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Hey Architects!

(Still workshopping that one. Dunno if it's as catchy as "hey farmers", but we're gonna need a version for this project. Ideas?)

Recently over on Discord, I put up some polls about the kind of side-project you'd all like to say while I take a development hiatus from Gorge Valley. (which, btw, if you aren't on the discord, you should totally take it out if you wanna see polls and posts fresh off the press)I REALLY wanted to cut my teeth on a new game project to breathe a bit of new life into me, and the folks over in the server voted heavily in favour of this new little idea.

At the moment, I'm calling it "Growing Kingdom", though the name is subject to change. After all, Gorge Valley started out being called "Project Cow Village" for its first few months, so obviously my in-development names are far from creative to say the least.

So, what's Growing Kingdom?

Growing Kingdom is going to be a fatfur medieval city builder where you build a sprawling kingdom to tame a land of vast resources, rich magic, and plentiful food for a once-starving population, and fend off attacks from monsters that call the land their own.

Ambitious for a prototype that is currently two anthropomorphic creatures on a grid of grey squares, I know. But... we're working on it.

I've spent the last week tinkering around and throwing together this EXTREMELY simple proof of concept. Meet Pemmy and Cait, your first two colonists and resident members of the Architects' Guild! They'll be your first companions in taming this wild world.

The beginning stages of laying groundwork is obviously never the most exciting, but I promise that I'll have more good stuff to show soon as soon as it's ready! I hope that y'all are excited about this project, and if you have ideas, please feel free to share them down below! We're currently in the "blue sky" phase of development where there are no bad ideas, so I'd love to hear suggestions y'all have!

Until next time, love y'all. :)

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WaifuDekai

Really curious how this project will evolve 👀

Blaze-0

Excited, love when new games come out from great working developers

Rev

Awesome! (Also, "Architects" sounds good to me)

Rev

Can't wait to hear more about the intended mechanics!

Julhern

So is this gonna be mutual wg or just female like Gorge Valley? Also if you decide not to go with “architects”, maybe “builders” or “mayor”? Something along those lines

Korota's Creations

YES. I have always wanted fat/expansion kink city builder stuff so I am already really excited to see more of this. Suggestion-wise, I think if there's gonna be a fattening mechanic for citizens, I'd imagine it being a trade-off, like, fatter citizens provide more money, but build more slowly. Being able to adjust things like food consumption for each citizen(and for the general population) would be good too, so you can designate some for working and some for fattening and gold production. Might be some permanent "job assignments" with a spells or items you can get that turn them into stuff like a blueberry to produce juice, or a cow to produce milk. For raiding monsters and stuff, I had the idea of something like having factions that initially start out hostile and conduct raids, but you have diplomacy options like paying tribute to them to prevent attacks, as well as an option of OVERpaying tribute, and doing that enough improves relations by making them get too fat and lazy to attack you anymore, and unlocks unique stuff you can buy from them, potentially the stuff that lets you turn citizens into cows and berries and such.

Prism7

I absolutely love this game's premise! I wish you the best of luck on developing it, Dandy, but as always, take your time with it, no rush! 🥰

Fresh

“I am a fucking architect!”

Dusty Fox

I do love the start up idea of it as well as the character design too I’ll definitely be looking forward to seeing how the gameplay goes in the future Don’t over work yourself though do remember to take self care and breaks

Uma Bomber

Gonna run my city with a war economy

Jack Wolf

This looks really cool can't wait to see how it develops

dabb46

Ooooo wonder if this is like, growing the ruler of the city or its different inhabitants? There's so many fun ideas u can do!!

Dandy's Chest

Yep, it'll be all of the above! You'll be able to choose between a male or female avatar as the lord of the colony, and you'll be able to fatten up all your colonists. :)

Dandy's Chest

Ooooh, good suggestions all around. And yeah, the tradeoff for fattening colonists is definitely the plan! They'll have more "exp" and be able to build new buildings and use more advanced abilities/actions, but they'll move slower and be able to actually fit into less buildings the bigger they get! :)

The Crazy Squid

Building strong foundations on this one Architect… Loving this proof of concept. A suggestion could be to have a customisable player character. Speaking of which, is the player the mayor or the city planner? Both?

Dandy's Chest

Thank you so much! >:D I might do a proper customizable player character, yeah! The player is going to be a lord/lady of a newfound kingdom, so definitely all of the above :P

Euskalduna

DANDY YOU CAN'T KEEP MAKING NEW GAMES

BigPen

very exciting to see! looks very promising and knowing it will be pure quality coming from you.

MforMetropolis

Requisite Architect memes aside, you could have both people who commission you to build certain buildings, and co-architects who help you build in certain styles that attract different sorts of people, while some styles are also preferable for certain functions (i.e., a co-architect that specializes in a Art Deco-esque style is best suitable for commercial buildings like banks or shops, while a co-architect that specializes in a Brutalist-esque architecture lends themself well to building fortifications or fortified buildings - mainly because they have magically invented reinforced concrete). There's an engineer character who's constantly at odds with the various co-architects (the classic rivalry between architects and engineers), but who also gives the player, Pemmy and Cait the low-down on what is currently possible for you to build.

VolcanicKeegan

I can't wait to see what you make! I'm rooting for you!

BoogieYoons

This is great Dandy, very good work, glad for my goat. I may have a question about the game, is it like a game 18+ with some sexy stuff or is it just THE game but you put some sexy (like a bonus) Sorry for my english :(.

Dandy's Chest

Hmmm... honestly, some sort of Civ 5-esque system where you have certain advisors that constantly request different kinds of buildings could be a fun addition

Dandy's Chest

It'll be similar to Gorge Valley, so hopefully a good mix of kink/NSFW elements with proper gameplay! :)

Xizrec

Could become something rimworld-y