Displaying The Fleet
Here is a screen shot of what the game will look like with the ship positions, asteroids, and control gfx:
Let's start from the bottom left: the ship gfx. There are 3 systems that are tracked in this game concerning each ship: the shields, the weapons, and the engines. Combat is performed by ships launching Drones (guided missiles) at each other. When a ship is first hit, the shield turn from green to yellow, the next hit turns then to red, and the next hit destroys them (they turn to grey). After this the ship has no shields. The next hit will randomly damage either the weapons or the engines until both are destroyed (eventually turning grey). When the last system is destroyed, the ship explodes. The explosion will cause damage to other ships if they are to close. One situation that happens quite often is a ship will loose its weapons, but still have engines. The most effective thing for this ship to do is to move in close to at least one enemy ship and self destruct. In the previous version of this game, I was able to do considerable damage this way (I'll try to make this version more challenging!). If you look at the "Pics" form you will see all the required gfx to visually display the various states a ship can be in.
The next set of controls (from the left) are the Up / Down arrow buttons. These let you view the various ships in your fleet. The Green crosshair in the picture moves to each appropriate ship as it is selected. You can also select the ship by pointing and clicking on the screen.
Next, are the navigation controls. You can select which direction, if any, a ship will be moving at any given time. The game can be paused at any time to review ship movements to avoid collisions (the previous version didn't have this option!).
The last set of controls do what they say: Fire: Fire a Drone, Target: Set the target for the Drone to move to, Destruct: Self-Destruct, and Pause: this will pause the entire game but allow navigation changes.
The "ReDraw" button and Number display next to it will be removed eventually.
Here are the current things to download to take a look at:
If you want to download JUST the gfx to look at, here they are:
Otherwise the gfx are included in the project: