euheimr / techiton

A Real-Time Strategy game with mechanical simplicity and annihilation in mind

Techiton Game

A robotic Real-Time Strategy game with mechanical simplicity and annihilation in mind.
Built with Unity3D and inspired by Total Annihilation (1997).

Please note: Currently in pre-alpha and early stages of development!

Overview

Some basic stuff:

• The game itself is open source.
• The website application (https://techiton.net) and game session server however are closed source.
• Single-player will be free, forever, period.
• Multiplayer is planned to have a one-time payment of $3-$5 for each account to cover the gameserver costs.
• Signing in using Steam will create a new account and bind to your Steam ID.
• No payment is required to make an account.

Features planned

Units:

• Planned: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ito3cpsd2kbptad/techiton-units-and-structures.xlsx?dl=0

Accounts:

• An account will be optional and free for single-player and would only be used for tracking individual statistics and replays.
• The account profile will be viewable from https://techiton.net/profile/
  • Profiles will be hidden by default.
  • Profiles will show number of overall games, wins, losses, energy generated, metal generated, units created, units destroyed and time played. This will also be viewable in-game, but outside an active game session.
  • The game and website will dynamically handle the maths for the generation and display of averages of the said values.
  • After each game concludes, the game exits to show the post-game numbers and a button linking back to the game lobby.

Multiplayer:

• The Steam Platform will without a doubt be seamlessly integrated with the game.
• The plan for multiplayer is to have a small one-time fee of $3-5 to help in server costs.
  
• This also includes replay storage and user account statistics.
  
• (this also could help with phony account creation too)
  

Game lobbies:

• For the in-game login, imagine along the lines of the Warcraft III login screen but with a robotic theme.
• Game lobbies and general chat will be displayed after login. (visualize Diablo II's lobby)*
• If an account is not flagged for multiplayer, then it will be rejected and will hyperlink to the game page.
• Group chats are planned.

This is basically how I document, design and develop: GitKraken is essentially part of my workflow (and pay a subscription for GitKraken Pro). GitKraken Glo board Kanban cards.

Have ideas or want to help? Let me know what you're interested in working on!
Email me at [e-mail] or message me on discord (euheimr#0950)!
Or, join the Techiton discord channel here and tag me in a comment with @euheimr.

• My devblog source code.