- I've played it a bit.
* The move ratio for cruisers/aircraft carrier feels low. Maybe have it 2 vs 3 instead of 1 vs 2? Actually in general I think more moves would make it more fun and dynamic.
* Why can I only move in a straight line when I plan my moves beyond 1 turn? And only in one of the 8 points of the compass?
* At first it felt weird to play the game of "where shall I shoot". Like, just shoot at the ship, it's right there! But then I got used to the dynamic of "is he gonna move?" and trying to anticipate it.
* The AI isn't good enough, or at least, I won most games after the first one. I think they could use aircraft more effectively.
* Needs a bit more hand holding early on, like "what are those dots on the radar actually revealing?" I worked out they could be land, or ships. But I still found it hard to use radar effectively.
* Yeah, the ships are very tiny and hard to see. You could afford more pixels.
* On some maps it might be fun to know the land/sea map already. (That also seems realistic e.g. for historical scenarios.) The first few turns tend to be a bit dull because you're just trying to map the area.
* Relatedly, seems like you usually start at the top and the AI is at the bottom, which loses a bit of the excitement of finding the enemy. In the death match at least.
* No matchmaking? I don't know where I'd find someone to play with....
* I never use countermeasures. Just moving to get behind the missile/aircraft and/or dodge the gun does the job pretty ok. Maybe that's my mistake though?
- Nice job. As someone who spends an inordinate amount of time on pixel art, I immediately noticed that something was off on the logo [1]. When I brought the PNG down, it looks like when you were trying to clean the asset (probably a background removal tool that was too aggressive), you accidentally made part of the hull alpha-transparent.
Also, consider adjusting the sprite assets for the frigate and cruiser. Right now they look very similar, which could be frustrating if a player wanted to do a quick visual scan and identify which ships are which.
[1] - https://navalstrike.app/assets/naval-strike-logo-xIcrDNQX.pn...
- Thank you - you're right, it must have been when I removed the background surrounding the logo, I did it on a colour not the area and missed that the hull was the same shade. I'll fix that :)
I'll play with cruiser sprite too, if you're curious this is how I save them:
frigate: [ "................", "................", "................", "...kkkkkkkk.....", "..kHHHHHHHHkk...", ".kHgGGGGGGGgDkk.", "kHHgwGttGttwgDkk", "kHHgGGGppGGttgDk", "kHHgGGGppGGttgDk", "kHHgwGttGttwgDkk", ".kHgGGGGGGGgDkk.", "..kHHHHHHHHkk...", "...kkkkkkkk.....", "................", "................", "................", ],- Nice~ I used to do something similar back when I made little games in BASIC using blocks of sequential DATA keywords to visually represent on/off pixels for the various sprites.
- that brings back painful memories of typing lines and lines of DATA keywords from library books into GW BASIC.....
I'm an embedded engineer, so it's how I would encode a sprite for displaying an LCD character, it seemed natural to do it this way!
ETA: I've fixed the image transparency and the frigate sprite is less fat, thanks!
- Very cool. It’s been a while, but years ago I remember using a nice little tool that somebody had made that let you export BMP pictures to an array you could drop into an Arduino C program for displaying on an RGB LED matrix.
4 points by pinchydev 3 days ago | 6 comments
