More late stage events would be good :)
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I would really like to see more opportunities for gold that aren't from chance or granny/fisherman situations. At the beginning of the game I really struggled with that and had to sacrifice happiness to be able to expand and since just haven't been able to keep that happiness and coin balance which is disappointing and frustrating.
I would like to see the ability to summon an advisor to the court, for example, summon the witch to have her appease the spirits (Because, as it is now, it's random, which isn't good for my coffers because she might show up before they get angry, she might not, she might not even show up until several days after the haunting has started to devastate the happiness of my kingdom, as well as it's coffers. The royal knight also seems to refuse to ask for the sword (Every time he comes by, it's to go on a dangerous adventure, and in this particular playthrough, he seems to be incredibly unlucky), and the thief hasn't come back. I'm starting to think that the thief isn't all that evil, and is the only way to kill the damn dragon.
Also, maybe add a little window that pops up from behind the dialogue box if someone is asking for money telling us exactly how much they're asking for. Only the little boy and the things over 100 gold seem to actually be told up front.
It's really annoying when the spirits get super upset and then the witch person doesnt come to offer me to appease them for like, 20 days. It should be scripted so that either just before the spirits get mad, or shortly after they do that she comes in to offer the ceremony. That way you don't end up going 25 days with angry spirits making you lose sadness constantly.
I played this for a few hours and have to say I love so much about this game, the art is cute, the game has potential, and it's nice to see your kingdom progress.
one thing I would like to see implemented the most is more character development, have characters grow over time depending on your choices. maybe the "sneaky girl" could change her ways with the right choices, maybe little Timmy could become a spoiled brat if you always give him gold, or maybe the wizard will get better at magic if you keep letting him try. either way excited to see what this game has in store for the future.
I think some things that could definitely make the game a bit better would be:
-save option (though I'm sure that's being worked on already)
-more story arcs and a way to show time is passing (characters like yet yet and Timmy getting older, yet yet becoming a more skilled adventurer, your beard growing etc.)
-hair and beard changing when you get a hair cut from the barber
-more achievements and rewards for doing certain things
-more dialogue from other characters (such as from those that offer gold in exchange for peoples or souls)
-different more tempting deals with the characters that offer gold in exchange for people or souls (witch, chest and devil guy)
-more dealing with the other kingdoms and creatures (mermaid people, tree stump people etc.)
That's all I can think of for now!
I thought about a new feature that could potentially affect the way you make decisions in this game. For now, the placeholder name I have made for this feature is called "Tyranny". Tyranny, is the amount of fairness you treat your people with. Sometimes you give certain people more approvals than others. Anyways, when making a decision that is not in the best interest of your people, your tyranny level may rise. When you let your tyranny level get too high, your royal advisor will come more frequently to warn you that people are threatening to leave. To decrease your tyranny level, you have to approve to choices that are fair to your people (Which may come to your expense). Letting your tyranny level get to the maximum level will make people become fearful of you, which may cause people to leave after the day ends.
Next, I have came up with a few ideas for choices you may have to make during the game:
- Decide wether or not you will allow people with a criminal history to enter your kingdom
- Decide wether or not to build a pet shelter at the expense of a hundred gold
- Decide wether or not to lift the ban on the consumption of bananas (If tyranny is implemented this could affect your tyranny level)
- Decide wether or not to put a ban on sneezing (May affect tyranny)
- Decide wether or not to pay for a girl's education
- Decide wether or not to pay for a dog for a child
- Decide wether or not to fine alien hunters (May affect tyranny)
- Decide wether or not to fund a renovation to Grandma's soup shop
- Decide wether or not to fund the construction of a petting zoo
- Decide wether or not to ban the art of wizardry and witchcraft
Here's a few suggestions!
Game Mechanics Changes:
-New (possibly unlockable over time) skins!
-Save codes (get a code generated to encode your current stats in one session, paste it into another session, resume from where you were)
-Customizable town! (when some things are "built", you get to decide where they go. Different locations affect how well they do)
-Character development (some characters "remember" your decisions, and begin to like/dislike you over time)
-Resource changes (people die over time, possibly add "materials", "relations with other towns", "sketchiness" resources)
-Other Towns (other towns develop on their own: you can buy stocks in the town in separate windows. Stock values change every round)
New Encounter:
Aspiring Mayor: I wish to start my own town! Can I have some money and people to get started?
Y:
Aspiring Mayor: Thank you so much! I promise I'll be back!
-30 people, -500 gold, +10 happiness
After about 5-10 rounds:
Aspiring Mayor: My town is so successful! Here are some funds back!
Y:
Aspiring Mayor: Here you go!
-10 people, +800 gold
N:
O-Oh... Okay then.
-10 happiness
N:
B-but... Everyone was so excited...
-20 happiness
This is all I could think of for now... I hope it's good enough!
Overall I think the game is fun, but a little too simple. If there were multiple endings I think this game would be much better. Managing resources is easy as the questions are usually predictable to answer, and there isn't anything you are really building towards. If there were multiple endings, I think it would be more challenging and could be played for longer than just one sitting.
So I love the game, right? But I do have somethings I'd like to suggest!
First of all I think there should be way more quest lines, like the one with the dragon, instead of the majority of the things in the game being random encounters that lead nowhere. It's very nice when you actually have some progress with diologues and go down different paths in questlines. Perhaps there could even be a tab to keep track of quests or something like that. And speaking of menus, I'd really like it fi the game had a main menu, a title screen with options and multiple save files. Just three or so squares that have some basic information about the file, like how many resources you have (money, population, happiness) which day you're on and how much tim you've spent playing the game. Perhaps there could even be an option to play as a Queen instead of a King. I'm not one for gender politics but that would be a nice option ^^ I found myself enjoying playing as a female much more in the game "Kingdom" for some reason, so maybe that would be a nice little feature :)
I'm not sure if it's just me but I've noticed that there's a transparent pixel in the yellow part of the courtain that's hanging over the window in the game, perhaps that could be corrected. And the King also looks like he's a little depressed. I'm not sure if that was intentional or not but he looks really sad, instead of interested and invested in the situation.
