I was inspired to try making a game similar to one of my childhood favorites "Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim".  Haven't decided on the art style yet, so for now it's just cubes. It'll probably still be cubes at release haha.

It's essentially an RTS where your units have a mind of their own. The player's control is quite... limited.
So far I've written design docs for a bunch of code and other stuff, implemented my frameworks for building and AI. Pretty much have been no-life'ing it since I started about 5 days ago. Hopefully I'm able to keep up the momentum.

Here's a hideous screenshot that won't make much sense:

Best of luck to the other combatants.

Majesty is a great game, good luck on modernising it. I definitely look forward to playing this, even if it is cubes :D

70 hours in and still strong, dodging those social obligations like I'm Muhammad Ali.

The game still looks like garbage BUT a lot of stuff has happened. Constructing & upgrading buildings, cube peasants, guards, various AI fixes, and just a bit of artwork.

I'm hoping to have the basics wrapped up this coming week, and then I shall focus on aesthetics. Admittedly that's not really my strong point but I'll at least try to have fun with it.

I totally understand the first problem! For me it's Path of Exile that does that :)

Hope to see you at the finish line!

SUBMISSION COMPLETE

That was a wild ride. Clocked 187 hours and 5 minutes by the end of it.

Here's a rough breakdown of where I spent my time:

• Programming: 56%
• Art: 12%
• Planning/other: 32%

Regrets:

• Not spending more time on art
• Not enough levels
• Found a huge flaw in my code design at the last minute that's affecting stability, too late to fix
• No sound, no animations

Was fun! Can't wait to play the other games.