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Hi, I'm Jakub and I used to dream to publish a novel before turning 40, but life is life -- yesterday was my 40th birthday and I'm publishing a game instead.<p>A few months ago I started experimenting with building a turn based tactics game with a combat system heavily inspired by the Battle for Wesnoth. The main reason was that I could not make Wesnoth work on my phone :D I iterated on it over and over, polishing graphics, finding background music, balancing units, and here it is. There is a fully playable skirmish mode -- 3 factions x 3 units x 3 levels. AI opponent, 4 difficulty levels, fog of war, time of day changing unit stats, various terrain types and traits (poison, healing, others). It runs in the browser and -- if you choose to sign in -- it syncs across devices. You can start on desktop and finish on mobile.<p>I wanted to make it casual, but also serious at the same time. For me many games are either too complex and require much time (like most of 4x) or too naive in terms of combat system or graphics (like many mobile games).<p>I'm developing campaigns -- I already have a rough scenario for the first campaign, and the first playable match (not released y
Hi, I'm Jakub and I used to dream to publish a novel before turning 40, but life is life -- yesterday was my 40th birthday and I'm publishing a game instead.<p>A few months ago I started experimenting with building a turn based tactics game with a combat system heavily inspired by the Battle for Wesnoth. The main reason was that I could not make Wesnoth work on my phone :D I iterated on it over and over, polishing graphics, finding background music, balancing units, and here it is. There is a fully playable skirmish mode -- 3 factions x 3 units x 3 levels. AI opponent, 4 difficulty levels, fog of war, time of day changing unit stats, various terrain types and traits (poison, healing, others). It runs in the browser and -- if you choose to sign in -- it syncs across devices. You can start on desktop and finish on mobile.<p>I wanted to make it casual, but also serious at the same time. For me many games are either too complex and require much time (like most of 4x) or too naive in terms of combat system or graphics (like many mobile games).<p>I'm developing campaigns -- I already have a rough scenario for the first campaign, and the first playable match (not released y