I don't have anything else I can think of atm so...thanks for your time!
Perhaps add more variable besides Money, Happiness, and Population.
Others could be: Hunger, Reputation (to other Kingdoms), Reputation (to the Kingdom), (Or just one Reputation in all), Fear, or others.
And also have alliances with certain Kingdoms, but one would have to be careful because some Kingdoms may have conflicts and dislikes for other kingdoms.
Similar comment to a couple above. A reputation meter. Because when the purple monster comes in mad about the fisherman, if you give him a sacrifice, he's cool but if you don't, he eats 5 people. I feel like if you gave him a sacrifice, your reputation with the people should go down. Ditto with letting Chester give you gold for eating people. Putting a price on your peoples' lives is pretty skeezy but there's no game mechanic that punishes that behavior at the moment.
Oh! And I got to cure Chester's curse, but then he came in later saying he'd eaten people and I'm like, Dude, come on. We talked about this.
All in all, great game, obviously a lot of people are really enjoying it. :D Good luck to you!
It would be nice if when the barber gave you a hair cut your hair got shorter, then slowly grows out as the game goes on. Also when the barber keeps asking to raise prices, there should be a negative consequence eventually. Last time I played I raised the prices 6 times, I'm sure other people wouldn't like that eventually. Also with the hauntings I will always pay money to make the spirits happy, but they always still get angered a few days later. Then the witch will say I should have payed them, when I did.
I love this game me and my cousin played it for an hour and we beat it (End of storyline) We wanted to decrease the amount of cats to 1 cat a day and salso it would be pretty cool if you added more sotry line and added a reputation bar like if you don't care about vandalism you reputation will go down and other cities won't accept you to alliances...
This game is so amazing! From the art style to the mechanics on choices, this game will be in my personal Top10 Indie Games list.
Here are my suggestions (Keep in mind, I don't know if these ideas had already been said)
1. A 3rd option (Like "Stay Silent" or something along the lines)
2. Save Feature (Via File or ingame browser)
3. More background castle animations (from the population)
4. A stats feature (For some characters, it'll show +/- Gold, Population, and Happiness)
5. A day limit option (Like in "Stick RPG Complete", you can choose how long you play (30 days, 1 week, etc.) )
6. A Scoreboard! ( Kind of a follow-up to #5 you can share scores with other people who play)
7. Make it Mobile! *and possibly Steam* (Be able to play on iPhone, Android, ETC.)
This what I have so far, I hope to have more ideas in the future and to see what this game!
- Da Maxinat0r
I've been playing this game for HOURS. I love it so much! Currently my population is 8000 with 900 happiness and 3200 gold. I just finished up day 150. I have a ton of suggestions for you!
1) Like most people have said, gameplay for people further down the road. It's gotten repetitive (but it's still fun)
2) I really think that there should be a sort of celebration for 100 days, and people could hold a festival or something that lasts a few days and brings in a lot of gold.
3) While I was playing this, I was really getting the "different outcomes come from different choices" feel. However, it didn't seem to be this way. I think that based on your decisions, different things should be available. Maybe if you constantly are evil to your citizens (through lil fang, chester, etc.), you can have more evil options, and if you do more good, more good options will appear.
4) I think the king should age as you progress through the game, and should die after 200 days (unless more material is added to make people want to go further than that), which leads into my next suggestion.
5) ENDINGS. I actually have ideas for 2 -- both would be where the king dies after a set period of time, but what happens next depends on if you took the 'good' or 'bad' route in the game. If you chose the good one, the screen will fade out as the king closes his eyes, and this light soft music will play. It will show everyone in the kingdom mourning together, then having a farewell festival thing. It could cut to the "Knight" character in the game who always wants to go on quests with an awkward fitting crown on his head, and then finally, it would show everyone together in the kingdom, even Mercury and the tree stump guy, and it would zoom up into a night sky, and fade out into darkness all peacefully and nice like that. For the bad ending, I'm not so sure, but it definitely wouldn't be as heartfelt.
6) I feel like there should be potential war between other towns at times, and that's more where the whole thing about "having more swords" is safe. The king would have to make decisions to lose some population or not based on what he thinks the war needs. It would cost money & happiness, etc., and you might have to surrender 2000 gold if you lose, and if you win, you win 1000.
7) (I really want this) Instead of a huge pile of gold, after every 1000 gold, the 1000 will turn into a "chest" (like a treasure chest) and will represent 1000 gold.
8) I'd love it if the barber actually cut the king's hair.
9) Chester should lose his teeth when you cure him. He should also ask for the king to put the witch into the dungeon for doing this to him, and the king can say yes or no. If not, she'll turn him back into a man-eating chest, and if you do, she won't tell you when to pay offerings. You'd have to 'hire' the ghost who always asks the "trick question" to do the seances for the evil spirits instead of the witches.
10) I'd love to see the kingdom turn into a city over time. Mason could be a much bigger character. And if that happens, maybe clothes on characters could slowly become more and more modern.
11) I'd love to see some pirate characters added into the game.
12) Maybe less 'yes' questions, and more questions that make you think.
13) If the scientists can make gold machines, certainly they can make more things that are really cool and beneficial.
14) I'd like to see more quests for knights to go on.
15) Little timmy needs to come in and ask him if he's seen a "kitty cat" and if you say yes, Timmy will always come into the castle carrying the cat. The first time he does, he'll thank you.
16) All the kids should age.
