This was an important time for Colossal Citadels: multiple playtest sessions revealed some great opportunities to streamline gameplay and improve the learning curve. Besides that, there were a bunch of content additions!

Glad midsommar! Here is the first summer blogpost :) It brings lot of new cool things since the last update! Most notable are Finite Resources and Procedural Forest Types. Read more in the full post.

This update brings a lot of new gameplay content, including shield designs and building designs. In this post I’ll also describe some experiments and plans!

Hi! These two weeks I did a bit of streams where I’m adding some new sacrifice-themed content and some gameplay changes!

Hi hi, it’s been a long time! It’s time to lift the veil on the development a bit! :) Now I do periodic live coding sessions on twitch where I play Colossal Citadels until I encounter an issue, and then proceed to fixing it. You also have a chance to play the game at periodic public playtest sessions at Game Habitat in Sweden :)

There were so many changes since last time! I tried to list them at the bottom of the page, but you also can have a glance over them in this video. I also told a little about what other games and genres inspired me to shape Colossal Citadels as they are right now. Here it is:

So, here it is. Another huge update with mechanics that change the gameplay completely.

This period consisted mostly of rebalancing and changing numbers randomly until I feel better! As a result, we got much more challenging and stable gameplay, but still there are a lot of issues and now I want to steer player a bit from exploration to town-building. And of course there was a lot of bugfixing - I solved A LOT of old issues, including some game design ones. Anyway I’m starting to be happy with the result, which means I’m going to draft some new people to test it out. BONUS: some soundtracks in the end of that post.

The most important and impactful (and sort of spontaneous!) change that I just made and that appears to fit quite well was procedural passives. I’ll explain what shortly what does that mean. But it’s funny that they extend the extensive list of procedurally-generated things Colossal Citadels already has, and I didn’t quite plan that!

Hey hey! Happy new year! It’s been a long time. But now I finally finished signing a contract with my new employer so that I’m allowed work on this side project in my free time, and now I’m returning to my workflow (yep, that’s how it works with some big companies). So I’m back!

And I bring lots and lots of new changes, some of them are quite fundamental.

“Waiting for player2’s turn” message on a black/locked screen is boring, you should at least try to do something about it.

I just made a tiny post with some thoughts around sim-turns and parallel gameplay in turn-based games. There are some well-known (and not so well-known) ideas such as next turn predictions, alternating turn phases, planning by controlling enemies, and some major and minor concerns about simultaneous turn game design.