Development Info WarSim Shoots the Craps

[Saint_Proverbius]

Tags: WarSim: The Realm of Aslona

WarSim: The Realm of Aslona has been updated to 0.8.3.5. For those who don't know, it's an ASCII, kingdom ruling, procedurally generated, monster training, wonder roguelike. It's currently on sale for 35% off, to boot. Here's like 3% of the update:

THE GREAT GNOME CASINO (82 features)

For those of you who have discovered the nested away little gnome village in the south, have you ever wished to gamble away your gold on their beloved local games, Biggleroll and Gnome Insult Battling? Well now you can, following a new dialogue informing either the ruler of the village or the owner of the village tavern you can introduce the concept of gambling to them. Come back the following year and you will find things have changed!

• Added new dialogue with Bongles the Great that starts the Gnome Casino event
• Added new dialogue with Gribble the Drink that starts and alternate intro to the Gnome Casino event
• Added casino invite event
• Added village casino first arrival event
• Added secret code '69' that can be entered in main gnome village screen to automatically start the first arrival event and transform the village
• Added secret code '69' that when entered on the new casino screen will automatically add all 3 types of visitors to the village at once (Nomads/Vampires/Coastmen)
• Added ability for Drylands Nomads faction (if alive and not demonic) have 50% chance of being present at casino each year
• Added ability for Coastmen from Shaian have 50% chance of being present at casino each year
• Added ability for Baiaa Vampires (if alive and if Baiaa door open) have 50% chance of being present at casino each year

That's an insane amount of stuff to just add some gambling. That's just 8 of the 82 featurettes of the gambling.

Spotted at Temple of the Roguelike

 

[DoomIhlVaria]

Looks like a single-player version of a bunch of BBS door games combined rather than a roguelike.

 

[The Jester]

Wastelander404

 

[Axel_Violet]

I bought this game a while ago, and its quite fun for its simplicity. There is grave imbalances, but you'll enjoy it as long as you take it for what it is.

And the dev seems to be a super awesome guy who actively interacts with the community.

 

[luj1]

Lmao, it must have taken a minute to make that trailer. I like this guy's blunt honesty.

 

[Wastelander404]

Hey, dev here! Cheers for the post and comments guys!

DoomIhlVaria I've heard the comparison to BBS a lot, I've not played them myself though.

Axel_Violet Cheers for the support and the kind words mate, there definitely are some imbalances with economics and stuff I need to address, though the imbalances with what races you get in your world and the way it loads out are sort intended to be a bit unbalanced and random.

luj1 Haha, yeah that trailer was made in 2017 when I was first submitting Warsim to steam, I didn't think anyone would play the game and just slapped something together. Terrible trailer for sure.

I'm trying to get a new one produced here in the UK but it's been a slow process as I'm trying to sort a live action part.

Cheers though, glad you like my honesty haha

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

Hey, dev here! Cheers for the post and comments guys!

Not a problem, dude. I like the level of simulation you toss in. I read most of that thread on Temple of the Roguelike. Some of those updates are pretty crazy. How spaghetti has your code gotten?

 

[Wastelander404]

Saint_Proverbius Hahah glad to hear you like it mate, and yeah it's pretty wild at the moment codewise. I'm at 550k lines of code and I end up in some areas of code sometimes and honestly don't even recognise it anymore and think who the fuck wrote this shit.

 

[Mortmal]

Pretty good so far , although i already found a bug, the goblin slaver was slain and replaced by antoher one, now they sell at 1000 gold each. I dont think its intended.

 

[Joggerino]

Great game, best change logs

 

[Wastelander404]

Cheers guys

The goblin thing isn't a bug btw, the Goblin slavers have a heap of different possible personalities. Off the top of my head there are:

* Goblins for 1 gold each
* Goblins for 3 gold each
* Goblins for 1k (Expensive as hell but the slaver also gives you a higher tribute of gold each year)
* Free goblins (There's less of them every year but they're free)
* "Goblins" (You hire them but it's just a bunch of enslaved humans painted green so you gain slaves instead of goblins)
* Berserkers (You gain a tougher goblin unit instead of the normal tribal)
* Cheap Berserkers (1 gold each and berserkers)

There are more but I can't remember them right now

 

[Mortmal]

Ah ok.. but no one going to buy them at 1k.
It's a good project and sympathic but it lack a bit of challenge to me, i was rolling over everyone quickly. Still worth having a look.

 

[Wastelander404]

Mortmal Yeah definitely, it's sort of a random roll of the game screwing you over kind of. It can change though. You can execute the goblin slaver if you don't like him and at some point a new one will show up. Do it too often though and no more will ever come.

They also get replaced naturally over time unless the player has paid for the slaver guards who protect them from the events.

As for the lack of challenge I feel you, some people struggle and others power through. There are a couple of ways to up the challenge:

* Play with the Insignificant Mortal race pack (will spawn the world with generally tough population)
* Solid or Insane mode (Start with basically nothing and 1 land)
* The cheat code 445 SURROUNDED BY BULKPIRES (Makes kingdoms 10x stronger but same land)

I'm the dev so I feel like with a game as broad and micromanageable as Warsim, knowing all the tricks means unless I get insanely unlucky I'm generally able to win or any difficulty. But the most challenging runs I've been able to playthrough are

Starting a new game and entering the 445 cheat code 2 times. It stacks and can go on until you break the games limits if you wish, but doing it twice means the rival kingdom of say 4000 Hobgoblins, becomes 40k hobs, do it again and it's 400k, do it 3 times and it's 4mil.

If any of those kingdoms attack you, you've got no chance.

The ultimate hardest difficulty thing I can think of is to start insane mode, with the insignificant mortal race pack, and then use the 445 cheat 3 times. You'd be essentially playing as a tiny independent village in a world of giant monster empires.

Cheers for the kind words about the game btw mate, I appreciate you playing!