17) Instead of constantly "the people are happy! The city is growing!" Maybe include some humorous news report or something.
18) Like others have said, a reputation level.
19) Also like others have said, a save game function.
... I just closed out the game.
Began playing this game today, binged on it for a few hours because I liked it and I figured I'd look for anything wrong with it since there is an open suggestions thread. Dunno if you're actually still accepting them or if the game has been finished/finalized but here goes nothing. I didn't read any of the suggestions on here because I wanted to get right to the point of my own opinions of this game so I apologize if I suggest/say something that's already been said and handled.
Things I noticed/Would like to see:
-After a certain indeterminate amount of time, your gaining population/money/happiness seems to start to make the game lag slightly. I'd guess it's a half second slower than it was at the start, making the lines of text from the citizens and their dialogue sounds sound and appear slower. The game begins to feel like it's dragging on after a certain point. (I noticed this once I reached about Day 75-80 and had around 3000 Population/450 Happiness/3500 Money)
-The events don't really seem to line up and seem to be randomized. I get that the people who show up every day is randomized, but to give a proper example, this happened: Dragon came, I gave it the money it was demanding. The blacksmith crafted the Dragonblade. It sat in my possession for 23 days before an action was prompted by a member of the town asking to wield it. Then, because the only person who actually set up the prompt to wield it was the common thief girl, I gave it to her simply because I wanted to see if anything would be triggered by it. She was never heard from again, and there was no event other than an alert at the end of the night popping up saying "The townspeople are worried about a common thief wielding the Dragonblade." I was hoping to see something come out of it, like maybe the girl running off with it and triggering a Dragon attack because she never slayed it, or her using the blade to kill the Dragon and steal all its money, I dunno, something.
-Continuing off the previous point, there are certain events that aren't able to be fixed. For example, at certain random points, the spirits get angry and start terrorizing the town, causing the townspeople to be unhappy and the merchants to cease trading due to their fear. Well, usually the witch would come to you and say something like "We must make an offering! 1,000 coins!" followed by the occasional "Small offering of 200 coins!" text. After a certain point, she simply stops spawning in and you don't receive those prompts to stop the hauntings, resulting in the town constantly losing happiness and business. If it's able to be fixed, it would be a great help, because the hauntings have been going on (for me) for about 40 days now and there is actually no way to stop it, because the witch simply didn't come in and say anything about it. Instead, she'd offer to slay the goblins. Great.
-I successfully had the Scientists build the gold making machine and it seemed to not quite know what it wanted to do. At first, it steadily raked in 20 gold coins a night, with the occasional "big bag of coins" or "gold statue" coming in. Some nights it brought in all three at once and other nights it didn't bring in anything, so I was confused by what its rate of income was supposed to be.
-Some alerts of differing nature like "+50 coins" followed by "+5 people" would appear on top of each other and would render them both unable to be read. Not a huge deal, because you could always just look down and see how your stats changed, but it still would be nice to have those alerts stacked above one another, not appearing right in the same place on top of each other.
-After a certain point of "town growth", the animation for it ceased. You saw that your town was growing by the thousands, but there stopped being an animation to follow its progress. I want to suggest adding an animation for it. Like, after the town has grown to the max that is shown currently, you could have the background of the town pan out, and show the ever growing land and have the player actually be able to put a picture to the numbers they're seeing.
-To follow along with the town growth animation, I want to suggest a coin growth animation as well. After about 2,900 coins, the animation for coins dropping in around the throne stopped. I don't know if it was that exact number, but that's around when I noticed it. I think it would be good to have a way to track that progress as well, like maybe after reaching the limit (which I assume to be between 2,500-3,000 coins) in the throne room where the king sits, you could be prompted with an event by your adviser, like "My lord, we have an abundance of gold. Would you like to build a new place to keep it?" And there could be an animation of that, like a building in the background slowly filling up with gold. Once you reached the determined amount of money where it stopped spawning into the throne room, it could be deposited into this "bank" and the animation would reset, allowing you to collect another (supposed) 3,000, so you can keep up with the animation and feel like you're actually accomplishing something.
-After a while, like I mentioned before, the events don't seem to line up or really have a sense of progress. Days on end are just spend with "Would you like to buy these swords for your soldiers?" and "We need to spend money fixing up our roads!" but there is no real sense of you doing anything with them. I feel like my decisions have stopped having meaning. In the beginning of the game, everything felt like it had real consequences and meaning, but by day 50 it feels like you're just going through the motions. I'd like to see an event following things like "Would you like to buy these swords for your soldiers?" and such, and here are some "event" suggestions I have in mind (that stay true to the idea of the game):
- "Would you like to buy swords for the soldiers of your town?" Could possibly trigger an event where you actually go to war and if you chose not to buy swords, you'd lose a number of people, happiness, and money.
- "Would you like to buy my flowers? They're at an all time low price just for you!" Could trigger an event where if you buy enough flowers, the plant people have them magically imbued and they rise up against you in a revolt.
- "We need to spend money fixing up our roads so they don't fall into disarray!" Could trigger any of the following events: Not fixing the roads means you are physically barred from your population rising for any reason until you spend money to fix them, and the more days consecutively you don't spend repairing them should add a certain amount of gold to how much it costs to repair them; By fixing the roads, you draw attention from local thieves and raiders, causing them to raid the caravans as they enter/leave your town; Having fully fixed roads could allow you to have a festival, where you can have the jester, caravans, and tavern all open at once and have a max event list triggered at the end of the night.
