Necromancer Nonsense

About

It's the blood moon! Time to take over the world... or it would be if every other half baked necromancer and vampire wasn't trying the same thing.

Capture buildings and locations full of bits and bobs you can use to build your army, and conquer all!

Made in 1 month for the "Games for Blind Gamers" game jam! So should be fully blind accessible.

There is a tutorial in game, and instructions are below, but there is also a video where I explain everything that is happening in the first two tutorial levels as the text to speech gives updates!

Gameplay

Necromancer nonsense is a Real Time Strategy game focused on buildings and not individual units, similar to "Cell" games made during the flash era.

Instead of telling units what to do, you tell your controlled locations to send all of its forces to go to another location, either in attack or defense. 

Different buildings produce different units and have different production speeds, some have special powers!

If it's hard to imagine, it's real time Risk. You tell your armies to move from one region to another, to capture a region you have to defeat all forces there, or you can reinforce another one.

The more you control, the faster troops are produced. But be mindful not to overextend!

Accessibility features

The game was designed to be as accessible as possible, so has the following features.

Full screen reader support is built in across the game

Sound Library menu that explains the purpose of all audio in game, and allows boosting or lowering any individual sound.

Keyboard only controls that are remappable

Press the 1 key to enable color blind mode

Ability to slow down and speed up game play

Ability to pause game but continue giving orders

All important events during a level are recorded if something is missed

Controls

Arrow keys/WASD to move pointer around the grid

Space/Enter to pick options

Escape in menus returns you title screen. 

In game, escape closes any submenus/lists, which may result in an unpause. If pressed and no submenu is open, it pulls open the "quit level" submenu.  

1 enables color blind mode, adding shapes around buildings based on owner. 

Remappable controls

Listed is default key, all can be remapped in game

Pause - Backspace, allows movement, examining, and giving orders while paused.

Open event list: Z, pause game, whenever a notification sound  sound is played g, details are added to this list.

View location history: C, pauses game, gives information on everything happened to inspected location along with seconds since it happened.

Jump to endangered: X, jumps to next threatened building.  If not moving it may have taken you to last endangered, so pressing again takes to first.

Toggle music: = 

Lower game speed: Left bracket

Increase game speed: Right bracket

Mechanics

Move around map to inspect strategic locations on the grid using arrows or WASD.

Press select (space/enter) on one you control to enter command mode. Pressing select to tells units to Defend (which gives different buildings different boosts and keeps your newly created units home), or press a direction to order all troops to start going that way until a new order is given.

Buildings either get an increase to production speed or activate a special ability in wait mode. More monsters can not be created past a certain threshold, so you will get an alert when that threshold is reached. 

When an important event happens a voice over will play announcing it. If a sound plays during the voice over, it means another event happened while voice over was happening, so that event has been sent to event list.

Capture a building by having your units kill all enemy units and reduce building HP to 0. After a building is newly captured, its max HP will rise to full quickly. HP lost from battle takes longer to recover.

Win by taking all buildings from the enemy.

An SFX will play if a unit sent from the building you are examining meets enemy units in the field before reaching the destination.

A noise will play if the building you are examining is hit by an enemy troops.

Troop types

Tutorial units:

• Graveyards spawn Zombies, bad at attacking, good at defending,
• Boneyards spawn skeletons, bad at defending, good at attacking
• Cauldrons will slowly spawn Flesh Golems. Sending  zombies creates a flesh golem much faster faster. Strong in attack and defense. 

Campaign units - spoilers ahead!

• Village spawn rate increases dramatically as more vampires hang around the village. Medium attackers and defenders.
• Mummies left in their pyramids buff the creation rate and healing rate of all owned buildings. Strong fighters as well.

Credits:

Team:

EricBomb - Developer

Bearded Vortex - Voice Over

Patricia - UI accessibility expert

SuperFreq - Helper

Used assets:

PeriTune - Background music

Zapsplat- SFX

Kenny - 1 bit troops and locations

Omniclause - Title screen art

BatuhnK - UI art

freesound.org audio:

https://freesound.org/people/qubodup/sounds/738437/