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Version 0.0.2

The Royal Guard
A browser game made in HTML5

I have just updated The Royal Guard with the following changes:

Bugfixes

  1. Slight improvement to end game detection. The game should only end in a failure if:
    • An enemy royal enters the throne room uncontested or if more enemies are in the throne room with contesting royals.
    • You send your own monarch to jail.
    • The deck empties twice and you haven't let at least one of your monarchs into the throne room.
  2. Fixed issue with overlapping audio.
  3. Incidentally fixed the >2 question bug. Though this should also be fixed if I return the game to a multi-card draw.

Features

  • Updated the game to draw only 1 card instead of 2 - allowing the questions and answers UI to always be visible.
  • Rearranged the interface so everything is visible on screen at once (related to previous point.)
  • Added more variety of colour to the interface.
  • Added tooltips to some of the interface to try and help onboard players.
  • Made the card count hint dynamic. When cards are revealed either in jail or the throne room they are removed from the card count.

Future Updates

  • Further improvements to the logic of the game so it's less luck based and easier to detect issues with peoples' stories.
  • I want to potentially give the player extra abilities/checks if they get a monarch into the throne room. For example the ability to ask an extra question or extend the number of times cards come around.
  • Add settings for volume etc.

Other

  • Given how different the game is now I will shortly upload a new project with the original HTML build for comparison of the original jam submission.
  • I will need to update the current page to reflect the new rules.

Files

  • the-royal-guard-html5.zip 15 MB
    Version 0.0.2
  • theRoyalGuard-drentsoftGames-osx-0.0.1.x86_64.zip 38 MB
    Version 0.0.2
  • the-royal-guard-linux-universal.zip 27 MB
    Version 0.0.2
  • the-royal-guard-win.zip 25 MB
    Version 0.0.2
  • the-royal-guard-html5.zip 15 MB
    Version 0.0.2
  • theRoyalGuard-drentsoftGames-osx-0.0.1.x86_64.zip 38 MB
    Version 0.0.2
  • the-royal-guard-linux-universal.zip 27 MB
    Version 0.0.2
  • the-royal-guard-win.zip 25 MB
    Version 0.0.2
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