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Open Mech Online Battle Arena - 3D WebGL Multiplayer Game
openmoba's Introduction
- League of Legends
- DoTA 1 / DoTA 2
- Blizzard Allstars
- Hawken
- HoN?
- Smite?
What’s pretty much the same
- Many different champions with unique skills
- Items each champion can buy, with limited item slots
- Dominion-like points for judging player performance
- They give more diversity and are easily comparable
- 3D graphics
- Asymmetrical maps
- Maps are very hard to balance
- Require more team-focused play
- If both teams reach objective, faster wins. If noone reaches objective, it’s a draw.
- Lasthits
- I’d like players to focus on other things than clicking on minions
- Boring phases of the game, like early farming or mid-game impasse
- More place-oriented map objectives
- They help focus combat more
- More character development
- The player should be able to customize the champ he plays with a bit more
- Maybe consider mech-like gameplay - easier to customize and build from parts
- LAN-friendly
- Account export from cloud to play on LAN
- Dedicated server for LAN matchups and tournaments
- NO way of farming experience on LAN matches - they are just for fun
- I’d wish - web access to champions data etc.
- Launcher either in 3D (like Hawken) or in native OS technology
What I’m not sure about just yet
- Different camera for each champion / while using ultimate
- People are used to isometrical view
- Constant view is easier to code
- Not really fun/usable
- Dedicated item slots
- Pro : no more 5xLongsword stacking on a fragile elf archer
- Con : no more 5xLongsword stacking on a fragile elf archer
- Takedowns instead of Kills/Assists
- Monetizing
- Free to play seems best anyway
- WebGL 3D Engine
- After some discussion, Three.js was chosen due to its powerful features and popularity, whilst still being simple and fast.
- Library for networking
Ice library?
- ICE library would require the source code of applications using it to be OpenSource. The client could be opensource, but I doubt the server should.
ZeroMQ is released under LGPL, which makes it possible to dynamically link it to the program.
- ZeroMQ JavaScript binding uses Flash for TCP connection.
- Socket.IO - care-free realtime 100% in JavaScript on both server- and client-side
- Client uses native WebSocket which communicates through TCP
- Server on Node.js
- Should work on all browsers (including mobile) and without Flash
Lua for all items, champion abilities and map scripting
Custom game content TBDecidedLua is under MIT licence - no problems here
- JSON for all items, champion abilities and map scriptin
- Custom game content TBDecided
- JSON is native JS format so will be parsed/loaded much faster than lua/xml
Shameless steal of SFML window classes?
Windows, Linux and MacOS out-of-the-boxSFML has free commercial licence, but it has some LGPL components inside
- Interoperability out of the box
- webGL working on any OS in any webkit browser (best on Chrome) and possibly on other browsers in the future (Firefox and even IE?)
What I’d like to see in Alpha stage (circa 3 months)
- One playable map
- Around 12-14 heroes
- Around 30 items
- Fully working multiplayer
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