald
2003-11-21 2:18 ` Brandon J. Van Every
2003-11-21 2:32 ` Eric McDonald
2003-11-21 2:37 ` Eric McDonald
2003-11-21 6:58 ` Stan Shebs
2003-11-21 9:55 ` Jakob Ilves
2003-11-21 16:59 Elijah Meeks
2003-11-21 20:59 ` Eric McDonald
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