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#1 26 APR 2011 at 5:37am
Xaron Centurion Posts : 10 Joined: 25 NOV 2009 Status : Online	Dear wargamers! Two of us are creating a small turn based war game called WarHex for all mobile devices (Android, iPhone, Windows 7 mobile plus PC/Mac - so almost everything that has a CPU inside - ): [img]http://www.machgames.de/dl/wh/screenshots/wh_v104b.jpg[/img] The reason why we post right now here is that we have a simple question. We are native German speakers and we have a unit called "PAK" (Panzerabwehrkanone) which is something like an anti-tank gun. Is there an English abbreviation like "PAK" in German? Is "ATG" a valid one? Thanks so far!
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#2 26 APR 2011 at 5:46am
Staggerwing Colonel Posts : 3317 Joined: 4 AUG 2007 Status : Offline	If the game is American/British vs German then I would use PaK (w/ capital 'K') for the Germans and ATG for the Allied side since most wargamers know what a PaK is. If you can only use one identifier for both sides I would use ATG. I look forward to seeing the final game! Wit Ye further, or how...? -Voluspa (Poetic Eddas)
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#3 27 APR 2011 at 2:25am
Xaron Centurion Posts : 10 Joined: 25 NOV 2009 Status : Online	Thanks! So we'll make it that way. The Germans will have the PaK, the allies the ATG. Here an early screenshot from my Desire HD: [img]http://www.machgames.de/dl/wh/screenshots/wh_104e_desirehd.jpg[/img]
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#4 27 APR 2011 at 4:40am
Kid Commander Posts : 1203 Joined: 18 JAN 2006 Location: US, FL Status : Offline	Nice. I've been looking for somthing like this. Let us know when it is ready. USN Ret.
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#5 28 APR 2011 at 12:08am
Chrisz Centurion Posts : 5 Joined: 27 APR 2011 Status : Online	Hi, I'm the Artist (Designer) of the project. Nice to see that you're interested in that game. I want to show you some 3D stuff for the game. [image]http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff501/Chrisz3D/ba10_mesh.jpg[/image] [image]http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff501/Chrisz3D/puma_mesh.jpg[/image]
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#6 28 APR 2011 at 1:01am
lordxorn Centurion Posts : 160 Joined: 31 JAN 2010 Status : Online	Very cool, I will definitely purchase this because the iPhone market is severely laking any respectable hex based war game.
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#7 29 APR 2011 at 4:17pm
davidshq Centurion Posts : 354 Joined: 3 OCT 2003 Location: US, PA Status : Offline	This game is looking great. Hope you consider making it for Android phones as well! FreeWargamer - Hutsell's Games - Dave Enjoys
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#8 1 MAY 2011 at 2:57am
Xaron Centurion Posts : 10 Joined: 25 NOV 2009 Status : Online	Thanks guys for the nice words! @davidshq: There will be definitely an Android version. The screenshot above is from my Android phone. Both iPhone 3/4 and Android will be available from the beginning.
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#9 1 MAY 2011 at 4:41am
basem2502 Centurion Posts : 2 Joined: 1 MAY 2011 Status : Offline	Game looks great and I'm certainly buying this as soon as it comes out on the Ipad.
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#10 1 MAY 2011 at 10:31am
Chrisz Centurion Posts : 5 Joined: 27 APR 2011 Status : Online	Thanks for the nice comments [sm=cowboy2.gif] We have a mini website online. Hex Battles 1942
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#11 3 MAY 2011 at 2:12pm
Chrisz Centurion Posts : 5 Joined: 27 APR 2011 Status : Online	3D art from the game. These are two of the game models i made for hex battles 1942 [image]http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff501/Chrisz3D/air_attack.jpg[/image]
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#12 3 MAY 2011 at 2:51pm
Grisnalg Centurion Posts : 67 Joined: 9 JAN 2008 Status : Offline	Looks great, count me in also. I'll want this for my Ipad for sure.
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#13 6 MAY 2011 at 9:05am
Chrisz Centurion Posts : 5 Joined: 27 APR 2011 Status : Online	Nice to hear. We think about to make multiplayer possible. Do you need this on a smartphone? What you think? [image]http://www.codeknitters.com/vb/images/styles/Sandstorm/style/bannerBox.gif[/image]
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#14 6 MAY 2011 at 9:13am
Kid Commander Posts : 1203 Joined: 18 JAN 2006 Location: US, FL Status : Offline	I don't but would it be possible to make it like PBEM? USN Ret.
