Battlescape development

[Daiky]

Wanted to note that from tomorrow I'm on holiday for a week, so if you write me a PM and I don't answer within a week you don't have to panic ;-)

[michal]

Daiky, what's next in your plans? After you did basic salvaging?

( I'm asking here, cause i think it's more proper thread for talking about battlescape development )

[Daiky]

I recently found a copy of the book "Art of Game design": https://artofgamedesign.com/
it's really a great book, so in my free time I'm going to read that.

And other than that I'll just play openxcom a bit and see what is missing and then implement that missing part. I'm going to check if personal armor works in battlescape, I think not. So that might be next.

[michal]

As for missing parts, maybe it would be nice to have somewhere (on wiki?) described working / missing features?
For example items:

Item	Battlescape	Research	Manufacture	Ufopaedia
Laser pistol	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Personal armour	Yes	No	No	No

Battlescape features:

Feature	Implemented
Shooting	Yes
Dying	Yes
Lifts	No
Psi control	No

Intersecption features:

Feature	Implemented
Shooting UFO	Yes
Shooting X-com interceptor	No

etc

Requires much work to describe everything. Also requires updating of such lists / tables. On the bright side everyone could know how far OpenXcom project is advanced.

[Daiky]

Hmm, nice it is.

But, all the people in the entire openxcom development team already normally keep changelog.txt up to date. I think I forgot to do it the last time. Hope I don't get spanked by the project manager :p

But seriously, I thought that file was an list of what is in a current release, isn't creating another table of it not double work? Also, we don't know a detailed list of what is to-do.

[michal]

changelog.txt is mostly useful for creating release notes for every new version. What i've suggested is mostly for showing actual implementation status, so it's some kind of mix of changelog.txt with roadmap from main site in more condensed form

Anyway, it probably would be hard to maintain - like changelog.txt

[Daiky]

That's a project leader's job and I'm a programmer here :p
I'd love to do the project lead for some opensource project maybe in the future. Or a combination project lead/game designer.

[michal]

Maybe SupSuper would let you to be OpenXcom co-leader?

[Daiky]

nah, a project of my own I mean

[moriarty]

will there be a vote? I'd like to see OpenMasterOfMagic

[luke83]

master of orion 2, the other guy doing this looks like he has stopped
https://openmoo2.org/en/

What am i saying, finish openxcom first 

[michal]

Daiky, do you have any idea for your own project?

[hsbckb]

Is it another remake or a new game?

[Daiky]

I have no idea.

[luke83]

Daiky, when can we expect to see all the aliens in game? Any thoughts?