Here’s a flash demo that makes an isometric “pyramid”:
Well, it’s really only a quarter of a pyramid, and they did a bad job making it even. Also, there are snakes everywhere.
You can press “space” to randomize what shows up!
Man, Flixel is easy to use.
A fun image to look at. I am designing the tiles that will make up the terrain and some of the defensive structures/creatures you can create.
A planning failure has left a nearby construction project almost complete, but the company that will be leasing it has very strong efficiency, water, energy, and security concerns that must be addressed.
As a building automation controls engineer, your job is to make this building smart enough to improve all of the above categories, which will save the leasing company money in the long run.
At your disposal are various kinds of sensors that can be used almost anywhere, and they can be used to control different aspects of the building to keep things running smoothly. You’ll have to design a robust system that can handle all 7 days of the week, including any special events or circumstances that may drastically raise or lower the amount of people present.
Gameplay items:
As the pharaoh’s lead pyramid design technician, you are tasked with creating the ancient world’s foremost anti-tomb-raider burial monument. You get to create the layout, dead ends, pitfalls, traps, and distractions to keep any robbers from making their way to the pharaoh’s final chamber.
As a renowned engineer, you have the ability to utilize ropes and weighted stones to create shifting or reactive paths to the burial chamber, and you will definitely need to use as many tricks as you can to succeed.
Every successful invader will be handily dispatched by the pharaoh’s mummy, but allowing too many will find you being subject to the mummy’s curse as well. If you perform well enough, you will be rewarded in the afterlife!
A hybrid between an engineering puzzle game and tower defense.
I updated my dominion site with a new MySql/PHP backend and scans from Dominion: Alchemy. Some of them are in other languages, pending better scans.
http://dominion.diehrstraits.com/
Enjoy!
Visual Spoiler: http://dominion.diehrstraits.com/
Text Spoiler: http://dominion.diehrstraits.com/list.html
In my spare time I’ve been working on a card game called Bastion where two players duke it out in a battle reminiscent of warfar in the 16th through 19th centuries. During this time period they had big solid fortresses, and an incredible variety of techniques for capturing those fortresses.
Here is a topic I started on GoodGamery to discuss the development of Bastion.
The core of the game has one player buying defenses while the other player tries to breach them. Most of the cards they use will be similar, except that the defender has access to a bunch of fortifications, while the attacker will use specialized units like miners, sappers, siege ladders, and so on.
Each of the units has a couple corresponding Combat cards, which represent maneuvers or tactics that the player’s troops use in battle. The more expensive units have access to more flexible or more powerful Combat cards, and specialized troops have specialized Combats. By moving all of the specialized rules for the units onto their combat cards, it keeps the units from having a bunch of special keywords, numbers, and abilities. Instead, they have only a cost and a health, and the rest gets to be artwork. All of the complicated stuff is on the combat cards, and since you only pick from a couple of those per turn, the combat plays out pretty simply.
Here are some basic strategies for Dominion.
Buy the best treasure you can afford each turn, or a Province. This is a basic strategy that will not win you many games, unless you’re playing against new players.
1-2: No buy
3-5: Buy silver
6-7: Buy gold
8+: Buy Province
Buy Smithy until you have 3 of them. Otherwise, buy the best treasure you can afford, or a Province. This will always beat Big Money, because Smithy is usually a much better buy at 4-5 coins than silver.
1-2: No buy
3: Buy Silver
4-5: Buy Smithy, limit 3
6-7: Buy Gold
8+: Buy Province
For turns 1 and 2, buy Chapel and Silver. After that, chapel away all coppers and estates you draw, while buying silvers and easing into another strategy, usually buying treasures and +card draw.
This strategy means forgoing most card buys other than Remodel. When you start out, getting a Silver and a Remodel are optimal buys. Then,make the following Remodels:
Estate -> Remodel
Remodel -> Gold
Gold -> Province (Once the game is close to ending, unless you can use the Gold to buy a Province that turn)
Good support cards include Cellar, Throne Room, Village, and Chapel, which all make your Remodels more reliable and more frequent.
Don’t buy too many actions that don’t themselves give +actions. Otherwise you’re at risk for drawing multiple actions when you can only play one of them.
When players start buying Provinces, carefully take note of how many each player has bought, and how many are left. Once there are about 1-2 provinces left per player, it’s time to stop buying cards that don’t give you +Victory, because there won’t be enough time to draw any new cards you buy.
