Aftermath Kingmaker

So... 

I have decided to accept a quest of great danger and with great potential for much frustration. As many of you will know, I am a game designer by trade - this means I mess around with developing rules and systems for games, often populating those systems with connecting threads of lore. What I do not do however, is actually implement any of this stuff in a digital format, this is the realm of artists and programmers.

No more!

I just downloaded "Game Maker" and am going to try my damnest to make the rules of Aftermath Reborn into, well, a computer game. I've successfully completed the tutorial, and made a moving clown go "boing!" a lot. Next was creating the actual game which I am dubbing "Aftermath Kingmaker". 

Step 1. Create a board.
* Making it out of hexes proved too tough, so i've settled for squares. It actually worked better as you will be able to move diagonally too, so raiders will have 8 targets instead of just 6.

Step 2. Attach each square to a database
* This means make each square a data point so that I can assign value like square number, wealth, manpower, units present, etc.

Two hours later, that's as far as I got, just a board split into lovely squares but no data base, and no flashy numbers which show up on the strategic map. I still hate programming

Sleepy time now, but the quest will go on!

Good luck to you! Godspeed!

Best of luck on your project!

Soooo... will you be adding in any elements of Kingmaker to this? Say yes... please say yes...

Must admit it fell by the wayside a little, damn you Civ 5 and Neverwinter Nights 2!

Unfortunately I am going to be busy with work for the next week or two, so somewhat doubt I will have time to work on it meaningfully for a while. :S

Just do your best lad.