Making a Strategy Game (It's Really a Tactics Game) 

You just cant stop developing fire games cant you?

Tbh I've been more interested in this project than blades of deceron since you first talked about it. Really happy to see updates on it and to know that it wasn't forgotten.

Big advice, make morale and pushing the key aspect of the game, make units give ground when they lose combat or when facing heavier unit. Make casulties very low and focus on morale, if your game could replicate things like battle of cane (which total war can't) it would be a little gem.

Honestly im keen on this game... hope its come out as soon as possible without any problem keep it up buddy!!❤

It's like I wish for a strategy game like this, and you make it exactly like it was in my mind Keep up the work, man❤

Bro this has got potential! Amazing the progress you made over such a short amount of time.

Your projects have never disappointed me, well done.

I have been working on a game similar to this but with fantasy settings having 16 different factions among 10 unique races. This video has actually given me some more ideas regarding my unit selection and unit actions. Thanks for the inspiration and your game looks amazing ♥

very impressive for 10 days of development! nice work

This randomly got recommended to me (I suppose I am a total war nerd), but I was then amazed to see you're the legend who made Gladihoppers. Brb gonna watch all your videos :D

i personally believe you are on the for frint of mobile devlopment since your able to make controls and games that arent overwhelming for such smaller screens and add in depth features that work well with the game, Im pumped to play this for myself for sure

Way back (when I think Gladihoppers was in early access) I randomly found Gladihoppers on the play store and played it a ton. I always held some extra respect for you thanks to the simple fact that you had a timer before ads to avoid missclicks. Had no idea you made videos! Gonna be binging you now for sure :)

bro gladihoopers is one of the best "flash" game i have erver played and i didint even know that you made it. Without gladihoopers i wouldent survive the quarantenee thank you

best part about smaller scale strategy games is tactics matter so much more, so cool what ya have done here

I can't believe you made gladihoppers, ive been playing it pretty much since it first come out and just Randomly found you, I enjoyed beating the game

Cant wait to see this i love every other one of your games❤❤

Congratulations on your success. I have always wanted a game like this.

I just really hope that in some form that pikeman will be implemented in this awesome game. Keep up the amazing work!⚔️

that's an amazing start. as a huge fan of this kind of tactics game, something that i hope gets in there is different kinds of terrain underfoot having advantages/disadvantages .... so hills have a bonus for troops on the higher elevation and increased range for missile attacks. rough going terrain reduces speed of traversal and favors defenders. woods areas obscuring line of sight and favors defenders. etc.

simply amazing. I wish i could tame programming like you do. Creativity + programming skills + IA will be a mindblowing result in a few years. Anyway, congratulations for your job, i think is very playable and attractive for those who loved total war shogun, cossacks, warcraft II, etc. Thanks for sharing

This is more than amazing as it is.❤ Just a the small scale of a game like total war is still huge. I know this because I tried to do one year ago too 😅. Really great work man ❤❤❤

Looks amazing! Can't wait to play!

That friendly fire though! That's rad

It looks great can't wait for it

Hi! I've been wasting time on youtube and saw this video and found your art similar to gladiator 2d game. Then I checked your other videos and found out that it's you made that such cool game Gladihoppers game. I had spent lot of hours there, it's really amazin game! Thank you! I'm gonna wait for this one! Good luck with development!

