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For long I have wondered we haven't got any Ao variant ideas taking inspiration from genres of real time strategy games. Of course, exclude that "Age of Alert" that failed epic-ly which is nothing but lame and uncreative sprite rip. I'm particularly a fan of the Command and Conquer franchi...

Very recently I've played an space battle themed RTS named Five Nations , and that reminded me of space contents in Age of Galaxy, which has been pretty plain for the moment. So here I've tried brainstorm some ideas into refining (or sorta reworking) the space rosters of factions. Humans is probably...

Probably would want to discuss how infantries can be done in this variant. Rather than doing all of them in the fashion of AoMW and AoWW which each type of infantry unit mostly only uses a specific weapon, I'd want some units that combines additional capabilities within. By that, I don't mean the in...

Some building designs, for United Front and Federation

As usual the faction icons comes first

This variant is heavily inspired by several classic RTS pieces by Westwood, namely Command and Conquer (Tiberium saga), C&C Red Alert, C&C Generals and (very little reference on) Dune; with also some reference on narrow variety of their mods. I have long wished to create something that would...

Rest of the infantry sprite rework

I'm reviewing designs of unit sprites, and trying to make improvements or introduce newer designs to them.
These three are what I've done just in last few days.

Some new sprite progress.

First of all, tech buildings! And some tech icons: Plus some neutral garrison-able buildings.

Stratego (dev) wrote: ↑Wed Jan 18, 2023 6:47 am (remark: building images (normal, aoccupied) no longer accepted in one image, need to be separate images, occupied one is called *_occ.png)

Understood, though for representation purpose I still prefer to have two versions in the same image.

And I have a rough idea for adding some battlefield salvaging mechanics. Destroyed vehicles usually leave a non-blocking scrap behind (in the same way as how corpses are spawned in AoF). These scraps can be destroyed by simply have a unit move onto it, or by any form of splash damage. Recovery vehic...

Part 2.

And here's some stuff for NF, part 1.

second batch, CA stuff.

Begin posting current sprites in batches:

I have actually made some conceptual designs on architecture of different factions in form of loading screen wallpapers Continental Alliance https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1054621633551269888/1054621708243439616/Alliance_City_Night.png Northland Frontier https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachment...

Horizon League Inspiration: ECA from Rise of the Reds (Generals Zero Hour mod) Horizon League.png The League is a group of loosely connected nations with a common defense pact with long history, controlling the Eastern coastlines of the Grand Continent and some minor offshore lands. For many years ...

Continental Alliance Inspiration: Allies from Red Alert, GDI from C&C Continental Alliance.png Among the current Great Powers, Continental Alliance is undoubtedly in line of being the most successful. Controlling the largest total area of habitable Green Zones of the world, it provided the Alli...

2032 NCY, we opened the Pandora's Box that should have never touched without clues. Just within few days, the white HAZE dust leaked from the deep underground through the Rifts contaminated more than 60% surface area of the planet. An unexpected disaster we had never seen, that turned our once beau...

close range anti air and fire support

Armored trucks and heavy anti tank missile launchers

2 more Frontier infantries

Some Northland Frontier units.

(ahh whoops, those tanks has been posted last time)

More unit sprites progress

Part 3.

part 2.

Asset dumping part 1.

Here's my art for barracks of the two faction I've chosen to begin with - Continental Alliance (CA) and Northland Frontier (NF).

Current draft on icon.

Some crucial information Haze Dust The Haze Dust is a mysterious substance with many potentials left to be discovered by humanity. It was never discovered until they spread out from the rifts under Black Pillars during the Catastrophe, there are many arguments and debates revolving the origins of Ha...