{"author_name":"MechanicalMonocle","cat":"MiniLD","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"July 27, 2013 9:55 pm","epoch":1374980100,"text":"Wow that looks\/sounds awesome. Cant wait to give it a play!","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"dector","time":"July 28, 2013 9:13 am","epoch":1375020780,"text":"Reminds me “Emperror: Battle for Dune”.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1374976860,"likes":6,"metadata":{"p_key":"42240","p_author":"MechanicalMonocle","p_authorkey":"507315","p_urlkey":"77863","p_title":"Attrition Day 6","p_cat":"MiniLD","p_event":"LD27","p_time":"1374976860","p_likes":"6","p_comments":"2","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"507315","us_name":"MechanicalMonocle","us_username":"MechanicalMonocle","event_start":"1377216000","event_key":"18","event_name":"LD27"},"text":"

Woof – day 6 is behind us. \u00a0We got a ton of stuff down today. \u00a0Todd and Ryan are starting to wind down on the ingame assets which means Todd will be spending a fair amount of time tomorrow working on UI stuff. \u00a0Today I focused on getting the game into a playable state. \u00a0This involved getting all of the player actions working over the network. \u00a0I spent the last bit of the evening working on our neutral AI.<\/p>\n

Attrition doesn’t have traditional RTS tech trees in that you don’t build structures and do research to upgrade your army. \u00a0You need to steal everything. \u00a0To that end – you start with only 1 available combat unit and must fight AI controlled opponents on the map in order to gain upgrades. \u00a0These neutral structures automatically spawn units to defend and drop “Tech Cards” when destroyed. \u00a0The better the card is, the stronger the defense will be. \u00a0A player can run over a tech card with one of their units and if they manage to return it to their base then they are granted new units or structures. \u00a0The catch is \u00a0– if your base is destroyed then you drop the cards you’ve collected and any player can come and capture them.<\/p>\n

\"Attrition<\/a><\/p>","time":"July 27th, 2013 9:01 pm","title":"Attrition Day 6"}