Here are some basic warfare 101 as inspiration for game. I summarized it into 5 points, which I think will help you to find ideas and flesh out game. To win a war or battle It's important to understand 5 points, If one of them is in trouble then you'll have a bad time. 1. Morale 2. Supply 3. Tactics 4. Information 5. Experience 1. Morale is important factor and It's influenced by many factors like sense of security (soldiers next to you) or most important is symbolic and that can be figure, Place or a object. Examples: Flag, Holy cross, Capital city, leningrad, King, Famous leader like Hannibal. This can also be double edged sword It will help soldiers fight but if the object, figure or place is lost then army will break and retreat. The more important it is the harder is the fall. 2. Supply. Pretty self explainatory. Army needs arrows, tools for repair, food! and medicine. For example if army marches through desert without sufficient supplies then soldiers will start dropping dead and by the time they reach enemy it won't be a battle but a slaughter. Lost a battle before one even began. Logistics are blood of warfare and they win wars. 3. Tactics Good use of terrain and soldiers and other factors 4. Information knowledge can also win a battle before it even begins. With information you can set up ambushes and know weak spots. There's also misinformation! You can mislead enemy with false information and then crush them. 5. Soldiers need to be drilled in combat and mental strength. This influences other points. Here's other suggestions Terrain: Forests, shallow waters , mud, higher and lower elevation and different grass textures to make game look better. - Forests : Will grand some protection from arrows and cause combat problems for cavalry . - Mud: Slows downs heavy units and cav. - Elevation : if it's higher elevation then it will grand better protection from arrows and higher range for archers. + Enemy has to climb up. The cav will also have problem going up. - Wheat, long grass : will make game look cooler. Weather: Will make game look cooler and impact battlefield. -Raining : Not much of a impact but will slow down some heavy units as it can create mud. -Heavy wind : will make archers inaccurate -Snowing : Will make archers slightly inaccurate due to cold (Unless it's nordic unit) -Blizzard: Very bad visibility, Morale hit for both sides, speed and stamina debuff and disables archery. -Sand storm: Same as blizzard. The weather also can combine to create worse conditions! I think that's pretty much it so far for now.

Looks pretty awesome! I envy your skills to actually build your game! Keep it up!

exactly the same ideas brother, goodluck i will be looking forward to buying it

I Am soooooo excited for this one!

10 day dude that's awesome

I cant wait to make videos on this game!!!!

Very cool, I've been wanting to make a simplified total war for a long time so seeing this is very cool :D

i love ur games bro!!!

Been looking for a fire game like this. cant wait

I will definitely place this when it's released

As an enjoyer of multilayered strategy levels, like world maps and battles, I adore this. As do I adore the pixel art style of the little dudes. But I’ll note that on the thumbnail the game looks *even better*. Consider actually doing it like that, with isometric view of the landscape, to sell the scope of what’s happening. Gonna be keeping an eye on this one.

Awesome video bro 😮❤

Yooo the legend is back Hope it blows up and maybe add some microtransactions in this maybe?

*Looking forward for this*

I dont know who you are as this was recommended to me through RU-vid, and there's not many games that are like this, so I assure you this is a million dollar game my friend. Looking forward to playing it.

it looks really fun ! one thing that could be cool to add would be a leader for each side. if he falls the battle is lost so you can use flanking strategies to try to go around the enemy lines and get their leader especially when you are outnumbered and can't win through brute force, I guess troops around the leader could have some bonuses so if you play risky and have your leader just behind your frontline you can have better soldiers. Also cavalry, really fast moving but useless against big groups (unless they are archers).

this is cool man...ty for sharing

wow can't believe how criminally underrated this is keep up the awesome content bro

I can’t wait for this fire game

I think a supprising game you could take inspiration from is conqueror's blade. There are many unique class types and different rarities. The game is really fun with you controlling a general and leading cavalries, musketeers, archerers etc. I'd also recommend every troop to stand out but like i said, conquerors blade while is an action game, it has a lot of tactical eleents that is nailed pretty well. Keep it up!

This is cool 😎 and I'll be waiting for this

This is actually fire

Damn I was recently thinking about making a game very similar to this haha... Best of luck to you!

i would really LOVE to see those shields to be put to use! maybe make an ability to raise shields in response from an arrow attack

LOL you're the Guy that made Gladihoppers ? Amasing I loved that game Thank you ❤❤❤

Looks really cool, it'd be nice if you had preset formations that the person could click like "shield wall" etc things of that nature

Just found this channel. Subbed for more awesome dev logs :)

I saw at the end of the video that the archers do a fair bit of damage, and could possibly be overpowered. I think that there should be two types of melee units, a skirmisher (fast speed, low health) and a spearman (lower speed, lower damage, but insane arrow resistance)

looks really fun so far ! if wanting to give more tactical depth the game ( as i see is discussed in other comments ) terrain obstructions ( forests units can't move through, large rocks, and buildings ) as well as adding in more objectives beyond team death match ( get a unit to this point, kill a certain "General" unit , or destroy an object ) another fun thing is - while it could be a physics nightmare, having melee units push back targets they hit ( maybe certain units like maces and axes pushing further back than swords and spears ) could help emulate the ebb and flow of total war battles without the same complexity- while also in theory allowing the player to pull units out of melee ( hit models being pushed away having a slight headstart on running away ) not giving the same pushback to ranged units helps prevent super ranged supremacy- no reason to bring anything but ranged troops if they can shoot away anything that threatens them after all overall looks like a really promising game and i wish you the best ! happy holidays !

Idea: Formation: units with shields can lift their shields up or down to provide strategic advantage against archers and infantrymen. This would weaken the unit if they had it in the wrong direction. Say a infantrymen unit is attacking another, and the other has their shields up, they one with shields up would get less of a bonus in combat. Vice versa with the other formation.

Love the art

I thought the other game you mentioned looked similar, you're the guy who made Gladdihoppers! I randomly found Gladdihoppers when I wanted to play something while on vacation and I have been in love with it since!

I've been playing glad hoppers for like 3 to 2 years and today I just see this is the developer I just wanna say on your game.is solid the blood the graphics you know it's good game

I like what you are doing keep up the good work man.I wish if you could make a Napoleonic war style.Where you need to survive and gather items from the battlefield,like a Mini DayZ style.

I would add one more thing that every new game needs but 1st let me say some ideas: -Archers ( ranged units in general ) to have a strategy when melee approaches to stay in formation or to scatter -> Staying in formation could make a benefit of volley fire while scatter would look like more fire at will style. - Melee units to be able to block ranged projectiles. -Maybe pre selected formations so you change it in the menu? Maybe combine formations like ranged + melee to melee will always cover for that ranged unit? But what I really want is a feature where I could spend a few money, maybe some with 800% value and then a battle pass and then some other features such as paid only hero.

Can't wait for this to be released soon..

This reminds me of the game Bad North. I love it personally and it is similar to this! I would suggest perhaps having shield unites be able to use shields when not moving (or something similar) and something with archers. I think being able to choose sections of the map to have them fire on when enemies go into would be very interesting. It would provide for great use of ambush tactics. Just a thought!

I'm working on something just like this! This looks great keep it up!

I'm so excited to this game to come out!❤

This is so great, I've always wanted to make something like that, but thought it was impossible for one person!

It looks fun. I would enjoy to play it when it's done.

As a medieval theme combat system reference I suggest mount and blade. Choose different formation and strategic unit moves could really feel nice in a 2D game. Maybe being able to select unit in custom group.

I NEED THIS

It gives me Dark Omen vibes. Pretty cool, good work!

make it so the combat units with shield can use said shield to block arrows, or a specialized shield unit that can block for everyone else

YOU MADE GLADIHGOPPERS?? thats amazing keep up the good work

Looks pretty sweet.

Really interesting, and inspiring. I also want to make some strategy game, and I like your idea. BTW, really cool art work(not only map, but also pixel units in game). You asked about ideas for improvements, so here what I have now: 1. Add melee attack for archers, so they can fight in close combat. 2. Reduce ranged attack power, since now I see that archers can deal with anybody from remote, so it looks quiet unbalanced. 3. Add new ranged unit like crossbow archers, make them more powerful, but less ranged then regular archers. And increase reload time for them. So player need to make proper choice which units use and how. 4. Maybe add some actions for units, for example, for warrior with shields add possibility to activate shields, which improves defense against ranged attack, but slow down a little bit. 5. Maybe add more defense for the units in the center of formation. Like if they have unit to the left and to the right size they need to fight only in "one direction". This brings more tactics, as attack in flank bring more casualties for enemy. 6. What if creating some side quest(if it's normal term for RTS genre) on global map to provide player more ways to collect gold. It should be like pause before new major battle. For example, raid on some village and grab as much material as you can.

