Nuno Silva

Battles in Orion’s Belt

In Orion’s Belt, a massive multiplayer game that i’m helping developing (blog), the battles are made in a board similar to the one used in chess.

Until now, i could only explain the idea. If you wanted to see how the battle works, you had to play the game. Because that is something that very few people are welling to do, we created a way to embed the battle in order to insert it in any place we like.

So, i introduce you a battle of the game Orion’s Belt. This is a battle between me an Tiago that we had finished yesterday. You can use the control above the battle field to move the units and see our moves.

It’s work in progress, but at least you can get a first look into the battles of Orion’s Belt

(Embedded battle after the break)

Fallout Retrospective

Writing the previous post i found out another game retrospective. It’s wasn’t a blockbuster, but it was one of the RPGs that i most enjoyed playing because of the number of turnouts an features that the game had. The game is Fallout and here is his history (Video after the break):

Warcraft Retrospective

Warcraft is, with a doubt, one of the first Real Time Strategy (RTS) of the new generation.

It have so success since it was released in January 15 1994, that 3 versions were and several expansions were release and created a Lore that brought to live the biggest Massive Multiplayer Online game ever created: World of Warcraft.

Because of the success of the Warcraft universe, Game Trailers decided to made a documentary called Warcraft Retrospective. The first part, called Drums of War can be seen below.

Double Click in a Html Select (List Item)

Double click is a feature that can useful when you build a Site. Almost every element can have a double click event. It’s usage is very simple:

<div ondblclick=’alert(”Hello”)’>Hello</div>

Test DoubleClick Here

Elements like element of a list item (select) should also have support for double click. But some browsers don’t support it (Like Internet Explorer). So the strategy is always had the event to the parent and, in that event, react according to the element clicked:

<select id='listItem' multiple="true">
	<option value="hello">Hello</option>
	<option value="hello2">Hello2</option>
</select>

Javascript Code using Mootools

$("listItem").addEvent('dblclick',function(evt){
	var v = this.selectedIndex;
	alert(v.value);
});

Dawn of War II

I Love dawn of war. Was one of the last RTS where i spend some good hours in. Unfortunately there was only the space Marines campaign in the original version fact that disappointed me. Meanwhile several expansions were released but i never played any of them. But for the looks, they are very good (maybe it can be a good game to spend the weekend playing).

Dawn of War 2 is expected to be released in the Spring 2009. For the looks of the In Game Video, DOW2 will be very very good.

• Strategy has been improved .
• several RPG features have been inserted - you can catch items, improve your commanders, ask for reinforcements, you can cover your units in buidings and behind walls.
• powers can be used by the commanders - a very impressive orbital bombardment.

Check the official site at http://www.dawnofwar2.com/. There you have screenshots, videos and the Eldar trailer (cinematic, yes, but very good).

Certainly a game to test. In Game Video after the break.

Dragon Ball

Last week the teaser trailer of the movie Dragon Ball has leaked (his official release should be 13 October).

I’m very afraid of this movie. I’m a huge dragon ball fan and i’m afraid that the guys at fox don’t respect the soul of the animated series.

10 April 2009 we are all here to see if the movie will be what the fans are expecting or not. Meanwhile, here is the leaked teaser trailer.