Siege of Rozvir

Submission for GameDevTv Jam 2024

 

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How-to-Play

Story and Objective

 You manage Rozvir, a castle besieged by an unknown, overwhelming foe. How will make your stand in the face of inevitable demise?

• Survive as many waves of onslaught as you can, while managing your resources and castle upkeep.
  • You lose when:
    • You run out of Resources.
    • You fail to repel Enemy Attacking Wave.

Key Information

Enemy Waves

• Every fixed amount of Turns, an enemy wave happens, in increasing force.
• Prepare for it by building up your Defences.

 

Resources

• Running out of Food / Gold causes you to lose the game.

• Food (bread icon): Required to support Population. Each Population increases Food upkeep by 1.
• Gold (coin icon): Required to take some actions and support Defence. Each Defence increases Gold upkeep by 2.
• Population (humans icon): Required to generate resources.
• Defence (shield icon): Required to repel waves. You survive waves if you have more Defence than the wave's Attacking Power.

 

Turn Summary

• Each turn is a “Day”. During which you can take up to 3 different types of Actions.
  • Assign Population: Directs your Population to generate different kinds of resources. It is recommended to allocate your entire population each turn.
    • Farming: Generates Food
    • Commerce: Generates Gold
    • Repopulate: Generates Population (Requires 2 Population each tier). [Note: Additional Population adds to Food upkeep]

    • Train Soldiers: Consumes Population and Gold to produce Defence. [Note: Additional Defence adds to Gold upkeep]

       

  • Build Infrastructure: Use Gold to build infrastructure which provides bonuses to Resource Generation actions.
    • Build Farms: Bonuses to Food generation from Farming.
    • Build Markets: Bonuses to Gold generation from Commerce
    • Build Hospitals: Bonuses to Population generation from Repopulate

    • Build Barracks: Bonuses to Defence from Training Soldiers

       

  • Military Action: Various Actions to achieve different outcomes
    • Night Raid: Send Defence on a one-way trip to reduce the next enemy wave's Attacking Power. [Note: Sacrificed Defence relieves Gold upkeep]
    • Secure Supplies: Send Defence on a one-way trip to secure random amount of Food and Gold. [Note: Sacrificed Defence relieves Gold upkeep] 
    • Hire Spies: Use Gold to purchase Intel about next enemy wave's Attacking Power. 3 incremental Tiers, with increasing accuracy of Intel. Purchases stay until end of week.

    • Bribe Enemies: Use Gold to convert enemy forces to your own. Increases Defence, while simultaneously reducing next enemy wave's Attacking Power. [Note: Additional Defence adds to Gold upkeep]

       

• After you confirm your choices for the day, accounting of the day's action happens.
  •  A random event triggers, granting bonuses or debuffs.
  • Upkeep is calculated.
  • Resource generation is calculated.

  • If you run out of Food or Gold, you lose.

     

• Every set amount of turns, an enemy attacking wave happens.
  • You survive if you have sufficient Defence to repel them.
  • Else, you lose.

 

Controls

• Fully-playable via Mouse/ Touch

 

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Developers

• noitcani from busride studios (Programming)
• passivisitefforts (Music, SFX, Lore)

 

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Acknowledgements

• All Music and SFX by PassivistEfforts

Font

• IM Fell English
  • https://fonts.google.com/specimen/IM+Fell+English

• LimeGloryCaps Font
  • https://www.fontspace.com/limeglorycaps-font-f13413

UI Assets

• Kenney Fantasy UI Borders
  • https://kenney.nl/assets/fantasy-ui-borders

CC0 Photos

• Brown Castle Under a Starry Sky
  • Eberhard Grossgasteiger
  • https://www.pexels.com/photo/brown-castle-under-a-starry-sky-1699020/

• Brown Wooden Bench on Sidewalk during Night Time
  • Markus Spiske
  • https://www.pexels.com/photo/brown-wooden-bench-on-sidewalk-during-night-time-12...

• Battle of Arsuf
  • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schlacht_von_Arsuf.jpg

• Aert van der Neer: English: Burning Castle Before a City
  • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neer_private_Burning_castle.jpg

• Frederiksborg on fire 
  • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frederiksborg_on_fire_02.jpg

CC4 Photos

• Eilean Donan at Dusk
  • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eilean_Donan_at_Dusk.jpg
  • Syxaxis Photography
  • Modulated to Grayscale

Sound Assets

• Epic Action Drums by Psystein
  • https://www.storyblocks.com/audio/stock/epic-action-drums-hizv7dnsdki6otjb4.html
  • Altered and incorporated into battle theme