Sounds great

This is MAD, I love this idea. I think that if you put the characters in 2D but the terrain in 3D the game would look crazy

I think you should try adding more interactive unites like shield bearers that can be switched in modes between charge, shield from arrows and brace still, or spear bearers who can change there stance between brace and dash, or even commanding them to charge. It would also be cool to see units being able to interact with the environment like hiding behind rocks to prevent arrows and cutting down trees for shelter

I liked the idea !

this game honestly looks extremely cool. Bra jobbat/godt arbejde. One thing i think would be cool that really hasn't been done in these large scale battle strategy games is equipping troops on a more personal/specific level. So like you could have a base unit that you then for example equip with spears for longer hit range or maybe light armor to make the more mobile. I think it would make a nice deeper layer to the game and also work well in complimenting it as a game. :-) Now that im looking at it jýou could just use some of the art from ur other game (blades of deceron), if you do look into maybe implementing it. Inspiration for this could be found in something like battle brother

I need this game

This game looks amazing

When expanding the AI it would be cool to have different enemy commander templates/preset. Like the enemy commander is Cautious, Foolhardy etc. And other obvious stuff like terrain and flanking modifiers as well as varying troop types and army compositions.

I have always want this type of game! You could also use "Orders" Like Orders from a game called Total Tank Simulator which i also played, as well have a Upgrade/Unit Tree in the game, Sieges is always interesting in a medieval style

Custom game mode where you choose for both sides would be a great addition and add more replay ability

Upvote for knowing that it is a tactics game :) I like the "projectile mechanics" (friendly fire), seems like it has some basic "physics" (meaning the graphical representation of the shots is not independent of the damage calculation).

That's pretty cool

Btw for the UI when your in Battle you should try looking the gameplay of a game called "Winterfalling" and you might get some ideas on it and Gladihoppers is my childhood game, Thank you for creating the Greatest game I have ever played

Looks great

I am making an indie RTS game myself as well! It's a long but fun process for sure!

It would be cool of the shields also effected the battle. Like if units with shields have a chance to block attacks, negating or reducing damage. Units with bigger shields could have higher chances to block, and the same could apply to arrow fire. This way you would have to pay more attention to the weapons and gear that your units use, adding another layer of strategy, and making battles last longer.

I always wanted a FFT game with a world map that other people could be on and have battles with, fight over territory etc

another one? letsgoo

Oo, id like to play this one

I will be waiting for its release

this is so cool, reminds me of "hanjuku hero". i hope u can make the map like hanjuku hero XD and use ur battle system

I have a couple of suggestions for the game which i think could improve the fighting mechanics. 1.Cavalry, Spearmen and Hard armored units to add diversity, more tactics into the battlefield, cavarly could be used as a mobile unit to charge into enemies and flank them, however quickly becoming weak after prolonged fighting. Spearmen could be used to hold away enemy infantry units and would be extremely good against cavarly, however less mobile and easily defeatable by archers. hard armored units could be used to advance towards enemy armies while under archer fire allowing other units to advance. 2.Morale system, a morale system that depending on the level of it would make units fight a lot better or simply run away from the battlefield, each unit could have it's own morale level and the whole army could have one depending on whether the entire army would run away. Could add banners that a soldier inside a unit carries, and while holding it it would provide extra morale boost for the troops, however if the soldiers carrying it would be killed then the morales would drop drastically inside the unit. There could also be a general that if dead would provide an even bigger morale drop than a banner. If enough units are forced to escape then the whole army could break. 3.Supply system/Limitations of archers, make archers have a slower rate of fire, and have a specified amount of arrows that each archer can shoot (for example 24), that could be refilled by marching the archers to an edge of the map where a supply wagon would be set allowing refillment of ammunition a specified amount of times.

love it!

Damn! I'm starting to think this guy is reading my mind! Your work is truly incredible❤

Will you add terrains to give advantages and disadvantages to the player? Edit: Horse archers would be pretty broken but I guess the rough terrain can counter em, also, a buff for your troops when you flank the enemy would be great to compensate for your team if your troops are numerically inferior

soon you will upgrade this game until the best bro. keep up your good work. i would like to try this game.

It looks great and I'd love to play it