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Oberons court is a tile-based strategy game, wich is now in the pre-production phase. The core gameplay mechanic is to take an easy to control RTS where you need to occupy hexagonal tiles, but combine this with modern AI pathfinding and gameplay elements like supply lines and alchemy. You will create units and variations by mixing resources found in the tiles. This way every army can be unique and every game is different. 8

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An update on and explanation off resources and reliquaries.

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So lets have a look at resources and reliquaries.

There's 5 flavours of resources to be found, blood, essence,steel, bone and a fifth souls.These come in reliquaries, ancient containers and links to the real world.

These resources are normally hidden, but can be summoned by the Father Longlegs unit (or the denmother, not yet decided)..

Once a summoning ritual is performed a relevant Reliquary is raised from the sands.. Relevant to the location and tile (little hints in the environment will indicate what could be found)..

A relic will provide either resources at a fixed interval, but only as long as father longlegs or sub-unit is performing the ritual.. There is also the option to immediately claim the full resource and convert it to a special ability ingredient for the unit creation alchemy..

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In the Screen I've placed in order the first designs for the reliquary, expect a video with the summoning ritual and raising animations soon.

there's the "tree of knowledge", "battlefield relic", "bone totem"," Saints reliquary" and finally the grave.. Now the first four stand for essence, steel, bone and blood. The grave stands for the resting place of a soul (I'm thinking a bit of crusades lore, foot soldiers, knights and kings from that era).. Each grave is protected and for instance a Kings grave will be a End level objective.

Once the grave is raised it can claimed for an intact soul. An intact soul will be a unit template, a shape,creature type and base abilities related to the strength of the soul .

Once you have a soul, you can mix it with the other resources to create a new creature to be summoned, a twisted shade of the original knight, footsoldier or king. A chained shadow...

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NobleKale
NobleKale

Sounds like an interesting mechanic - are you worried about ensuring a good balance of availability for each resource, or is this something the game will autobalance?

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tomassala

Initially the resources will be hardcoded in each map.. or at least a chance to find percentage. based on the specific tile.. The precise algorithm I haven't started on yet,, but autobalance is an option, but i'd rather level design it to get the flow of a level just right..

I have a simple level generator, and I might put time in that, and the generated level would require more complex resource code. For now I'm focusing on creating a working system ready for level designing and a first campaign. But that's about a month away i'm guestimating..

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