howtoplay.md

What is this?

This is meisterfuu's and elektropapst's entry for the 15th LudumDare anniversary (38)

In total we participated in three GameJams:

• LibGDX Jam
  • meisterfuu, elektropapst
• LudumDare 35
  • meisterfuu, arse, elektropapst
• LudumDare 38
  • meisterfuu, elektropapst

How to Play

After we started the game, the screen looks like this:

We play on an 8x8 Hex grid, with our spawn located in the top left corner (AI-opponent bottom right). The current amount of warriors for a single Hex tile is shown by the corresponding number (e.g. 10). For each game tick our castle "produces" new warriors (max. 10 at the beginning) which we can send across the field.

Let's send some warriors from our spawn (namely the Hex Castle) to accessible tiles. Our empire could look like this:

As you can see, we captured two windmills, each increasing our castle's maxpopulation by 2 (for each windmill). So our maximum warriors in our castle is 10+2+2=14. We can also send warriors from other Hex tiles by selecting it with the right mouse button. Remember that each captured Hex tile must have at least 5 warriors until you can select and send from that tile.

Let us learn how to move our warriors in the next section:

Controls

We control the game entirely using our mouse:

	Key	Function
	Left mouse click	Send a single warrior of the selected Hex
	Left mouse long press	Send half of the selected Hex's warriors
	Right mouse click	Select another Hex (The arrow indicates the currently selected Hex)
	Left or right mouse drag	Drag the map
	Scroll	Zoom map

Buildings

As already mentioned above, capturing tiles with buildings can boost you:

Image	Building	Found on	Explanation
	Castle		Your Hex Castle spawn
	Sand house		Increases your Hex Castle's spawnrate
	Desert Tent		Increases your Hex Castle's spawnrate
	Hangar		Increases all units movementspeed
	Military Tent		Increases all units movementspeed
	Windmill		Increases your Hex Castle's maxpopulation
	Tavern		Increases your Hex Castle's maxpopulation
	Skyscraper Glass		Increases your Hex Castle's tickrate
	Skyscraper Wide		Increases your Hex Castle's tickrate

...where...

• spawnrate = Numbers of warriors spawned in each tick
• movementspeed = Speed of warriors
• maxpopulation = Maximum amount of warriors in the Hex Castle spawn
• tickrate = How fast the warrior spawn ticks

Fortunately we can see a legend located at the window's bottom border, so we don't need to remember all buildings and their effects:

Goal

It is as simple as it sounds:

Eliminate your AI-opponent by capturing all AI's Hex tiles. This includes all AI captured tiles.

Thanks for reading and have fun with this game :)

— meisterfuu & elektropapst

Credits

We are incredibly thankful for the assets from:

• Graphics: http://www.kenney.nl/
• Music: http://www.bensound.com/