This little browser-based strategy is painfully slow – so slow you can go to the post office, extricate yourself from having to talk to the old woman from next door, then make a cup of tea and still only have generated just enough resource to continue – yet it’s somehow utterly engrossing. As the title suggests, you have to break the tower at the far end of the island. You can only do this by placing buildings on the island, and eventually masons at the foot of the tower. That’s all the influence you have on the lives of the peons and warriors who populate the island, and who battle with the monsters that emanate from the tower. No, really, it’s got something. Try it. (And don’t accidentally click away from a twenty-minute game, as I just did. NoooOOOo.)
I found this minuscule treasure over on Indiegames.com.
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30 population 15 warriors.
Removed all the masons and the woodcutters [I guess I'll build cutters when I need 'em to keep the trees in check].
Now my people are in a harmonious relationship with their island, farming and harvesting.
I’ll leave it over night just to see what happens, although, I’m terrified that when I wake up tomorrow they’d have built a bustling metropolis around a statue of my face.
Wtf is using up my wood ??????
@All the eco-paradise builders: I cut down every tree, demolished every building, and left my 300 peons with a completely bare island aside from one mysterious statue (guard tower) in the middle. Now they just mill around at the shore, presumably licking algae off rocks to survive.
Cooooo, everyone at work is now wondering what it is too…. :D
30:49 19911 with 40/10
@James C that’s terrible.
I built 3 self sustaining industries.
Planters and woodcutting, farming and harvesting and the military.
I woke up this morning to find my perfectly balanced society still perfectly balanced.
The ancient legends about the great tower barely remembered by the elders and only used to scare the children when they played to close to the swathe of untouched impenetrable woodland to the south they call “the great forest”.
I LOVE this game.
It’s been running in the background for nearly 24 hours.
I love that there is very little in the way of change; I love that I can have things working perpetually and watch it effect the island.
There needs to be more! [more evil! more industry! more war! and religion and then religious war!]
The pace and perpetuity of the game is sublime.
Perfect casual gaming.
@Nimic, thanks for the tip. I realized what I was doing wrong. I thought the villagers treated the tower as a threat, so I was making lots of warriors; but they were actually treating it as a resource. So round 2, once I had a clear path, I destroyed my other Masons, and just built them around the tower. Won in just over an hour.
New High Score…What does that mean?…did i break it?
YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! ME IN FIRST PLACE!!! 10 MIN 52 SECONDS! GOGOGOGOGOGO!!
For a game created in less than 48 hours as part of a game dev competition, this is pretty awesome.
@Tur-Chan
they pulled all scores lower than ~20mins, I found that out when I got a 10 min 56 seconds time :(
It is pretty easy to modify the values for the resources, they are 4 bits apart somewhere in the browser, find one and the rest should be right next to it. It is pretty tough to get more than 500 characters due to them wandering about and the slowdown that comes with them.
I want bridge builders or more stuff to attack (wood fort?) Possibly build your own tower/wall and defend it from them?
Very cool game, they should open it to cheaters because there is going to be a minimum time even with cheating. (or just give us 3,000 resources and call it the unlimited easy version)
Amazing game for 48 hours though.
My best so far is 5 minutes 5 seconds, combined hack of 1,000 resources to start with and reduction of the tower to 1 stone worth from the beginning (as soon as I can find the resources the tower is pretty easy to find and manipulate <2mins).
Of all the resources when I win the only one under 1,000 is food at 955. I produced 16 guys total, I don’t think any were killed.
Strategy:
Leave trees to slow down the black dudes.
Build one domicile near the rocks and immediately destroy the guard tower.
Then strike out with a woodcutting lodge a short distance from the first rocks.
Try for a mason in the small clearing to the SW (if tower is at the top as North). It is kinda tough to get these little dudes to do what you want. But if you can get them to go the right direction it only takes a couple.
I only looked at the source to get the tower’s starting value, it is 80.
Even with the hacking it is a fun game, possibly because of it.
I don’t know what the minimum time would be without cheating, but it starts to look like very little if you can make the little guys do what you want.
How can you cheat and call it your best?
Brilliant game! Well balanced and challenging without being too difficult. Funny that one really don’t know how to complete the game, but had to explore!