Broadside

Personal Unity Project

Role: Everything but the art

Broadside is a naval tactics game I’ve been working on for the last several months as a way to improve and demonstrate my scripting skills. As such it uses no plug-ins and everything except for the on-click action menus were scripted and implemented by me

Features:

• Procedural map generation and piece spawning

• 3 unit types with an infrastructure to create more very quickly

• Ocean tiles with variable depths that can change between turns

• A finite state machine that allows enemy ships to make decisions based on the expected utility of aggression versus defense

Ships can be customized by the designer in the following ways

• Base aggression/cowardice

• Likelihood to remain in combat when threatened ‘DoIStandMyGround’ is a parameter on every ship

These tools mean that in addition to the streamlined ship production architecture, designers can make multiple ship ‘subtypes’ by simply altering their behavior variables.