- "I got sick from eating too much candy.. Can I have gold to go to the doctor?" This one has always bugged me. Giving her money just results in loss of money, and no added happiness; Not giving her money results in a loss of happiness. No real reward here. I suggest either adding a happiness trigger or an actual risk/reward system; at the current moment, this character in the town is nothing more than a nuisance, despite her "candy business." I think any of the following are good ideas: Giving her money results in her selling more candy and you getting more in return; Giving her money results in a happiness bonus; Not giving her money results in her breaking her candy business off with you and removing you from the earnings she receives; Not giving her money results in her actually retaliating, by either hiring a thief to steal your money, or leaving the town, etc.
These are just some of my suggestions. I only played it for a few hours but I really enjoyed it, though I believe there are certainly things that can be done to improve the gameplay. That being said, I got through about three hours of it before I got tired of it, so that says a lot about what's going for this game.
Good luck and I hope it continues to succeed.
I'm not sure if maybe I've just missed it in my hours of playing (which seems to happen; I still randomly find new events I hadn't gotten before) or what, but it seems like Louise (the cake man; I think that's his name) disappears after you accept him in besides the off-screen event of handing out cake and producing happiness. I'd like to see some more events with him? Maybe he can offer you different types of cake that will boost a certain stat by a couple or maybe have the off chance of it being bad?
I also think having a system of being able to lock up people who come to see you would be cool. Like maybe you have to see them a certain number of times and then the advisor comes in and asks you what you think of them? After so many days they (depending on the character) either get released or kept due to crimes (example: If you locked up Grandma she'd be released the next day but if you locked up the Thief girl she'd be kept for say, 20 days?)
Maybe the event would go something like this?
Advisor: Say, king, do you like Thief Girl?
I guess this would probably be really hard to program though. Just an idea, really. Perhaps it's a little too much for the scope of the game, I'm not really sure. Just thought I'd share the idea!
Marge
A friendly street mutt.
I would like to see more character development or choice consequence. After about 100 days, I started giving all bad answers in an attempt to gain money, lose people, and make people generally unhappy. Even after 35 days of this, my city was still growing. It wasn't a challenge at all! It would be great if more varied answers were added to keep me interested and if characters remembered choices you made and responded in the future based on that. (i.e. if I denied swords to my guard, a criminal may more easily steal money). I would also like to see more characters in general as a new citizen arriving was always fun and interesting! Lastly, I really enjoyed the small treasures added to the money pile (cog from robot, sword for dragon) and would like to see more small additions like that. Perhaps show the garden being grown in the background, or show the tea on the throne arm rest.
Awesome game! Super cute animation and I really enjoyed playing.
P.S. I also enjoyed the bunny robot's name. I chuckled :P
My suggestion after playing and loving this little game.
Regarding the military it seems that you can only help your ally and always win. What if you lose? Also, what if your kingdom is attacked directly and you lose?
For example: your kingdom is attacked and you have the choice to give gold to improve your forces (increase chance of success by, let's say 20%, from an initial chance of 35%). If you lose, you would have to pay a weekly sum of gold to the winner kingdom. After you lose, perhaps the knight can offer a chance for liberation. If you win, you can perhaps gain gold and lose people.
Another idea would be to attack other kingdoms with the same mechanic, inverted.
Not to mention you can add a chance for the devil to appear and offer another bargain for souls (example: give 30+ souls to win a battle etc.), or for a chance for the knight to appear after the war started and offered to lead to troops (gain extra happiness and increase chance of winning).
I'm on day 290 at the moment with around a 12k people and a few thousand happiness, and gold sure isn't a problem. I know you're working on developing the story a bit more because as you know it's boring in the "late late" game. However i feel there are a tiny things that could make them game a little more fun here and there.
- a morning time, where you get 1 person, then it would shift to day for the next few... (the person that arrives during the morning would be taken from the midday section)
-An easy way to make the animations for gold to grow above about 3kish or so, is to just start turning them into bricks of gold (each one is worth 100) and they would take up about 3x as much space as one coin.
-Maybe use Molder to advance the story line that will tie in with aliens? and might contain the all-seeing eye?
just a few thoughts, the one about molder is a gamble, but it could be cool. Love the game! :D
I have a few suggestions you can use.
1. Natural disasters: Every now and then a disaster (tornadoes, volcanoes, earthquakes, floods and even a godzilla looking monster) and the city in the back ground gets destroyed and you have to rebuild the city
2. Payoffs: A barbarian horde will enter your throne room demanding gold if you pay them off they will leave but if you refuse they will get angry and the city in the back ground will catch on fire
3. Experiments: An alien will come up asking if he could abduct some of your people. If you say yes you'll lose 10 people and he will give you 200 gold. If you say no he'll say "Oh fine i'll go somewhere else" and walk away.
$. Zombie apocalypse: At a random point a bunch of zombies will show up and start eating people. Your knight comes up and asks if he can be the one to fight them off. If you say yes he leaves and beats the zombies but if you say no the zombies come in and the screen goes black and when it comes back you become a zombie and play as a zombie king.
6.Thirsty vampire: A vampire will walk up saying she's thirsty. She ask you if she cann drink the blood of some of your people. If you say yes she leaves and you lose some people. If you say no she gets angry and threatens to come back (she does too).
A traviling merchant:
1.IL offer ya a magic wand for only 300
Yes:lose 300 gold gain 1 wand in tresure pile this makes wizerds deals better but when its a bad spell its worse
no:Awww Youl buy my next item lose 3 happyness
2.Im selling a magic cog wanna buy it? it will be 600 gold
Yes:lose 600 gold gain 1 magic cog this can be used to make a science project better
No:Hmph next item will be the thing you buy lose 3 happyness
(The no will be the same exept that happyness will start declining faster)
3.You want a Legendary hammer? it will be 1500 gold
You can give this to the blacksmith to make him work faster thus giving you gold faster and making him make the dragons bane faster
(that is all i have for now i might add more items and stuff)
I have a handful of suggestions, but I would like to preface this with how much I enjoy your game already! It's such a great game to play in order to kick back and relax at the end of a long day. I like everything about it and can't wait to see what it grows into with all of the updates. The music is calming, the art and animation style is incredibly cute, the sound effects make me chuckle every time I hear "mmhmm", and I've yet to encounter a bug. Thank you so much for coming up with such a simplistic yet ingenious game concept!
