The Duke's Cartographer.

The World has changed a lot in five years, so much so that all of previous maps have been obsoleted and new ones need to be made. Explore the world and reconnect the cites so that commerce can flourish again. Though it's not as simple as drawing a few maps... ###

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Controls ###

WASD your way to victory!

Click on one of the flashing red boxes to leave the city. (No art, sorry)

You can fill your map by using the icons below the board.

If you've found at least 1 additional city to your starting one, before the start of a new week you can draw a path between them by dragging the red dots to score.

If the mouse isn't doing it for you, try the enter key.

You can get to the menu using escape.

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Things to know ###

Scoring is based on distance from relevant cites, 5 points per tile.

Plains subtract 1 point from the path, forests subtract 5 and mountains subtract 25;

At the start of each week (after you finish scoring), a large percentage of the map gets changed around.

during the middle of each week a small percentage of the map gets changed around.

Cities and landmarks will never move.

I did not get time to allow you to undo paths
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Bugs ###

There's a chance that a city can get surrounded by mountains. If the city you start in has no exits, I recommend you restart the game.

Because of the constantly changing map, and an oversight on my part, there's a chance that the barrier mountains at the edges will get swapped out. If you accidentally leave the boundary you can just come back in. Be advised though that there isn't space on the map for outer edges as you weren't supposed to get through them.
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Music credits ###

Harumachi - Pilgrimage https://pixabay.com/music/folk-pilgrimage-ancient-mediaeval-harp-174049/

Harumachi - The Foggy City https://pixabay.com/music/ambient-the-foggy-city-182401/

Aleksey Chistilin/Lexin_Music - Ancient World https://pixabay.com/music/adventure-ancient-world-118017/

Aleksey Chistilin/Lexin_Music - Lost in the Enchanted Woods https://pixabay.com/music/build-up-scenes-lost-in-the-enchanted-woods-191319/

JuliusH - The Lost Hero https://pixabay.com/music/main-title-the-lost-hero-epic-orchestra-trombone-and-chorus-3461/

JuliusH - The Lord https://pixabay.com/music/folk-the-lord-medieval-music-4239/