In Kingdom By The Sea you are the ruler of a small island. It’s your job to grow that island and its people by expanding your territory, developing the land and increasing your riches.
~ How to play ~
1. You start with a house and some resources (people, gold, wood and food)
2. Click on a tile to develop it. Developing it will turn it into farms, clear the land or mines.
3. Once developed it will produce additional resources for your kingdom.
4. The game is over in 20-30 years (depending on how long you randomly live for) or when all of your people die.
5. At the end you get a score based on how good of a leader you were.
Nice work Jesse! You were a big inspiration in getting me to participate in LD34 with your Lynda.com tutorials. Thanks for everything you do. Hope you make a tutorial in making a game like this. =)
Mike, glad you liked my Lynda courses and I was thinking of turning something like this into a book. Probably too complex for videos but I love making strategy games like this. Good luck with your own game, I'll be sure to check it out!
Hey Jesse, we met at the Berlin Talk & Play and talked about Warrior of Dragons quite a bit. You sure do like the deadly RNG don't ya? :P
First game I got two plagues in 4 turns and died after getting my first farm. In my second game I spawned with only a forest next to me, but thankfully no plagues, so I survived the 4-5 turns it takes to develop my only piece of land into a farm. I languish with one villager for a few more turns, get my second farm, then I get a plague twice in a row and it's GG.
Warboys, nice to see you again and thanks for playing. I noticed that plagues come up way too often. Also I have to tweak the way people work when building and having a surplus of food so you can grow quicker. Thanks for the feedback!
Very cool game. Really liked the art style and randomness of the events. Only thing I would add is skippable dialogue because some text keeps recurring.
At first it seems really hard to get anything done, especially if your population gets reduced to one by plague early on. It's a little unclear exactly how population growth works. Overall, pretty good.
You captured the gameboy feeling very good, also with the music. What I didn't get was how you could tell land had been developed. (I only got, that you could develop the same tile multiple times after playing once and then reading the instructions later ;) )
One game random was really mean to me, in the first 3 rounds (I think) everyone died of random events.
Hey, this was really fun! Has a good balance, and I like the way the maps generate procedurally. There was a good balance too - never got a map without a gold mine. Consider adding a button to make dialog boxes disappear, and maybe adding a way for us to prevent pirates and plagues. Like, build walls or hospitals? Just suggestions - overall I really like it!
Cool little game! It took me a little bit to figure out what all of the variables were on the left hand side. I think maybe some pictures or a hover over tutorial would have been nice. Also there was a corner on my map that I couldn't get to at one point. :P
Wow, it feels like such a polished little strategy game for Ludum Dare. Really well done! I couldn't figure out how the food and population growth tied together, but was very addictive!
I like the concept, but the systems weren't apparent to me at all (it might be worth mentioning that i'm not much of a strategy game player). I don't really know what was producing what resources, so i didn't see any point to developing anything other than for exploration's sake, and lost interest once the island was fully revealed. Love the aesthetic though, and it's a solid entry, just didn't grab me personally.
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First game I got two plagues in 4 turns and died after getting my first farm. In my second game I spawned with only a forest next to me, but thankfully no plagues, so I survived the 4-5 turns it takes to develop my only piece of land into a farm. I languish with one villager for a few more turns, get my second farm, then I get a plague twice in a row and it's GG.
ARGGGH!
Indie L thanks for the feedback on the art. 2DHeroes did it and I just re-used it from my last LD game ;)
Very cool microstrategy. Solid and cool.
Also liked random world generation :)
It's always a cool feature!
What I didn't get was how you could tell land had been developed. (I only got, that you could develop the same tile multiple times after playing once and then reading the instructions later ;) )
One game random was really mean to me, in the first 3 rounds (I think) everyone died of random events.
Overall a freh idea, good job :)
Consider adding a button to make dialog boxes disappear, and maybe adding a way for us to prevent pirates and plagues. Like, build walls or hospitals? Just suggestions - overall I really like it!
I agree about dismissing dialogs more quickly - maybe click anywhere to dismiss. I'd also appreciate a hover state when picking tiles.
Nice job though! :)