Monuments

Erect 4 monuments while taking care of your peasants and fending off any fiends!

Every time a new building is built its price increases. The same is with soldiers and peasants. The more excess food you hold the more likely traitors are to attack you

Basically a more chaotic version of Stronghold with Downwell’s aesthetic look.

But…

…how the hell do you even play this?

BASICS

• Click your soldiers and the king to move them around
• Placing your mouse over the castle shows you the amount of coins, excess food, peasants and the king’s health
• Click a building to access its upgrade/build menu (try it out on the castle first)
• Orchards (trees) provide 3 units of food per day to your castle
• Each house summons 2 peasants and provides a way of buying more
• Mines can only be built on rocks
• Miners can be employed in the mines
• Soldiers can be recruited in the barracks
• Walls stop enemies from walking through
• Walls can be upgraded to monuments. Building 4 of them wins the game.
• The cave on the bottom periodically spawns enemies

CASH & FOOD (i.e. the confusing part)

• Each peasant and soldier needs 1 piece of food per day to sustain themselves
• Each peasant pays 1 coin every day
• Miners require 1 extra piece of food for a total of 2 per day to sustain themselves, but they pay out with 2 coins
• Each soldier needs to be paid 1 coin per day
• If there’s not enough food to sustain your village the first ones to go hostile are the miners. Then the peasants will follow, and lastly the soldiers.
• Excess food from the previous day gets deleted, meaning that waiting will not get you any extra apples.
• The more excess food you have the more often traitors will spawn

TIPS

• DON’T place 2 orchards at the beginning of your game. Just don’t do it man.
• Keep an eye out for prices of crucial items. You don’t want to be caught with your pants down or overpay for your troops, now do you?
• Quickly place all 4 walls. You may try to block the traitors’ cave with them. When you succeed just remember that traitors can’t see 2 feet ahead of themselves.
• Look out for your food supply. Too much excess food will lure in the traitors while too little will make your peasants riot.

TOOLS USED

• Game Maker: Studio (code, sprites)
• LMMS (music)
• SFXR (sound effects)
• My hands (keyboard input)