

First, the endless desire to add more pieces to enable more shapes won't really go away because you can always encounter more shapes you can't adequately represent with your pieces. There are two immediate problems with this. Everything begins innocently: you make a few pieces, enough to make some wall loops, and you're happy:Īnd then you examine your concept art and examine what you can assemble with your set and make more, because your kit isn't versatile enough:Īnd again and again and again, adding more and more pieces to enable the buildings you actually want to build with your kit. Like folks do in Skyrim with kits like these:Įxcept we had a few issues with that approach. Make some pieces adhering to a grid, place them together using editor tools like position/rotation snapping and mirroring. Now, those can be done with a traditional modular environment workflow.
#March of the phantom brigade series
Let's begin with a series of posts about our modular environments. Which will be the subject of our next dev blog.įeedback and questions are much appreciated! In order to pull all of this off with a small team, we're going to be building a number of procedurally assisted tools and workflows. Change camo patterns, materials, and colors.

You can customize every detail of the parts, and equipment loadout of your units.

Try to take out your objectives before reenforcements can respond, and capture enemy equipment in the field of battle.Īfter battle, you can take your Squad back to the hangar and refit your units with the spoils of war. Gameplay has three parts, a dynamic territory control campaign, where you fight to take back installations, factories and cities to aid in your war efforts.Īsymmetric tactical battles pit your Squads against enemy forces, where you will ambush them in the field. With your nation formally surrendering, the fight for independence falls to the soldiers of the Phantom Brigade. That is, until your massive neighbor invades and conquers your country. Your small nation was blessed with a wealth of resources from these impacts. Massive rocks containing rare earth elements rained down for much of the planet's early history. In an alternate history version of Earth, a near miss with another astronomical body has left Earth with a ring. Phantom Brigade Is a turn based tactical RPG, focused on player driven stories, and customization.
