Barons of the Galaxy is a loosely cooperative strategy game of commerce, industry, politics and warfare played online with thousands of players at the same time in a self-expanding galaxy. It is played through your regular internet browser, iPad or Mobile Phone with nothing to install and is free to play with limited features. Players assume the role of a corporation in a near future sci-fi world where the human race has recently mastered space travel. These corporations represent the major industries of the human race which profit by supplying the 16 resources and over 150 different products and services that every city in the quickly expanding galaxy demands. Product prices, volume of goods and the size of populations rise on fall purely on how much product the players can provide to these cities. Trading between corporations who specialize in different goods is often required and military strife is usually inevitable.
We've gotten most of combat implemented this week and we also have a Battle Reports screen that shows how the battles progressed.
Combat in Barons of the Galaxy happens between turns but they are not resolved instantly. That is, it usually takes several turns for a group of units to destroy another set of units. This gives all sides time to bring in more units, retreat or have other players join the fight on either side. You can for example attack another corporation in Paris and the units will do damage to each over the next several turns at which time another player flies a force to Paris and attacks the same corporation. His forces join yours in the attacks. Likewise the defender can have an ally show up and set there units to defend him and they will join the defense.
The Battle Report shows the two sides of a battle, which can include more than one corporation on either side. The green health bar is how many Hit Points the units have left, the red is how much they took last turn. You can select a set of battle from a particular location and timeframe and then flip through them with a next / prev button to see how the battle unfolded
Another feature we implemented was the ability to select a couple of colors that represent your corporation. Those colors make the colored borders around your units to distinguish them.
We want to do some more beautification of the battle report screen and put in some small graphs and stats as well but so far its functional and looking pretty good