Project Euphoria

by **ubeefx** » 14 Jan 2021, 19:53

These are some screens of another project of mine.
Basic idea is to only support a few competitive constructed decks.
The AI is aware of the purpose of the decks and the engine is rules compliant.
Added are fancy rendering and animations.

Using lwjgl for hardware rendering.

Using software rendering with animated foil layers.

Not saying that it will get there eventually.
I have this idea already for several years.

by **ubeefx** » 15 Jan 2021, 20:30

Right now it is just a fancy screensaver.

by **ubeefx** » 16 Jan 2021, 21:27

This topic will contain all information about my project Euphoria.

by **ubeefx** » 16 Jan 2021, 21:33

New screen. The battleground is getting shape.

by **ubeefx** » 17 Jan 2021, 17:21

On the screenshot a lot is going on. It looks much better in motion of course.
Both players have a very basic deck with a couple of red cards.
The players are drawing a card at the draw step and removing the excess card at cleanup.
When a card is drawn, it moves with an animation from the avatar to the hand.
When a card is discarded, it moves from the hand to the avatar.
Cards also shift from position in the player's hand in a smooth way.
The sun in Euphoria is spinning and the foil layers on the avatars and cards are animated.

by **ubeefx** » 17 Jan 2021, 20:05

Animated gif made with screentogif tool.
This is very low resolution. The game scales to any screen size.

by **ubeefx** » 19 Jan 2021, 22:10

Basic layouting of hand and battlefield. Playing lands.

by **ubeefx** » 20 Jan 2021, 21:05

Tapping lands for mana.

by **ubeefx** » 21 Jan 2021, 22:34

White weenie equipment deck.

by **ubeefx** » 23 Jan 2021, 10:58

Running on a Macbook.

by **ubeefx** » 23 Jan 2021, 13:03

Ordering and grouping of permanents.

by **ubeefx** » 24 Jan 2021, 19:32

Game is now linked to a first basic AI taking random decisions.
Intention is that every included deck will have a custom AI that understands the goal of the deck.
AI is playing lands and permanents with a zero cost in both mains, still without a stack.

by **ubeefx** » 25 Jan 2021, 22:38

Learning the game how to pay mana costs and use lands with a custom deck.
This will be very different from Mad Wizard as a mana pool will be used making the game more flexible.
The delayed mana costs trick that greatly helped the AI speed will not work anymore.

by **Trong22** » 26 Jan 2021, 08:38

I like this style.
How long have you worked on the drawing?

by **ubeefx** » 26 Jan 2021, 18:00

Thanks Trong22.

All images are screen captures from work in progress.

The actual artwork is not from me, I am not an artist.
Most art I use in my hobby projects comes from web searches.

The drawing code is written during free time this month, reusing some stuff from Dreamwalkers.
All images show the software rendering, except the one with the Minotaur.