Battle of Flags and Codename 2024 Developer diary

Aidanmatt72 · June 2, 2024, 10:47am

While yes nobody may play Battle of Flags and i very much doubt anyone will ever play Codename 2024 (name reveal coming soon) i still want to put up my experiences and game design ideas for people to see

each volume will contain my personal viewpoints on a segment of both games and occationally a story from past experiences

Aidanmatt72 · June 2, 2024, 7:13pm

Volume 1 Map Deisgn
This is the existing Battle of Flags map

if you look carefully you will see a lot of tall buildings and planks bridging them together this is because when i was designing the 2023 relaunch of the game i wanted to put an emphesis on verticality especially after all of the previous stuff that i have made that is just flat
e.g. Battle of Flags Classic Season 6 where outside of the bridges everything is flat and the map was boring with only 1 location of intrest

another point i also wanted to make was to keep the buildings simple with very limited furniture as

I want the buildings to be useful in combat
too much detail breaks the style of battle of flags
I want battle of flags to run on many devices
so that’s what i did with the reboot i also wanted the map to have stuff going on without becoming the mess known as battle of flags classic seasons 16 and 17 (season 16 pictured below with a modified lighting system and differant lighting engine for clarity)

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which leads into the map design for codename 2024
It’s a prerelease version of the battle of flags season 11 map but with major revisions
top codename 2024 (as of 2nd june 2024) bottom Battle of Flags Season 11 January prerelease map

what you see isn’t much differance outside of an obvious graphical overhaul but i can promise you now 80% of the map’s areas are differant in one or more ways and optimised for a Free for all PVP experience
i have 4 goals with the design of this games map

make it big
make it fun
use the map to it’s advantage
make it special for launch day

also the map design has made me realise how i can impliment some intresting twists and turns every round (more on that in volume 2 coming next week which will also include launch details and a full map reveal and news on a limited time event in battle of flags)

end of volume 1

Aidanmatt72 · June 19, 2024, 8:33pm

Volume 2 Codename 2024 Beta Launch Plans

The public Beta launches: 6th July 2024

Questions and Answers

But why is it a beta?
I have BIG ideas and i took a week off of working on the game (i’m free for the summer now though)

What BIG ideas
more on that later on

map reveal
RIGHT BELOW

the map

Welcome to Arena 11 (in this timeline)

and now for highlights

This map is designed with FUN in mind
here we have ramps to enable usage of the vehcles to jump across fences and gaps

there are also a ton of easter eggs such as this subtle referance to a certain game developer that has been “corroded” by steam

also i said i wanted to make the map special for launch day
this is because the 6th july 2024 will be my 10th anniversary on roblox
so i plan to have referances to older roblox projects i made AND atleast 1 tool per year that roblox has added to studio in the last 10 years used as part of the game (and i’ll make it obvious)

and now for the BIG ideas
DYNAMIC EVENTS (not live events… yet)
i’m talking in the middle of battle a boulder may crash down that can destory vehcles
a tree may fall and provide cover
or a door may even open

they are NOT ready for the beta launch in july but i plan to have the first wave of dynamic events out early august

Lootpool
Same as Battle of Flags at first (with the addition of land vehcles) will diviate eventually

oh and the name
Operation Decade is the name for now
just makes sense in my opinion

Aidan out

Aidanmatt72 · June 19, 2024, 8:37pm

Volume 2b

Battle of Flags mini event
4th july - 13th july there will be fireworks on the map FOR NUMEROUS REASONS