Demonstration Video:
An XCOM-like, turn-based tactical game made in Ruby/Tk from a 2D, top-down perspective.
The player controls a team of five blue soldiers, with the goal being to eliminate the enemy red soldiers by attacking them several times.
While I did not complete the enemy AI code, I implemented the A* pathfinding algorithm, allowing players to select a soldier, click on a destination and have a soldier find the shortest path there around obstacles. This was fascinating to learn about and I hope to make use of it in further projects.
To play, make sure that you have recent versions of Ruby and Tk installed, navigate to the squad-tactical-game folder,
and run ruby project-1.rb
Left-click on a blue soldier - Selects that soldier, displaying his stats in the right sidebar. Remains selected until you press the deselect soldier button or you perform an action (ex: attacking someone)
Right-click on the currently-selected soldier - Shows contextual menu with some actions that soldier can take. Info shows a window with a short description of the soldier, Overwatch allows the soldier to shoot any enemy that moves within a few squares during the opponent's turn, Take Cover makes the selected soldier harder to hit.
Right-click on a soldier who isn't the selected soldier - Shows contextual menu showing chance to hit (HC) as a percentage that decreases as distance increases. Click the Attack button in this menu to attempt to attack that soldier.
End turn button in right side-menu - When you're done with all of your moves, press this button to let the Red Team move. One Red Soldier should move 5 squares to the right of the right-most blue soldier at the end of the prior turn.
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