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A Battle in the Rain

Currently under development, Hollow Knight is the first game by Team Cherry, an indie games team comprised of 3 people based in South Australia.

Hollow Knight is a challenging, beautiful action adventure game set in the vast, inter-connected underground kingdom of Hallownest. A 2D action game with an emphasis on skill and exploration, Hollow Knight has you fighting a fearsome host of deadly creatures, avoiding intricate traps and solving ancient mysteries as you make your own way through fungal wastes, forests of bone, and ruined underground cities.

The atmosphere is eerie and sometimes unnerving, but there is a good-hearted core of humour and levity in there too, especially when conversing with all of the weird and wonderful NPCs you’ll find along the way. Hollow Knight has beautiful traditional art, fluid and responsive action, challenging but fair gameplay and a bizarre insect world begging to be explored and conquered.
Features

A beautiful, eerie world of insects and heroes.
Traditional 2D animation brings creatures and characters to life.
Challenging gameplay that can be difficult but always fair.
Fluid and responsive action allows you to flow through combat like water.
A collection of challenging “feats” the most skilled players can strive for.
Find powerful new abilities and spells on your adventure to grow stronger and open new paths.
Speak with a weird, intriguing cast of characters.
Explore a vast, connected underground world.
Scour the world for hidden secrets – powerful artifacts, piles of riches, and surprising encounters.
Go Dream Diving! Venture into the minds of friends and enemies and discover the strange worlds that await within.
Head to town to seek advice, purchase new items, and chat with quirky townsfolk.
Hidden areas full of the toughest challenges and battles, for expert players.
Ancient mysteries hidden about the world waiting to be solved by the most observant investigators.

Hearthlands is a real-time strategy game in which you take a role of a king in your own medieval/fantasy realm. You can not control your subjects directly. Instead you focus on city-building, resource management, diplomacy, heroes, magic and other things a typical king deals with on a daily basis. The world of the game, maps, characters and opponents are procedurally generated.

The game is very flexible: you can create a powerful empire and rule your vassals with an iron grip, or establish a humble fishermen's village. Or build an impressive temple complex. Or found a small, bur well-defended outpost. Or be a host of a wizard's manor.

All characters, from a hauler to a hero have their own minds and behavior patterns. If you like games like The Settlers of Pharaoh you know how pleasant and interesting it is to watch people scurry about.

Implemented features

Build a medieval city;
Play the game the way like it: experiment with sandbox settings or try to survive in harsh environment;
Keep your people happy by providing them with necessary resources and services;
Gather resources, produce goods and build industries;
See reports and tune up your economy;
Build an army and protect your city from monsters and invasions;
Trade and conduct diplomacy with neighbor realms, or go to war with them;
Achievements;
English, German and Spanish localization.



Planned features

Heroes and quests;
Better music.

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World Map

There are two types of maps in the game: world map and local map. World map shows the locations of your city in relation to your opponents. There are also going to be special locations on the world map like ruins, lairs and such. Both types of maps are procedurally generated.

The game has a diplomacy system. Diplomacy allows you to trade with your buddies, conquer your rivals, protect your cities from invasions etc. AI opponents are not scripted and act much like everyone else — based on their own understanding of the situation.

Local Map

Local map will not just be a place where you build your city and gather resources. There can be randomly generated encounters, such as: goblin camps, graveyards, wizard towers etc. Goblins may steal from you, launch an invasion or serve as mercenaries; raveyards may occasionally spawn skeletons; a single wizard may become a powerful ally or a menacing enemy. These are a few examples of how a local map can be enhanced.

You may not have all of the resources needed on your local map, which encourages you to find another way of getting them by trading with other cities, demanding tribute from your rivals, asking your allies for help etc.

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City Building and Population

One of the important parts of the game is building a prosperous medieval city.

Houses you build attract migrants and provide your citizens with a place to live. Almost every building needs a certain amount of workers, so you need to make sure you have enough houses and population to keep up with your growing economy.

You need to supply your people with food and luxuries. If all the needs of a house are satisfied it evolves to a more advanced house, which has higher capacity, pays higher taxes, but needs even more resources to evolve further.

There are 8 types of food (apples, turnips, fish, honey, eggs, cheese, wurst and bread) each having its own nutrition value, 4 types of alcohol (cider, beer, wine and mead) and 4 types of luxury resources (furniture, boots, clothes, and pillows). Yes, pillows is a luxury resource.

Most advanced houses may also require certain appeal value for the area they are built in. While parks, statues and fountains increase the appeal, production buildings decrease it greatly. No one wants to live near a sawmill or a pigstry.

Resources

The game has a lot of resource types and this number will only increase.

Most of the resources can be spent on different needs. For example, grain can be turned into flour, and then into bread (food), or you can feed it to chickens to get eggs (also food) and feathers. Feathers can then be turned into pillows (luxury) or arrows (military). Also grain is used in beer production (along with hops) and as a fodder for horses.

Other Things

There are four cultures to choose from, each with unique industries and special traits.

The game has several types of units which you can build your army of. Military part of the game is strongly dependant on the economy: you will need a supply of iron, wood, leather, and other resources to equip your soldiers with weapons and armor.

You can research various improvements for industry, ecomony, military and diplomacy.

You will be able to attract heroes, powerful individuals, at your service by complying with their demands. This may include building a special house (for example, Wizard's Tower for a wizard type hero), achieving certain condition with your city, maintain a certain amount of resources, complete a quest etc. Heroes gain XP, level up and have their own inventory. Heroes can be used not only as warriors: for example, dwarven hero can also work in the mine.

Magic and religion is something we're definitely going to add to the game, though we aren't sure how exactly and if those two are going to combine.

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Platforms

Hearthlands is available on Windows, Mac OS and Linux.

Play as Cassie and Fay, two spudette sisters who are out exploring the universe in search of their grandfather Jiji, who has been incarcerated by the evil federation, The Eclipse.
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Main Features
Craft hundreds of weapons for your spaceship!

Craft missile, shrapnel, wave, laser, and railgun type weapons! Explore the universe and unearth the weapon components to aid you in crafting these weapons!
Craft Weapons
Hire engineers to become part of your crew!

Engineers are your spaceship’s lifeline. Train them to increase their skill, get them to research powerful technology, and craft weapons for you ship!
Hire Engineers
Explore dozens of planets and galaxies, or why not explore the whole universe!

Take your ship out to explore hundreds of procedurally generated planets!
Explore Planets
Gather resources to upgrade your spaceships and craft weapons!

Gather antimatter, plasma, ores, nanofibres, biomass, $tarch, and weapon components to craft your weapons!
Gather Resources
Combat evil galactic broccoli and extraterrestrial carrot spaceships and many more!

Encounter all sorts of space races such as potatoes, yams, tofu, ginger, and a spud-load more!
Combat Evil Veggies
Encounter epic boss battles!

Battle the toughest and most unique bosses the universe has to offer!