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Making 2 Open Source RTS Fan Games that are Completely Moddable for Fallout and Elder Scrolls in Godot (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Batmorous@lemmy.world to c/gamedev@lemmy.world

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Please recommend any resources/tools you can about learning more about:

Game Dev (Have some prior experience)
Programming (Less than a year of Software Engineer experience)
Storytelling (Environmental, Spoken Implied, Etc)
Communication
Team/Studio Creation/Management/Growth
Physics
Concept Art Direction
Art
Animation
RTS Specific Dev.

I do not plan to do this all alone but would like to give these projects a good start by setting up the underlying systems well.

I can search all the above but who knows maybe some of you have tips and tricks/resources that others don't know about

Also, open to any suggestions for the fangames and want to grow them with the community so let me know!! Looking to build out and implement features wanted by the fans for the fans

Currently building out pre-production for the games, documentation, overall roadmap, projects websites, community servers on Stoat, Forgejo for version control, personal account for contacting me on Mastodon mainly, volunteer team for various aspects, covering project updates here on Lemmy/Mastodon/Peertube/etc

Taking various aspects of inspiration from StarCraft and Age of Empires Series for Fallout RTS, and Elder Scrolls RTS (Especially campaigns). Looking at other RTS games for more inspiration as well such as Empire Earth, Star Wars: Empire At War, Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, Halo Wars, Warcraft, and Command & Conquer. Open to any suggestions for anything to look at systems, visuals, audio, story, etc wise to make them better overtime

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

See if the SkyBlivion or SkyWind teams have assets you can use.

[–] Batmorous@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Would definitely be useful I'll ask them right now. Appreciate the suggestion slazer!

[–] Jeffool@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Along with @slazer2au@lemmy.world's suggestion of checking out what's available elsewhere, there's also open source implementations of Command & Conquer games already available! OpenRA is a project that springs to mind first. Also, EA actually released the source code to several C&C games! I think those are all under GPL licenses, but please do double check that.

With only a year of experience programming I don't know your comfort level, but maybe you can at least find some like-minded people in the communities around those things! Good luck!

[–] Batmorous@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

That's actually really cool of them to do whoa. Alright I'll check out their licenses if they are GPL then I'll open them up and start figuring what everything does and see what can be useful for the projects. Thanks a lot Jeffool for the words of encouragement and advice!!