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mission statement

Palito (portuguese for "Stick") raised from the need to improve the user interface and gameplay of Total Annihilation. There were so many bugs and limitation on the game, yet we were so addicted to it, that we couldn't stand anymore :). barrett9h got the front and started focusing on the gameplay, more than anything else, since we are a team of developers with very little graphic design skill. The simplification of the graphics of totala were necessary to make it possible to accomplish, but also to make it accessible to as many systems as possible (we are even thinking about a console/curses user-interface for this purpose.) So join the discussion of how should seem the open-source next-generation totala!

roadmap

`[started 2002/06]`

`[DONE 2002/12]` pre-alpha:

Create the basic infrastructure for all the game elements.

[DONE] portable engine for graphics and input

[DONE] input handling
[DONE] screen update handling, FPS control
[DONE] script language for 2D vector drawing
[DONE] font system

[DONE] manage the data structures for players, units, etc
[DONE] basic commands for selecting units and give them orders
[DONE] resource management
[DONE] nanolathing (a unit builds another unit)
[DONE] repair
[DONE] simple colision detection
[DONE] simple ~~path finding~~ (not really, units just randomly turn direction when can't move forward)

alpha:

Create a playable game, with client/server networking.

[DONE] accelarated colision detection
[DONE] more advanced commands

[DONE] groups
[DONE] patrol
[DONE] order list copy/paste
[DONE] advanced unit selection management
[DONE] full screen mode (switchable) / resize window

[DONE] in-game console
[started]client/server model
[started]startup screen for player/game setup
change game speed (+/-)

pre-beta:

Add 3D terrain and advanced physics.

[DONE] wreckage
[DONE] map terrain with mountains and water
map features (metal mines)
classes of units affecting the movement (ships, subs, hovercraft, planes, trains, automobiles..)
real path finding
multiple classes of weapons (machineguns, lightning, laser..)
"push" physics on colision/explosion/shot hit
basic unit AI (automaticaly shoot enemy, run away, repair)

beta:

communication/jamming
visibility/radar affected by the terrain
deformable terrain
more than one weapon per unit
formations
units walking over others; smashing

palito 1.0:

Fix bugs in beta, polish the code, write documentation.

palito 1.2:

[started]sound
savegames
multiple UI (including a text console)
multiple input configuration (VI-like key bindings)

palito 2.0:

implement the game as a quakeC-like script (perl?)
computer controled oponents
single player missions
music
3D client (OpenGL)
???
profit!

team/contact

e-mail

barrett - lead developer
zED - gameplay, network
myke - user interface, unit design

contributors:

leguas - unit design (jip)
brainman - blah blah blah
leandro - blah

ideas

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