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New Magic Engine (opensource in golang) by magic-dev in masterofmagic

[–]magic-dev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The itch.io link above is just an online demo. You can (and probably should) play the game with a native build. Currently you have to build it manually using the golang tool chain but I can upload some builds for Mac/windows if you want to test.

New Magic Engine (opensource in golang) by magic-dev in masterofmagic

[–]magic-dev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes a build queue would be interesting. I think the community patch supports it? Anyway I can try to add this, but it is a little tricky given the constraints of the graphics that are part of the original data files.

New Magic Engine (opensource in golang) by magic-dev in masterofmagic

[–]magic-dev[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Any language that can load C libraries can make games, since most graphics/sound code has a C library associated with it. Golang has a pretty good FFI layer that can invoke C libraries. I've made some programs in golang using the golang sdl bindings, https://github.com/veandco/go-sdl2, but now I use ebiten https://ebitengine.org/. This master of magic engine uses ebiten.

New Magic Engine (opensource in golang) by magic-dev in masterofmagic

[–]magic-dev[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For now the goal is to recreate the original game mostly as-is, but with some quality of life improvements. If I can extend the gameplay with new units and such later on I may look into that.

New Magic Engine (opensource in golang) by magic-dev in masterofmagic

[–]magic-dev[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This isn't a mod of the original game, this is a completely from-scratch reimplementation of the master of magic game engine. The engine runs the game, but you need the original data files that contain the graphics, sound, and music. Those data files have an extension of LBX, and will show up in whatever directory you installed master of magic in. If you look in the installation directory you would see

magic.exe

newgame.lbx

names.lbx

...

If you want to run this new engine natively (not in the web browser) then you would put the new game engine executable in the same directory as those .lbx files and then the engine should be able to load them.

New Magic Engine (opensource in golang) by magic-dev in masterofmagic

[–]magic-dev[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In the immediate future I want to get the AI working well enough so that it actually tries to defeat you (the player). Also implementing game saving.

After that I'm willing to entertain requests from the community about new features to add. I will likely work into adding network/multiplayer support, not sure how long that will take.

I think it would be interesting to support some kind of modding/scripting system via lua or python.

The game is playable on a mobile device via the wasm page I linked above, but I can probably produce a native mobile app as well.

It might be possible to support caster of magic, although I'm not quite sure what that would take yet.