New online competetive turn-based tactical customizable strategy game!

I'm having a lot of fun with a Vanar Frost themed Deck.
Oh you killed one of my creatures? Cool, it becomes another creature.
Gravity Well is a huge FU. It's practically a Timewalk type spell when it comes to minions.
Polarity and Frostfire have been my Go-To spells every game so far.

 

I too have been playing pure frost. I abandoned Songhai for good. I don't like Vanar's other mechanic (not sure what its called, but the one where you're on the other side of the map).

 

Yeah, I think it's called Infiltrate? Whatever it is, it's neither good nor fun.

 

Mechaz0r!

 

I've been playing already, but just received a code in my email. Someone should use it. 287194b3-7c97-427d-a5a9-529961541579

 

What does Mechazor actually look like?
I've never bothered trying to build it.

 

It's pretty badass.

 

Anyone still kicking butt at this?

 

Ha. I was just thinking that I should poke my head into this again nd was going to go looking for the thread. Thanks for the reminder!

 

Which is probably why you didn't bring it up in the hearthstone thread. Looks almost exactly like what I was envisioning gameplay wise. The aesthetics are unfortunate though.

 

By aesthetics do you mean art style? That is the strongest thing duelist has to offer.

 

I agree that the pixel art is unfortunate and disappointing given how strong the character/faction design and art direction is.

I also raged when they nerfed the abyssian general's art:

 

Well the idea was a tactical interface complex enough to matter but not so much that it overshadows the draw.
You mentioned that adding a tactical layer opens up a can of worms (range vs melee, balance, etc), and I'm curious if you think deulyst satisfies enough in those areas.

 

The semi automatic systems of endless space and kings and legends might be the solution. Once you drop a champ movement is automatic but you have opportunity to manipulate the champs once they've moved.

 

I love it when someone puts into words what I've been feeling but unable to articulate. Sok is a genius. too bad he wasn't designing DL.

The head designer/programmer for DL is a friend of mine from college. He gave me an opportunity to design AI for the game for a single-player/training mode. But the game rules kept changing so often (as it's still under development) so I gave up after building some of the core AI architecture/concept. I still think about revisiting it and might do so once they're closer to launch. It's all in coffeescript, so the syntax is easy. My AI design was fairly brute-force (using web-worker multi-threading) and I'm still wondering how many "branches" of AI analysis I can afford before I consumed too many resources...

 

You basically need a dedicated sole developer to have a robust AI. It's no simple task. That said, I exclusively play ranked multi-player, so I have had no exposure to Pox AI outside of the tutorials I was briefly forced to play during the DOG relaunch

The core game mechanics are quite similar between DL and Pox, though: grid-based movement/targeting, same game objective, spell cards, etc. Lots of overlaps between the basic AI logic in both games I'd imagine. But DL is like Baby's Pox (plus designed to have regular board-wipes, while Pox stalemate games can have massive, bloated armies on both sides), so the brute-force method I'm using is practical in the case of DL - would need serious optimization for Pox since there's vastly more possible AI moves each turn...or just an entirely different technique.

The first game I ever created was an AI programming game (for AutoHotkey) that had players submit AI scripts to control an army in a turn-based strategy game. I think AI is fun ^_^