Gameplay:
It would be really cool to see randomized changing weather outside of the castle and different game events associated with the weather. For instance:
Another suggestion is to have the jail/dungeon with barred windows visible in the background. Then, when you jail someone you could see their character behind the bars of one of the windows.
And lastly, it would be cool to have the lighting change depending on time of day instead of just having a color filter over the entire game screen. So the sky outside would become darker, and the lights in all of the villager's buildings would light up, and you could even add candles inside the castle that light up.
Hope this hasn't been suggested already and I missed it. This thread's been busy! I realize the pull of the game is that everything is a simple y/n response, but would it be possible for the player to specifically summon one member of their court each day? An option to make no summons would also be nice, but I feel being able to call a specific character would help a lot. You could advance through the character's stories more easily and, more importantly, call the witch to appease those pesky spirits more hastily! You probably shouldn't be able to decide what SPECIFICALLY you'll speak to them about, but raising your chances to advance would be nice. Maybe give this feature a gold-cost? (Have to pay the messenger for their service!)
Uh if you're thinking about improving the game and are still taking suggestions then here we go. ok first of all great game for the price tag of being free and is so simple its amusing. But here are some annoying features i find and me overall giving suggestions. ok 1st of all some of the questions are way too easy, for example. why wouldnt i throw out a few coins to give to little timmy and get crazy happiness. why wouldnt i rub a cats belly? why wouldnt i give the mason a sandwich? i want more complex decisions. Also, the scientists should do more than create the crappy gold machine early on. I gave them 100 gold every 1-5 days and eventually gave 500 again and i only gained averagely 20 gold per day... Also choices are usually yes which bugs me. Can settlers move in? yes do we place a bounty? yes do we do this? yes how bout that? yes. great game but has room for improvement.
Hey! I'm kinda obssessed with this game at the minute, you guys did a great job! I want to be an indie developer myself eventually, so I like supporting stuff like this! :). A suggestion I have would be, for example, when you're supposed to give money to the spirits to stop them haunting your town only you don't get a chance until it's too late and you gotta give over 1000 gold, I think it would be good to integrate some sort of map, so you can visit the graveyard and maybe have the option to leave a pouch of gold there to appease them for a certain amount of days. Visiting other locations would be good too, like if you choose to let the scientists construct the gold making machine or something, maybe you could visit their headquarters and have some kind of option to see how much progress they've made... does that make sense? It might be similar to what other people have been saying, but yeah. I agree with these people..! haha.
Another idea would be maybe to have options to make it more or less difficult by adding other variables to keep on top of. Food might be a good one, like every time that mason guy asks for a sandwich,or the kitty cat comes in wanting to be fed, you'd lose a bit of the food as well as gold or something. Maybe include some other characters related to this. Maybe one of the neighbouring towns lost a load of supplies in a fire and is asking for help, so you have the option to send like -50 gold and -200 food or something like that? I'm not sure whether that would be adding too much complication, the game as it is is beautifully simple in a way so messing with it too much might not be in it's favour haha.
Other than that, you guys did an awesome job!! As soon as I have some in real life gold, y'all can be sure I'll send a donation over!!
I feel as though there needs to be, firstly, a separate area where your money is kept - a treasury. Also, that one should be able to actually see where your town's borders are, which could help tip one off to when the Mermaid and Tree events may start. It would be pretty cool to be able to see my full to the brim treasury and expansive city from more than just my window and the seat of my throne. In addition, possibly more court members and decisions would be awesome, along with already reported miscellaneous bug fixes, such as hauntings, for example. However, on a whole, it's still a great game! Especially for free. I saw Markiplier's video on it and was drawn to it for its humor and quirkiness. Late in the game, however, it can get tedious. The addition of more population rewards would also be nice, along with a larger cap on happiness to population growth? My prior point about the game still stands, however. Very well done indeed.
I recently found this game and have gotten pretty addicted. I know you've said several times that you hadn't anticipated people playing for such long sessions, and so didn't plan much late-game content, but I had a few suggestions for some. I apologize in advance if these are repeats of other people's contributions.
I think it would be interesting to see more long term effects for repeated decisions, such as if you make choices that result in the sacrifice of your subjects, perhaps something of an uprising? If you refuse the sea monster often enough, perhaps the fishermen stand with you to fight it? I think some more unexpected consequences would be interesting to see as well. Like, occasionally if you let Granny keep her soup shop money, she pays it forward and gives out free soup, leading to more random happy points? Or, giving Little Timmy his coin will randomly result in him investing it in a lemonade stand that ends up making a good chunk of money and he pays you back?
Also, when your treasury balance is in the red, I think it would be cool if characters that you've helped several times (Granny, the Blacksmith, Pancake, etc) would show up from time to time to just help you out. Also, it would be nice if events that normally occured that would just give you gold like the candy tax, or profits from the Blacksmith or Granny's soup shop still showed up during negative balance situations instead of being stuck with only trading citizens or happiness for money.
I know people have mentioned expanding on some of the character's stories. I would personally love to see more going on with Pancake, or the Mouse, or Yet Yet.
Anyway, that's just a few thoughts I had. Thanks for your time!
Just a few suggestions: Make it possible to kick someone out of the kingdom, like the girl who eats too many sweets.
Also if you can make the change that happens to the monster treasure chest permanent.
Perhaps set an in-game time limit. Like you have to have "X" gold and people by "X" many days.
