Desktopia: A Desktop Village Simulator (tuxdb.com)

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Now that the game is launched wed like to talk a little about our future development pipeline. We should start by saying that ALL future updates and DLC will be included with the base game. There will be NO PAID ADDONS and NO MICROTRANSACTIONS. If you own the base game then all future DLC will be included. We may, however, increase the price of the base game as more content is added. This way, we can thank you early adopters while still funding the expansion.
Tyranny!, our first large update is already in production. This update will add an entirely new way of playing Desktopia: as a tyrant! It will be a more active way to play, requiring more of your focus. It is also entirely optional. Tyranny! will give you the chance to level up your personal character with new skills and powers, enabling you to take on the games bosses and new enemies without the help of soldiers. What it will include: New Buildings: - The Dark Guards : To start the Tyranny tree, you build this instead of the Barracks, and rather than soldiers, you will get guards, who prowl your village: taxing your villagers and keeping them in line. This means that you wont have soldiers to fight the boss (though you can still build heroes) Instead, the rest of the buildings in the Tyranny! Tree will allow you to upgrade your character, so you can take on the boss yourself. New Resource: - Tyranny: like gratitude, you will be able to spend your tyranny orbs on game bonuses. New Skills: - Swap your pistol for a rifle, your axe for a mega axe, and learn spells like the Stronghold bosses. Kaiju: - Tyranny attracts monsters! The more tyrannical you become, the more frightening things will try to come and take your villages from you: including massive Kaiju which you can fight off with your new skills. New Levels: - 2 new, longer levels! New Heroes: - Some new, dark heroes! When will it release? We'd like to launch as early as November, but we won't launch until it's ready. What else is planned? Beyond this in another free DLC, which we are temporarily calling MoreTopia we are looking at introducing a new game mode, beyond the progressive level mode, which will allow for the creation of, random maps with various modifiers (such as locked buildings, random enemies, new bosses, mid level bosses, and other features). This new mode should extend dramatically the playability of the game and offer new and interesting challenges. Thanks for reading this, and for playing Desktopia! If youve enjoyed the game so far, please leave a review: they really help motivate us to work faster!! The Evergloom Team

[ 2022-08-07 11:45:53 CET ] [ Original post ]

Desktopia: A Desktop Village Simulator

The Evergloom Team Developer

The Evergloom Team Publisher

August 5th Release

RPG Simulation Singleplayer Tags

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At it's core, Desktopia is a city-builder game which simulates an evolving, medieval-esque village along the bottom of your desktop, allowing you to work, watch, or browse something else while you play.

Like any city-builder, you get to make the big decisions, while also being able to take control of your own sword wielding character. You can join in the battles, harvest resources, put out fires, or interact with your villagers. In Desktopia, you can be as active, or as idle, as you want!

Before you buy:

This game was not created in a studio, but by three friends looking to make something different, fun, and useful: We think we've done that and we love Desktopia.
We want anyone who plays it to love it too. With that in mind: you should be aware this is not a AAA game like the amazing ANNO series (which you should definitely check out), with thousands of hours of content, nor does it have the beautiful rendered graphics of Cities Skylines (a game we love). If you're looking for a cute pixel-art game, something fun you can play while watching a series, browsing the internet, or writing that essay, then Desktopia might be for you!

A completely original approach in PC gaming: designed with functionality in mind, Desktopia allows you to use your PC for multiple purposes on a single monitor.
Clever UI: with resizeable pop-out windows which can be arranged anywhere on your screen.
A playable character which levels with your village, so you can jump into the action whenever you want.
Detailed logs and statistics arrayed in beautiful charts and graphs.
Spy Mode: focus the camera on any villager, any time, and watch as they live their life.
Resizeable game world, with the option to have it 'always on top' of other windows.
Quick-hide button that puts the whole game into the windows tray... in case your boss come along while your playing!

From nothing: grow a series of villages along a dangerous and treacherous road: from a single house to a bustling metropolis.
Construct a range of facilities (inns, libraries, post offices, temples, blacksmiths etc) and watch villagers move in independently.
Keep your villagers happy to collect gratitude, and use it to host festivals which bedeck your village in bunting!
Recruit and upgrade soldiers to defend your village from undead, bandits, fairies, and demons. Join them in battle if that's your thing!
Hire heroes to lead the charge against your foes and destroy their strongholds.
Decide on building low-tech villages with few needs, or risk it big by aiming for high-tech villages with needy villagers.

Quirky villagers each with their own set of needs and personalities.
Increasingly dangerous attacks and enemies as your village grows.
Villager moods driven by weather, village events, and personal ones.
Criminal villagers, driven by low moods, that steal or commit arson.
Dangerous fires which kill villagers and destroy buildings: lit by enemies, criminals, or accidentally.
Huntable animals and monsters.
Bosses that stand in the way of you moving down the road, and heroes to counter them.
Serfs that upgrade to become nobles, or even industrialists.

You start by chopping down some bushes, earning some gold, and building a welcome sign.
Some villagers move in. It's your first village; they're serfs and they want food and protection.
After they've harvested some bushes and earned you some gold (with you helping if you want) perhaps you build them a chicken coop and some more villagers move in.
They love it, and start dropping Gratitude, which you pick up.
After some more harvesting, you build a barracks and a few soldiers appear.
They start heading off along the road to kill stuff. Maybe you join them.
More villagers move in but now they want religion, and some luxuries.
Perhaps you build a blacksmith or a... hold on, some skeletons and spiders are coming down the road from the crypt.
Phew, your soldiers kill them, but only after they kill some villagers.
Now your villagers are sad so you build them a tavern.
More villagers move in.
You have a lot of villagers now and some are getting rich and becoming noble, aww, don't they look cute in their new hats.
Wait, now they all want infrastructure.
Maybe you build a post office.
All your villagers are moaning about rain, but you've earned enough gratitude to throw a festival.
You throw a religious one, as everyone is still moaning that you haven't build a temple yet.
Everyone is so happy, but your village has expanded past an animal grove and wild boars are attacking your villagers.
You hire a hunter.
But now the skeletons are coming back, with a vampire this time and they are determined to burn down your village... if only you had enough gold to buy a hero!!

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