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Here’s another juicy shot of my labor of love, Firmament Wars. Attacking, moving, and resource accumulation all work, now! At this point it’s coming very close to being a basic, functioning version of the game.

Firmament Wars – User Interface

So, at this time, here’s what actually works:

• Starting, joining, and initializing games.
• Configuring your nation.
• Attacking/defending, combat validation, and moving through your own territory.
• Manpower and resource accumulation.

Tasks remaining in order to have a basic working game:

• Resolving when the game is over.
• Finish manpower deployment action.
• Finish muster action.
• Add some basic UI and animation stuff.

Once that’s finished I’d like to do some invite-only private testing of the game with other players. We’ll see how it plays, iron out the problems, and then I’ll finish adding all of the other bells and whistles that I have planned:

• Add ability to build structures.
• Add cultural milestone rewards.
• Add food milestone special rewards.
• Add a basic chat interface.

That’s all for now! Stay tuned for more updates in the weeks ahead.

Data is now successfully loading from the server and the user can now click on tiles and load data from those tiles. When you click a tile it will show the user’s flag, nation name, account name, and info about the tile, such as armies and area name. Next I will add more details such as tile resources, structures, and more!

Firmament Wars UI

The game creation lobby will look… something like this. I considered throwing a chat module in there, but I don’t think that’s necessary quite yet. But maybe in the game itself.

Firmament Wars – Game Lobby

This particular query was a bit complex. I had to use a join, group by, and having all in one statement! But it’s working great! I also made some great progress on the code to create games.

Firmament Wars – Active Game Query

Take a look at the latest functionality in Firmament Wars.

I plan to offer more than 100 flags in the game to represent your nation in the game. Here’s a look at an original creation by Gabriel Oliveira.

Still very early in development, but here’s a picture of early development.

USA vs UK in early development