King's Fortress
A twist on the 'survivors' genre!
- Build walls, place archers and knights and other buildings.
- Zombies and enemies will swarm the king with increasing numbers.
- How long can you last?
[HOW TO PLAY]
This game is meant to be played with a mouse and keyboard.
- Use Arrow Keys or WASD to move the camera.
- Use Scroll Wheel to zoom in or out.
- Press the number keys to change cursor.
- Defeat enemies to gain gold to place better units.
- Some units will upgrade, the longer they stay alive.
What each cursor does:
- Chop down trees, repair walls.
- Place walls.
- Place archers. Will fire arrows automatically at closest enemies. Arrows can travel over walls.
- Place training dummy. Will attract monsters.
- Place Knight. Will move toward nearest enemies and attack. Health regenerates slowly.
- Place house. Houses generate wood every couple of seconds.
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We really hope you enjoy our game. We will be updating it periodically with new content. Please let us know what you'd like to see in this game, or any suggestions you have in the comments below!
Development log
- Update #2: New enemy and balance adjustments!Mar 06, 2024
- Update #1Mar 06, 2024
- Game launched!Mar 06, 2024
Comments
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Hey, I played after Update#1.
The grace period is really nice and lets you get set up to not lose instantly. Perhaps the player could start with a set amount of wood and then have less grace period. It would help remove having to do the initial tree clear before building every game.
I know this is probably frustrating to hear but I found that it's now way too easy. If you survive the beginning it becomes incredibly easy. I'm at the point where I have gone AFK and left the game running for about 40 minutes and I'm still alive (currently at 45k gold :D), going to keep it running and see where I get to, if I can even die at this point. It seems that enemy scaling might not be working properly or needs to be tweaked to be a bit stronger as the game goes on.
There are some performance issues. Once I spammed down a few knights and had a decent amount of archers on the board, the game slowed down significantly, making it very hard to navigate and place objects. Also once the game was lagging, I could somehow place things on top of each other (like having a wall, dummy and archer all on the same tile).
Some tips for those struggling:
-The main thing making me lose was not blocking the first few bombers with a wall further away from my king.
If they got close it would take out all my first archers and then all was lost.
-BLOCK THE BOMBERS, seriously always keep a little wood to place a wall down and block these guys from ruining everything, once you're set-up its not as important, but in the early game its 100% necessary.
-Let your king take a few hits early if you have to. Don't block the path to the king with your units. Instead let the king take a few hits while you finish getting a good defense up. If you make the units protect the king they'll keep dying and you'll never get enough units out to survive.
Overall I really enjoyed this game and I'm looking forward to see where you take it!
Thanks for sharing this with us :)
Thanks for your feedback and kind words! The next update will be focusing on optimization and difficulty. We did notice that the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction in terms of how easy the game is, so we'll be working on that.
We'll implement stronger enemy scaling health and also a new enemy type to shake things up! Thanks for checking us out.
EDIT: Your thoughts about the grace period are great. I think we will reduce the grace period but start out the player with a decent amount of wood :D
For anyone trying out the game, here are a couple tips!
Thank you so much for such a detailed comment. You make a good point about the game's difficulty. I'm usually able to survive at least five minutes by rushing four archers around my king and then making a diamond shaped box. Early game a box with archers is king! (No pun intended)
We will tone down the spawning of the monsters and see if it helps. In a future update we will also have a system where the longer the archer and knight is alive, their 'rank' will increase. Giving them more health and attack power!
Again, thank you for your feedback and we will be looking at everything you've said. We are new to making games, so many of these things are not obvious to us. Have a good one!
EDIT: Archers can shoot over walls. Maybe I will make this clear in the instructions.
yea we saw that right away lol...the archers die too fast still. At one point we had archers and walls boxing in the king. It went to hell real fast even with that set up lol.