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Haha, heavily inspired by you!

“Der Teufel steckt im Detail…” as we Germans tend to say. I reworked the resource icon overlay a bit, and everything feels much cleaner and more readable from just that small change…

And I added placeholder sounds. XD

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Haha, it's just work in progress, but it is there.

Spent a few more hours on tweaking the options… but hey, slow and steady—the game’s taking shape!

Still not sure if these details belong on the Steam page, or if this is just premium procrastination 😅

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After the second version for selecting an option was crap (and I was frustrated with my process), I changed my approach. It was way more fun and I like the results much more.

“Work smarter, not harder” is easy to say, but hard to do.

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Who could have guessed that fonts are such a big rabbit hole?!

Luckily, I got help, and today I replaced the default font. It looks and feels so much better now.

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I love the new mountains. They’re still not finished, but they’re so much better than before. It’s interesting how small changes can change everything.

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Uh nice, so it's not only me starting in the darker corner! 😅

In contrast to my expectation, I discovered that brighter colors do actualy not kill me. XD

Is the new version to bright?

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Still battling my personal end boss: color and atmosphere.

What do you think of the more colorful version? I’m always scared it’ll look like a mobile game… 😅

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Sorry, you can dm me now. Im not locked in yet. But I thought of some stylized or abstract art style.

Hey Artists!
Looking for someone (no ai) who can help me out with a layered Steam capsule art, logo/title and few ingame screens for King's Edict, an minimalist 4X multiplayer game which releases later this year. DM with portfolio and a rough price point! #gamedev #indiedev #gameart #artist #noai

Hope you all had a great christmas and "guten Rutsch" into the new you?! After a break and some rest, I now started working on animations and preperations for the trailer.

Here is the start game animation. What do you think about it?

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The visualization takes the id as well and fetches the tile data to display. With that structure it was easy to swap visualization from 2D to 3D. And as this game is a multiplayer game, it makes it quite easy to spread changes to the clients.

There is a class Hex (Logic), which calculates world to cell positions and neighbours. The tile data is accessed by ids in a hash map. For the cursor position I cast a ray against a plain, take the world position, convert it to a cell position.

I did this in another game as well and struggled a bit. This time I split up data, logic and visualization. Which made it much simpler.

Save 60% on Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim on Steam Build an empire in a single sitting. All the strategy of a classic 4X in a faster format, which also shines in multiplayer.

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Awesome mini 4X game where you can play against others. I love that each round is under 1h. So you can play it without having to spend days.

Oh, nice reference! Overall I would rather put it towards Ozymandias, but with direct action on the board. For me the early game still has some catan vibes despite the gameplay is completely different. But I can't fully point out why.

The clouds don’t like my cursor anymore.
What a silly thing to include in a turn-based strategy game…

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Uhh great idea. I need to try that!

Looks cool! Guess having a hotbar to quickly change weapons would be awesome.

Played around with shaders and ended up with some clouds for my game.

What do you think of clouds in strategy games? Cool or to confusing/obfuscating?

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Oh, undo until something is revealed is interesting. Did not thought about that.

Added an undo button for the last action only.
I’m conflicted: choices should matter, but misclicks shouldn’t.

What do you think, undo in turn-based games — yes or no?

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Steal stuff, get happier! 🤣

I’ve added looting of building improvements. All you need is a boat, a few units, and some juicy, not-too-well-defended tiles from your neighbour.

As a hopelessly greedy strategy player, I don’t see how this could backfire...

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It's so awesome to see other people create maps in my game. They are so different from how mine and I can learn so much about level design from them.

What a banger, thx @citrionmc.bsky.social !

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Trying to make unique understandable buildings...

Do you understand what this one is about?!

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Thanks for hosting #TurnBasedThursday!

Working on a compact #4x multiplayer game with short sessions (20-40min). It combines chill economic growth at the beginning with unforgiving tactical wars to win the game.

Getting closer to a vertical slice with every day.

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No public demo yet, as it is currently multiplayer only. But if you are keen, you can join the discord. We have a playtest session every week.