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Made a short game for a game jam, check it out here!
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Had to rush it a bit to fit the time frame, maybe I'll come back to it later and polish it a bit 🤔

I was gone on vacation for a while but it's time to get back to posting progress! Units now gain experience in combat and can level up. I'm thinking of keeping the upgrades automatic for now, picking an option for every unit sounds like it would take up too much time for players
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Testing out some new sprites for the terrain, I wonder if this style fits 🤔 I think I like the grass and dirt more this way, the water still needs work.
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Units now have a list of passive abilities. I just need to find room for displaying their experience level because that's the next thing we're going to add 😅
Is there any other crucial information that I'm missing? 🤔
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I have been updating the tech tree. Now there are a lot more techs available and it's not all displayed on one page. I should probably make the window smaller in that case 🤔
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Hello turn-based enjoyers and happy #TurnBasedThursday ! Big thanks to @moiraigames.bsky.social for hosting!

Desu Vult is an old school turn-based strategy game where you build up an army and use powerful spells to defeat enemies ranging from random penguins to religious fanatics.

Made some new sprites for a lot of the resources on the map! They are still not final but it's better than using random pictures out of google search 😅
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Hello turn-based enjoyers and happy #TurnBasedThursday ! Big thanks to @dieinthedungeon.bsky.social for hosting

Desu Vult is an old school turn-based strategy game where you build up an army and use powerful spells to defeat enemies ranging from random penguins to religious fanatics.

Haven't posted any updates recently, I'm still mostly working on boring UI stuff (my favorite). Here's a notification for new turns. Hoping to show off some new sprites soon!
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Hello turn-based enjoyers and happy #TurnBasedThursday ! Big thanks to @slavesofmagic.bsky.social for hosting

Desu Vult is an old school turn-based strategy game where you build up an army and use powerful spells to defeat enemies ranging from random penguins to religious fanatics.

Roads now properly connect to each other! And the info under every city is a bit clearer and now matches the player color.
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Hello turn-based fans and happy #TurnBasedThursday ! Big thanks to @theshaggydev.bsky.social for hosting 😀

Desu Vult is an old school turn-based strategy game where you build up an army and use powerful spells to defeat enemies ranging from random penguins to religious fanatics.

I'm experimenting with more buildable structures for the engineer such as walls
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I want to add some neutral units/buildings for players to interact with. For now it's the UN Bases which will spawn over time.
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Improved the hp bar a bit. Still doesn't look great but its better. It also changes colors from green to red. No more numbers displayed on the map - its all in the menu now.
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Experimenting with where to display passive unit skills. I put them on the right side of the menu as smaller buttons for now but they don't have icons yet. That is probably where the current buffs/debuffs will also go to.
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Hello turn-based enjoyers and happy #TurnBasedThursday !
Big thanks to @darenn.bsky.social for hosting!

Desu Vult is an old school turn-based strategy game where you build up an army and use powerful spells to defeat enemies ranging from random penguins to religious fanatics.

The end turn button now cycles through all available actions before you can end your turn.
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Thank you! That is the vibe I'm going for 😀

Still working on some UI improvements, a few more new icons and a new End Turn button. I also added snow on the top of the map! ❄️
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I put some icons instead of the text at the top menu, looks a bit better now. Will have to add some hover text to them next.
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Thanks, I'll make it slower for sure. Just testing out how it looks

Thanks, glad you like it 😆

Oh wow I forgot that this was that similar. 😅 But I will switch it up a lot in the future

Early draft for the main menu.
I'll just put something together so I don't have to worry about UI for a while and can do something more pleasant 😅
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Hello turn-based fans and happy #TurnBasedThursday ! Big thanks to @placeholder.games for hosting

Desu Vult is an old school turn-based strategy game where you build up an army and use powerful spells to defeat enemies ranging from random penguins to religious fanatics.

I was picking a new font today for the descriptions. I ended up liking this one: RobotoCondensed
It has a slightly sci-fi theme but is still easy to read
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Not at the moment. I'll figure out the balance later, I just want to find out if its more fun for players this way.

Right now there is no limit to how many of a building you can have. So for example you can only build science buildings and get a ton of science. I wonder if this is really more fun than having 1 of each though 🤔
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