Mechwarrior Battlegrounds

Devion · Post by **Devion** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 6:00 pm

Since yesterday MWBG (Mechwarrior Battlegrounds) has been recoded in VB.NET in combination with IrrLicht.

Mechwarrior Battlegrounds is an isometric-view action game. Players battle out in their customized Mechanized Assault units against each other or in a team. The key point is multiplayer. There will be no single player activities in Mechwarrior Battlegrounds.

A player will always have control of its mech and cannot control any other unit whatsoever. Players are able to customize/fine-tune their mechanized assault vehicle (From now on ‘Mech’) from a number of template mechs. With these mechs, they enter the battlegrounds in a number of different missions including but not limited to Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Assault, Capture the Flag and a few more.

The project is currently in it's infant stage with now the terrain rendering up, isometric camera is working barely and we got 1 mech mesh which (snif) isn't animated but will work for testing out features

We had a 3 man dev. team which of one left the team due to not being to work with .NET. So we are in desperate need of some good IrrLicht gurus (and modellers)

No project page yet; Most of the discussions were on VBForums @ http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php? ... t&t=357807

Midnight · Post by **Midnight** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 6:48 am

Sounds cool I've been thinking about making a mech game but I'm not familure with .net and I'm sure my ideas would be different.

but this sounds like a game I would want to play definatly I love mech!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 2:14 pm

One Tip, before you get the same problems as i got with a Mechwarrior clone. Choose another name for it. After Microsoft has gotten the Rights on the name they dont like if any other is using it.

Also, you can use Mech but without the Warrior. if you use both words microsoft is geting crazy...

Joe_Oliveri · Post by **Joe_Oliveri** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 7:09 pm

Sounds great, Good luck!

Devion · Post by **Devion** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 8:40 pm

Actually the IP of Mechwarrior/Battletech lies with WizKidsgames not Microsoft. I've mailed WizKidsgames with the request to use their property for a freeware game. (No problem so far.. but then again.. big companies change minds in less then 10 secs)

Changing the gamename isn't the hardest so at this stage I'll just call it the Project name and not the final release name

Anyway; Any modellers around and/or VB.NET coders with understanding of IrrLicht (having some small little annoyance atm)

Midnight · Post by **Midnight** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 3:21 pm

whats wrong with giving it a new name thats half the fun!!

Devion · Post by **Devion** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 7:37 am

Mmh...
Capellan Conflict?

Jamotto · Post by **Jamotto** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 7:47 am

Warrior Mech

vermeer · Post by **vermeer** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 10:16 am

yup, change the name. Too easy to have probs later on when change is more hard to do.

BTW, I'm very interested in vb.net. I just have almost no ability(well, no ability) to code, but I liked vb6 (i'd love that somehow it would have survived) , so I guess I'll try to learn the same very tiny bits of code I learnt to do with vb6...

Devion · Post by **Devion** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 6:03 am

bit offtopic but, convert your vb6 code to vb.net and check out the changes.. you'll learn a bit about vb.net that way

I'm in the horrible stage that I code VB.NET for MWBG and VB6 @ work

on topic: I guess it will be called CC or "Battlegrounds for the thingies that look like they came from some popular games"

Other · Post by **Other** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 2:04 pm

or Techwarrior Battlegrounds

Ur Idea sounds cool, I would join it, but why basic?
why not c++ - its so much simplier.