DOS Games Discussion

I just read the whole interview with Google Translate help as well as comments. Looks very interesting. I was previously searching for articles about Horde which would be written in English but I guess there is much more in Russian. Anyways, they mentioning that there were created 7639 sprites, so I...

It has been over two years. How is Horde play and info finding going? Anything new during these years happened in terms of posts, blogs, etc.? I some time ago found that there were some development of Horde III happening by Miloslav (i.e. https://www.facebook.com/hordecitadel3/) but not sure at whic...

Sounds interesting. Similar story happened to me - I memorised this Windows 95 sound in Horde, used for item pick up. When I hear it somewhere (there was several times in our sport centre), I am thinking "ok, today I am going to play Horde again" :) I am very keen to find out these Horde a...

Kind of interesting. What sound libraries could be potential candidates for these 1995 - 2005 period? I.e. I am trying to find out where these nature and ambient sounds in Horde can be coming from

Yep, I noticed that. However, I was unable to find out where Horde developers took ambient and nature sounds from, including this wolf howl, which I found on soundbible: http://soundbible.com/130-Werewolf-Howl.html There are also some bird, crickets/frogs, wind and some other ambient forest sounds, ...

Do you guys recognise some Horde nature sounds here:
http://soundbible.com/2090-Night-Time-Storm.html

Sure, here are some screenshots. Knights: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/248943005/uRTS_Horde_screens/knights.png castle: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/248943005/uRTS_Horde_screens/castle.png sawmill and some other similarities: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/248943005/uRTS_Horde_scr...

Hey folks, all these months I was making similar game to Horde, which now has a playable version: https://apps.facebook.com/urts_demo/ This is very simple game, where you have barracks and can spawn knights or archers. And it's 3d and running on web. The similarity to Horde is that it has similarly ...

I have a few questions now, which I need to answer for my game version, which I am creating in Unity. So, these would be: What pathfinding algorithm do you think is used in Horde? It looks quite fast, as it is working with several hundreds units as DOS game from 2000 th's... How they work out with d...

Thanks, now it is much more clear about copyright things. So I will do something what will be similar to Horde in Unity with 3d and as much realism as possible. Anyways, if somebody would be interested to help with this game development, post me a message. Continuing about Horde: Northern Wind, I ju...

well, I think I have scent about playability and realism. Many developers complaining that it is hard to fill huge maps in such level that game would be intensively playable. So they deciding to take smaller maps. However, I think that this problem is not caused by map size, but more by leak of idea...

umm, it would be one of several ways, but I am not sure if it would be correct. Many things in the game are scaled not very proportionally. For example human size is very similar to tree size. The main issue why I worried about scaling for global map is that I am not sure if such large rivers can be...

oh, ok. So coming back to unanswered questions, does anyone have sense how large these horde maps can be in kilometers?

well, I just sent message to MrFlibble. By the way, I can't recognise the map in screenshots of MobyGames. Which place is that?

Oh, and parts 6 and 7 are uploaded now.

Great. Part 3 and 4 are in.

yeah, dosraider, that is true. Part 2 is in now, so who finished part 1, can start part 2 :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxJotuQ7dpg I created a playlist for these videos that it would be not needed always to post individual video URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFcA-r_r2RQ&list=PLOBSjXd5...

Great to hear. I just started recording and uploading videos for Horde: Northern Wind. This will be slow and detailed walkthrough. The first video is already made: http://youtu.be/tFcA-r_r2RQ It take 2 hours and about 40 minutes for the first map walkthrough. Map 2 and 3 are also already made and I ...

Thanks for so informative answer MrFlibble. Well, talking about Horde maps, there are 3 levels of maps: level 1: the most global map, which is shown at the very beginning of both games. Horde:Northern Wind is set into left-bottom corner of the map and taking about 1/9 fraction of this map. Citadel i...

Thanks for answering. If it is really made that player would explore the story, then it looks really very great. I played horde series like 5 times from start to finish and each time I am playing, I finding some new elements in the storyline. This think is very inspiring and I am quite often compari...

well, in abandonia it was mentioned that the game is set in the world of Semirech'ye (Russian for "Land of the Seven Rivers"): http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/showthread.php?t=25109 So I was interested if there are any manuscripts about this story remaining? Another question, which I got ...