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#15 6 MAY 2011 at 9:42am
smaul Centurion Posts : 205 Joined: 31 JUL 2006 Status : Offline	yeah, keep us posted, Id like to get that for my phone. love games? So do I, drop by my blog sometime. www.fungamesroom.com
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#16 7 MAY 2011 at 10:30am
Chrisz Centurion Posts : 5 Joined: 27 APR 2011 Status : Online	*Originally Posted By Kid* I don't but would it be possible to make it like PBEM? Xaron is a fan of PBEM he want to write this as a basic feature of hexbattles. Another optical problem is the unit size on the different smartphones. I want to show you two screenshots. Please tell me what unit size (1 or 2) would you prefer. 1. [image]http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff501/Chrisz3D/screenshot_6.jpg[/image] 2. [image]http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff501/Chrisz3D/screenshot_106.jpg[/image] Thanks Chris
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#17 14 MAY 2011 at 1:46pm
Xaron Centurion Posts : 10 Joined: 25 NOV 2009 Status : Online	Some more screenshots. We've worked on some editors for maps and the units itself (which are in German because they won't be public anyway): The unit editor: [img]http://www.codeknitters.com/dl/wh/screenshots/uniteditor_v100.jpg[/img] The map editor: [img]http://www.codeknitters.com/dl/wh/screenshots/mapeditor_v102.jpg[/img] It's now possible to set borders (which are visible around the river). The game: [img]http://www.codeknitters.com/dl/wh/screenshots/hb_v106f.jpg[/img]
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#18 17 MAY 2011 at 3:36pm
Strategy Centurion Posts : 315 Joined: 15 MAY 2003 Status : Online	Nice work. I would suggest reducing that "info" window to a few icons and leaving the detailed info on a separate screen (see, e.g., how Uniwar deals with this). You are almost guaranteed to have major issues getting that to show up properly on medium-density phone screens (and no chance at all on low-density phone screens). In general - be wary of screen resolution issues; this is not a big issue with iPhone development (as you have a limited number of models), but for Android you have such a huge variety of screen sizes and resolutions - with new ones being added every month - that you are bound to run into trouble. The simpler you can make the GUI, the better. /Strategy Designer/Developer, [link=http://www.micabyte.com/]MicaByte Systems[/link]
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#19 18 MAY 2011 at 1:33pm
Xaron Centurion Posts : 10 Joined: 25 NOV 2009 Status : Online	Thanks for the tipps! I have checked that stuff from resolutions starting at 320x240 up to 800x480 on Androids and it looks ok. Well yes on a 320x240 Wildfire it's not that great. Will think about these issues. Thanks again!
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#20 24 MAY 2011 at 2:13am
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#21 24 MAY 2011 at 4:23am
Staggerwing Colonel Posts : 3317 Joined: 4 AUG 2007 Status : Offline	^^^ Xaron and Chrisz, looks like you have a spamimposter horning in on your glory. Wit Ye further, or how...? -Voluspa (Poetic Eddas)
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#22 3 JUN 2011 at 3:12pm
Sigma One Administrator Posts : 10478 Joined: 13 NOV 2010 Location: US Status : Offline	Lookin' good, I know its for mobiles such as iPhone and Andriod...iPad as well I assume?
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#23 15 JUN 2011 at 4:29am
Xaron Centurion Posts : 10 Joined: 25 NOV 2009 Status : Online	Thanks! It will run on iPad as well as the iPad can run iPhone games? If you ask for a special version for iPad this is likely to come with a larger map size. Here some new screenshots, I got the AI to work. Human player: [image]http://www.codeknitters.com/dl/wh/screenshots/hb_v108_1.jpg[/image] Computer (please note that this is some kind of a debug view, that's why there is the path to the target marked and so on...): [image]http://www.codeknitters.com/dl/wh/screenshots/hb_v108_2.jpg[/image]
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#24 17 JUN 2011 at 1:11pm
jeubank Centurion Posts : 43 Joined: 17 JUN 2011 Status : Online	I have an Ipad I bought. I can never go back to the small iphone screen again. haha In any regards. Congrats on the progress of the game. Looks good. And good Strategy games are needed for the ipad!
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