Another idea could be that after you've made alliances with other neighboring kingdoms you can borrow money from them if you go into negative. They the king would send someone to you to collect once you have double the amount you borrowed.
Thanks
I have a few ideas
First I think that the kid characters, like Timmy, should do a back flip animation and yell "whawhooooooooo!" just because it would be funny and unexpected and would fit the characters.
Second Look through different mythologies and incorporate in some of the characters and monsters, as well as d&d monsters maybe? Also kings and rulers inspired by the real world cultures that you can interact with like the sultan, and even non human rulers.
Third you should be able to recruit the goblins that the witch fights, kinda like with the monkey bounty. also wild animals, bandits and mercenaries and the like should show up at some point.
Also maybe a priest and more mystics/ magic users, and I think the stump and plant girl story lines should be interconnected if they aren't all ready.
Also groups that are only mentioned like the captured soldiers and the pineapple merchants should have Characters to represent them. Also political factions like the Roman Demes and job class guilds should be introduced as well, and political leaders like your kingdoms lords and senators and chieftains as well.
Finally more buildings like the Tavern and grainery, maybe aqueducts, and libraies ? and you can see them in the cityscape outside the window.
I keep having to pay 1000 for hauntings, and the witch contiunes to suggest making small offerings to prevent it, but then she doesn't come for anything but goblins, and I end up having to drop another 1000 on hauntings when she finally shows up! It's frustrating. I get word of hauntings, the ghosts stay for days, and then she shows up and wants 1000. Maybe either the random hauntings need to be changed, or the witch needs to change.
Also, it'd be nice to see different things from the poeple. I keep seeing the same 5ish people on a daily basis, and it's getting really repetative, to the point where I just say no to try to change things.
I love this game! It took me a while to realise it wasn't meant to be a long playing game (mostly cause the drummer and the scientist only showed up about a minute before i headed to bed the first time so it felt like there was a lot more story) but even now i realise its not it has so much potential to be! I definitely have suggestions.
Autosave! though i know thats coming don't worry. then little animations, like lights being on in the city at nighttime and off in the day, or seasons so snow in the winter and maybe the city covered in flowers and vines crawling up the walls in spring and summer. Also that purple witch never came back in time for me to not get haunted which was pretty costly and irksome. Saying that though, i'd love to be able to have more positive interactions with the monsters and undead! I loved the little vampire until i realised everything i agreed to with him apart from getting a nickname ended up impacting me negatively. Same with the ghost, i thought maybe i could pay him to haunt my enemies but it just ended up making my people unhappy. Maybe if there was an undead kingdom we could have relations with? Or just more relations with other kingdoms, nothing really happened with my tree appeasment, or my army alliance once we'd helped them in battle, or with the merpeople apart from them asking for money to give to their god. Also more moral consequences - I've never so far let the shifty girl steal from the people for me because it felt bad, but i get the feeling that if i did all that would happen would be a loss of a couple of happiness, and i'm so good at keeping my people happy that this wouldn't have a great effect on me. I have let the chest eat people when i've been in debt from anti haunting rituals, which again should probably have had far more consequences than it did. Mainly more big stories and more consequences.
This would make for a great app though! Running similar to real time, with decisions lining up throughout the day to be completed either as they appeared or before the day resets. Also a little customisation, maybe a king or a queen model, with the ability to change the hair and robe colours from a wheel, something simple (well seems simple, i don't know about coding) but will really add an extra feel to the game. and decoration upgrades for the throneroom, just for when you have more money than you know what to do with!
I played for probably a total of 2.5 hours, loved it by the way, and I came up with a couple suggestions. Fairly often the spirits would get disgruntled without me even having a chance to appease them beforehand, perhaps the witch should visit more often. I'd also like to see her have some sort of sub-plot of her own. Lastly, I think it'd be fun to have more of a little story around the alien and Molder, maybe be forced to choose a side of some battle.
I have some character ideas (I apologize if this has already been implemented, but I doubt it since I've been playing for an hour straight).
1. Assassin: You have the choice of either giving them money(ex:300) or having them kill a good sum of your citizens(ex 30).
2. Mercenary: Can be hired to protect you from the Assassin for a sum of money(ex:150).
3. Royal Guard: Can be hired for free! Reduces the negative effects of other characters. (ex: if the eyeball comes in and the offer is a negative answer, the result wont be as bad, or if the Assassin wasn't given money, instead of losing 30 citizens, you would only lose 20)
4. Black Dog: Just barks, but it is unknowingly evil. If you give it food it will roam around the city dealing no harm to citizens, but if you refuse to feed it, everyday it will kill off 2 citizens, until it reappears again.
5. Live Stock Farmers: Farmers! Brings in money, produces live stock for citizens.
6. Cyclops: Can be killed just like the dragon. You are given the choice to give it 400 gold or it will take the lives of people and live stock everyday until you meet it again.
7. Elf: Specializes in only good magical spells for free.
8. Grim Reaper: For a sum of 1500 it will leave you alone for the rest of the game, else it will kill off citizens at an alarming rate. The only way to stop it if you do not pay up is by having the witch reappear and have her say she will kill the grim reaper for 1000 gold instead of the 1500 (which must happen quite sometime after the grim reaper if you refuse to give up the gold... Its a punishment).
9. Imp: Harmless in nature, likes to play pranks on people. Some people may find it disturbing or annoying to keep around.
10. Shapeshifter: Can imitate any character in the game. The only way to find out if the character is real or not is by noticing the bad grammar.(you will ALWAYS want to say No to this character as it will take twice as much money as the original offer, without telling you that. EX: (the joker needs 200 to upgrade the juggling balls, it will show it needs 200, but in-turn it will take 400 instead, with the reply "FOOL, YOU UNDERSTAND NOTHING"(totally not from soul eater - *sarcasm*).
