I am looking into creating a game basically copying the great old game Full Spectrum Warrior.
Instead of controlling a character with standard WASD movement, or a strategy game where you control your characters or army form a top-down perspective its something a little in between.
The idea is that you control a squad of 4, where you click and point on where to move and shoot. Instead of explaining everything in detail here, please have a look at the clip below:
I have a couple of ideas where to start, but if anyone has any suggestions on how this could be set up, please let me know!
If you look at the video, they display a collection of 4 goals you can select from when giving commands to your squad, the current “controlled” squad member always takes the goal that you choose and the rest of the squad seem to choose randomly from the other remaining goals when carrying out that order.
The goals for your squad mates will always be simple offsets of the current goal of your current “controlled” squad member.
If you look at gameplay of Diablo 3 for example when a player has a few followers, the followers movement goals are always exactly the same as the players current movement goal only with a simple location offset depending on which side the follower is to the player.
I would just calculate an acceptable location offset for each squad member to the selected current goal location.
