I am in the process of writing an engine for a 2d RTS!
I want to make a space RTS with it but I want to put a creative twist on it allowing you to go inside the space ships, I am also looking into making a multiplayer explorer mode were there are planets you could explore (yes I am very ambitious). Here is were my conflict comes in, I am a single programmer on my team. I have been working for about 5 months and not gotten very far, I was wondering if it would be too much to make my engine capable of making (3d) third person shooter's or (2d) overhead shooter's? (for the parts where you would go inside ships). I hope I dont sound too much like a noob :/ (Experiance: C++ mostly console applications for 2.5 years, 1 year of HL2 mod dev (didn't get very far), RTS with game maker 8 (Still in dev), 2 years of programming pre-made robots with Logo, 6 weeks of programming lessons, space shooters with game maker 8, a small Java application, AVR's with C, A VERY small platformer with game maker 8. Languages: C++, C, some Java, Logo, Some Lua, GML, HTML, some Java Script, some apple script (PC user used a Mac at school and played with it), Some Assembly, some (original) BASIC(On my Intellivision computer
). Education: Learned mostly from online tutorials antiRTFM(
http://www.youtube.com/user/antiRTFM) , Documentation, the teacher from the 6 weeks of lessons.)(If anyone needs clarification let me know I sometimes have a hard time getting my point across.)