11. Werewolf: Only appears in the afternoon, Considered a threat to citizens and must be captured. When/if captured you are given the chance to give him to the scientists to cure him or throw him in the cell'er.
12. Leprechauns: If you let them sell their new cereal brand, you get free gold at the end of each day! ;)
13. No more ideas. D:
i feel like it would be cool if skully or the pink slime puddle had a chance at giving you info on the royal ambassadors, so you would/might know who to trust. or mabey if skully catches the necromancer the chances of ghosts striking would decrease.
also just a thought mabey the wizzard could ask for a 1000 gold for research material to increase his success rate 5-10%. (which ever you think is fair) probably better it happens only once though so the wizzard doesnt become too op.
I Was Thinking, What If The Sneaky Girl Was Your Long Lost Daughter And You Ether Reunite With Her Or Execute Her, Reuniting With Her Will Make Make You Gain 25 Happiness And 150 Gold, Well Executing Her Would Make You Loose 25 Happiness And Gain 200 Gold But She Will Know Be Known As Alexia Or Something Like That, Just An Idea, Hope You Like It
I think that you should add some achievements and that there should be more celebrations for population. I also think you should be able to call the Court of Crowns (or what ever its called) and be able to ask for money is you are in debt, need to get rid of spirits, or need something else. of coarse if you did this to much the I think that the should deny you until you help some one out
some charterers I think you should add are
- robber - this guy would come and steal a medium sum of your money randomly/ when you get too rich
-killer - this person should come to your town randomly and kill some of your population
-police - puts robbers/ killers in jail
-3 little sheep - these are a group of sheep that come ask you for materials to build there houses (one asks for weak stuff, one asks for medium strong stuff, and one asks for strong stuff)
- big bad nice wolf - this character would come and ask you things like "have you seen any sheep lately" "do you have a strong fan of some sort"
thats all the ideas i have now
Hi! I just wanted to say that it feels like the king is a little lonely... maybe make a queen-like quest? For example, let's say that the skeleton guy found a girl & asks if you would like to meet her. After that, you can start talking to her and after a few days, you can say yes or no (DUH!) to her asking if you like her or something similar. :) THANKS FOR READING :) AND FOR THE GAME I'TS AMAZING :)
that would be great and (maybe i dont know) easy to make a backround backround view that would start building when you reach 500 people and end at 1000! also make a reward for reaching 5000!! (I know its very long to get there but still for people who wanted to hear what eveyone can and will say and say "yes or "no" to everyone they can)
Hey, I don't know who else is playing but I'm at the 90+ day mark and have played about 5-6 hours on the game and I want to see more challenge/characters/responses/features because I actually love the game for it being so silly and odd, and maybe add a feature that involves keeping the golden cog from the robot!
Hey there. Not sure if this has been suggested before, but I'd love a way to get rid of Mortimer permanently. It was nice to be able to cure Chesty and it seems odd that I can have my knight slay a dragon but no one can get rid of a citizen-eating monster that attacks relatively frequently.
Maybe have the mermaids take him out since he apparently lives under water? Or the mage, the witch, or just tell the guards to slay him when he comes to visit you. Anything reasonable to get rid of him, really.
I mean, my military has countless swords made for them at this point, surely someone can do something about this murderer.
First off great game I've been playing it for several hours now IDK how long really and I have 7.2K people, 976 joy, and 4K gold. in terms of suggestions I see a couple have already been talked about and done but what what it needs is more world building really as I would finish everything but find my self thinking whats happining outside my kingdom, and a couple serious chooses to pick as I found things just set me back a bit but in 1 - 2 the days later the problems would be gone. like the tree stump asking for 1000 gold I would just give it to him then gives souls to Georgie then the problem is over. Also More interaction with the other kingdoms thats not me giving more to Mercury which is the only time I ever talk with really, and the others I don't even talk to exept for when I'm joining the council of crowns and the one meeting they had. I like some of the comments I saw too like being about to check up on people and customize your king. Sorry for being VERY late to the party and some of the stuff I say you might already be putting in the next update but just wanted to give my thoughts.
I think more route choices should be available for certain characters, eg: Louis. (I dont know how are you going to implement that, but just seeing him only giving out free cakes to raise the happiness stat after every day is kinda.... dissapointing? I mean, he is basically just giving out free cakes; he doesn't really affect the storyline or future choices very much. maybe giving him a role somewhat similar to Yet Yet would be good?) The All-Seeing Eye could play a significant role to future choices (give it a role similar to what its name suggests, seeing the future.), eg: When it is sad, same stat decrease as always, but also other choices like granary being infected and route choices like the dragon's and stumpy's chance of appearing (if the player has not encountered any of them yet) increases. When it is happy, same stat increase as always, and with choices like the wizard's spells and blacksmith's rewards will appear more frequently. you could make this "buff" last for 1-2 days. Im not sure about this, but maybe you could give Georgie a storyline? seeing Chester's storyline in the recent update was quite fun (in a sense). This has always piqued my interest, but why wouldn't the Sneaky Girl steal from the MC in the game? I don't see any guards around, so she should be able to steal from MC some gold (obviously not all, because if stumpy arrives, he is going to rob all our money and make us fall into bankruptcy.) maybe you could add the concept of guards (only being available in a certain period of time) in the game? With that addition, you can expand into adding new characters and maybe even add the concept of other towns raiding the castle. This is just an idea, i wouldn't expect whatever i said earlier to be completely correct theory-wise.
An update for boots the cat. I think that after using it for quests and such. After 1000 total pets/feeds the cat wont leave and there would be an option to allow it to stay in the castle. It would be positioned against the window next to where the cog would be. And at the end of the night the cat would add +5 to happiness.
