July Developer diary for Commander Now Available!

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:45 pm

The latest diary has been added at http://www.slitherine.com/commander/

This issue focuses on the AI and introduces Boxer, the lead artist. He sure has been busy

joe98 · Post by **joe98** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 11:17 pm

counters free-standing rather than sitting on a counter like a more traditional board game.

I presume that means like chess pieces or like Strategic Command 2.

Most units were a mixture of various arms, though some might be tank heavy and some infantry heavy.

I hope each and every armoured unit is not represented by a Tiger tank like Grisby's A World at War.

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 8:36 am

Yes they will appear like a unit in Command and Conquer of SC2.

The size of formations we are dealing with is too large scale to have entire units of Tigers or Panthers, instead each will be a mix of various different equipment. However we will be using different tanks to show technological progress.

anguille · Post by **anguille** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:29 am

Will we have the option to turn the units appearance into military symbols...i am sure most wargamers would want that (like in Hearts of Iron).

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:32 am

Thats the plan, though we haven't done it yet.

dulak · Post by **dulak** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 6:59 pm

For some reason I cant see anything at the link ... well I can see the left column of options and the top column of games but I get a big white space under that; anyway to fix this (on my end etc?)

thanks

Redpossum · Post by **Redpossum** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 10:05 pm

dulak wrote:For some reason I cant see anything at the link ... well I can see the left column of options and the top column of games but I get a big white space under that; anyway to fix this (on my end etc?)

thanks

Same here. I see the "frame" stuff, and then just a big white blank where the content of the page should be

Post by **IainMcNeil** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 8:05 am

Hmm, I'll to fix that from the office so can't do it till Monday.

For now you can click on the news button on the left and then scroll down to the news item for the diary and follow that link.

Redpossum · Post by **Redpossum** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 12:15 am

iainmcneil wrote:Hmm, I'll to fix that from the office so can't do it till Monday.

For now you can click on the news button on the left and then scroll down to the news item for the diary and follow that link.

That doesn't seem to work, Iain.

The top news item is the one from 8/22 about the new concept artwork. One can scroll down to the news item from 8/8 and follow that link, but it leads to the July dev diary...no sign of August

Although, it islabelled July 2007

(/me snickers)