Game-development Log (7. Attack and explosions)

1. Introduction + WebAPI for map tiles
2. Visual Studio Online
3. Loading data to Vector Tiles
4. Rendering image tiles
5. CDN Caching for map tiles
6. Adding Units and Basic Interaction
7. Attack and Explosions
8. Performance checkpoint
9. Bootstraping
10. Real-time with SignalR
11. Persistence and Authentication
12. Scaling up the loader process
13. Polishing the experience

Work-in-progress: https://site-win.azurewebsites.net

On my last post I've added interactivity to the units. On this post I'm taking it further by adding an attack option and corresponding explosions :)

First of all I've included an extra tank on the map that's not controllable by the player. Hence, a nice target to be attacked (although non-destructible).

The attack is triggered in the same way as a regular movement, by dragging the unit. When on-top of another unit it changes to an attack cursor, showing additional info.

I've implemented the explosion using the particle lib at http://scurker.com/projects/particles/

To place the explosion on Bing Maps I've used the pushpin's "htmlContent" property to create a new canvas where the explosion is rendered.

I've also used a custom html pushpin to display the attack details. For now only the range isn't hardcoded.

And that's it for now.