The prompt would say something like "Seems like the cat boots wants to stay in your castle. Would you like it to stay?"
Also the cat against the window would be sitting up during the day and sleeping at dark. Maybe there should be a tiny water and food bowl next to the cat.
I'd like to see a history of my decisions/kingdom. Maybe just a chart showing the size of my happiness/treasury/population over time? Also maybe an editor so I could customize my king. I wouldn't want the game to get much more complex, gameplay wise, I think I just want more events/questions, and to better be able to reflect on how the game's going.
Incidentally, I love this game and I'm hooked on it. Great work.
I loved playing Sort The Court, and I recorded a 5 video series of it! The only problem was, I finished it by day 72, and each video was about 10-20 minutes long. My only request is that you add more problems and goals to accomplish after being conducted into the Council of Crowns.
Playlist- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2IYMePIT7oWveCK5e2CW-kVHd6AlGJ6t
Suggestion:- The ability to do more scientific projects throughout the ages, like the time machine, I guess you could expand on that with more story to it maybe? Also the ability to see population graph, happiness graphs, so you can see your progress throughout the ages, You should also have a map mode, expand your empire on land and beyond... infinite maps to conquer , so basically a monarchy civlization simulator, so even after the story has finished, you can still mess about . Perhaps more yes or no questions, to do with science , technology upgrades and perhaps issuing decrees ,say yes or no to a proposal for a decree, which can have a positive or negative effects on your stats?
just a thought
I have some suggestions! Please consider some of these, I think it would make the game more fun!
I personally think the game should have more aftergame activities, such as minigames and quests you can go on and you can either lose happiness, or gain lots of gold depending on the choices you make. You should also have more fun things you can do while playing the game, like the dragon slaying one. Also, you should be able to customize your character (no offense but the characters you already have look... kinda diseased...) There should also be a king/ queen opposite of your gender so it's like real life!
Please consider some of these ideas!
Love this game!!!
In terms of gameplay, I don't think I can add anything that hasn't already been said. But visually I would suggest giving more feedback to the player, for example when the dragon comes maybe add some screen shake, or add little animations or just change sprites for when the king's reaction to things. Maybe even stars at night or a sunset at dusk.
Essentially just subconsciously let the player know they made a difference to reinforce the player's experience.
I was thinking that if you keep feeding the cat (Boots)that maybe after everytime you feed him the next time he comes he gets boots then the next time he gets a hat and then he gets a little sword then after he gets his full outfit he gets renamed puss in boots and then next time he can talk but not really well and he has to say meow in each sentence after that make him come over and do missions for you!!!
oh and that if you kept the cog the robot gamedev would come back with loads of money and people saying "thank you for fixing me and believing in me, and thank you for also keeping my cog!" then after that he gives you 1000 gold (cuz remember that King that came by saying if you sold him that cog that he would give you 1000 gold?) and he gives you 15 people
make the general have a bigger purpose and make it so you can pay mortimer money later and maybe more people and so you can choose ho you want to kick because i always wanted to kick lil fang and maybe more city tiers and more mile stones i have 5k people and a badge for geting your money out of the game
Great game, but I think that more science related things should be added and the gold generating machine should have some kind of exponential money gaining amount.
So, lets say that there's a 50/50 chance of the machine to give money one day, in some way, like if the scientist, in some random days, ask you for more money, you could upgrade that and goes to 75% chance or 100%, after that, there could be upgrades to the amount of gold gained, lets suppose it is 60% ($20), 35% ($60) and 5% ($150), by investing you could increase like, 50% ($20), 42,5% ($60) and 7,5% ($150), or even more after that.
You could make Jester's $700 show cost less, last more and have a greater return on money.
I think the Sultan should have more "agreement' options too, or maybe you could ask your assistant (Royal Advisor) to make YOUR agreements with him, like sending or buying spices, merchants, etc.
I love your make and I with you could read this and agree with my ideas.
Thank you for your time.
It's so easy to get sucked into the game and realize you're over a hundred days in. What if you added a family system? You need to marry and have children in order to keep your country moving along. Also your character ages as the game progresses. So when the character you are playing dies one of your children takes over. Also maybe add characteristics? For example, you could start with kindness and therefore you are more loved by your people or you could start with greedy and get more money at the end of the day. Who you marry will help determine what the next generation is like.
Love this game! Next time I get paid I'll donate to you. Please keep up the good work. I have anxiety and this game really helps me deal with my bad days. So thank you for helping me with that. I'll help you out as well when I get paid :)
As far as I know, there seems to be no other option for the "Hero who wields the Dragon Blade" other than "Sneaky Girl". I really didn't want to give her the sword, but no one else was coming and she kept coming back so I gave it to her, and then the people didn't really like that. I guess I just want to know if it's even possible to choose someone else? If it isn't then it should be I think.
We should be able to have husband's or wives like we choose who we want to marry and how it will effect the kingsome also we need more to the story like the kingdom will go to the heir if you get married and have a kid and adoption is only available if you are married and you can also marry your own gender for those who are in the LGBT community and before you get married you have to date the person a certain amount of times then you decide if you want to settle for the girl or guy you are dating or if you want to break up and look for another if you want to talk to me about ideas I would love to.
I think you should make it so once you are nice to timmy enough you can adopt him. It seems as though timmy does not have parents because of the fact that he has to ask you for his friends to come over. If you do decide to adopt him he with sit by your throne sometimes, or he can maybe walk around a bit. I would really love to see this added into the game.
I think when people give you things (like flowers and the such) they could decorate the throne room, like the walls or maybe there's some flower pots now? And maybe food items can also be there but for only the remainder of the day. This doesn't seem like anything too complicated either since the robot can give you the gear that stays in your throne room, it would just be a nice and subtle decorative detail.