Strategic RPS

Strategic RPS (strategic rock paper scissors) is a space based multiplayer real time strategy game.

A simple, easy to learn rts experience.

The game is based around a portal that can transport send one ship at a time. The goal for each player is to protect your portal, and to destroy all other portals in the game. As the player, you can choose to receive any of the following three ship types to be send through next:

As you might have guessed at this point, rock ships defeat scissors ships, scissors ships defeat paper ships and paper ships defeat rock ships. Easy as pie!

So are these really the only units in the game? Well yes! But to make things slightly more interesting, it is possible to make use of the environment in the form of meteors. You can occupy meteors using ships, making them a larger, more powerful but very slow fourth unit.

In order to involve more people in the early stages of development, I am releasing pre-alpha versions of the game. Feedback is always welcome!

strategicrps V0.13.x windows (Requires Java)
(This is a pre-alpha release, please do not expect a full game)

Even though the game is in development as a pet project, I am planning on releasing the final version before the end of 2019. Stay tuned.

Mouse

• Use scroll wheel to zoom in/out.
• Use zoom in/out to move the camera.
• Left mouse button to select unit(s). Hold to create selection box.
• Right mouse button to move units to a new position. Hold to create formation.
• Double click to select all units of a certain type

Keyboard

• T (Toggle): toggle formations
• R (Rock): Rock ships go to front
• P (Paper): Paper ships go to front
• S (Scissors): Scissors ships go to front
• Q: See selected ship ranges
• W: Wait. Ships will wait until “W” is pressed again
• Shift: Queue commands. Use in combination with selection to append a selection.
• Ctrl + S: Select all ships on the screen
• Ctrl + A: Select all ships in game
• Ctrl + Z: Select all ships of the types you already have selected
• Ctrl + #: Create group
• #: Select group
• H/Home: Go back to base
• I: Rotate screen left
• O: Rotate screen right
• L: Restore screen rotation
• M: Neutral rotation
• Tab/End: Show overview of the game
• Ctrl + F#: Save camera position
• F#: Move camera to saved position

Current Version

Older Versions

Even though the game is in development as a pet project, I am planning on releasing the final version before the end of 2019. Stay tuned.

Near Future

• Minor bugfixes:
  • Chat doesn’t work
  • Game sometimes crashes
• Improve robustness of the multiplayer environment
• Improve ingame tips

Distant Future

• Tutorial
• Campaign
• Improve menu look/feel
• Gamemodes