Castle Sim Game

A sim game using WebGL to render 3D graphics

Control a castle and all it's rooms and inhabitants. Keep your citizens and staff happy in the midst of enemy invasions, famine, and other disasters.

To view the current version, go to: http://castlesim.azurewebsites.net/

Notes

Game Elements

Possible Resources

• Food
  • To feed your servants
  • To hosts feasts in the castle
• Timber
  • For making rooms and adding to the castle
  • Used for peasant housing?
• Gold
  • For paying militia
  • For building more luxurious rooms
  • Payments and treaties with other nations
• Tools?
  • For building more advanced buildings
• Stone?
  • It is a castle after all

Advanced Resources

• Silk
• Wine
• Spices
• Salt
• jewelry
• leather
• tobacco
• herbs (medicinal)
• dye
• cotton
• charcoal
• fish
• flowers
• gold
• diamonds / gems
• hemp
• books
• sugarcane
• whale oil
• slaves

Citizens

• Servants
  • Provide service inside of the castle
  • Need food and happiness
  • Riot if morale is too low
    • Kill or frighten nobles
    • Kill military?
    • Then leave
    • Have to bring in militia to dissolve riot
    • Some servants die in the toussle
• Peasants
  • Provide food from farming
  • Provide timber
  • Need protection from invaders
• Militia
  • Provide protection from invaders
  • Need gold for payment
• Nobles
  • Provide gold from takes
  • Need service inside the castle

Possible Ratings

• Cleanliness / Hygiene
  • Chance of disease
  • based on # of rooms vs # of servants vs # of nobles
• Morale
  • Increase
    • Idle time
    • Nice rooms (servants quarters)
    • Increasing their tech
    • Nice resources?
    • Entertainment (feasts)
  • Decrease
    • Starvation
    • Working servants harder?
    • Crowding
    • Torture other servants
    • War
    • Oppression
  • Workers make mistakes when tired
  • Chance of rioting
  • Previous morale scores affect current morale
  • Servants make demands? Then demands being met affects morale
  • Court decisions?
  • Religion?
• Reputation
  • View from the outside world
  • Chance of getting loan or help during war
  • Better trading prices
  • Chance of being attacked?
• Luxury
  • Higher luxury attracts better / more nobles
• Efficiency
  • Servants over- or under-performing
• Alignment
  • How evil or good the king is
  • Evil -> bloodlust, killing/starving servants, torture enemies, import slaves, force peasants to work even when they are unhappy, force nobles to stay by kidnapping families
  • Good -> fair to all, nice, not be evil
• Peasant happiness
  • trials / disputes
  • taxes
  • entertainment
  • safety from attackers
• Fear
  • Stops servants / peasants from rioting

Efficiencies?

• Food efficiency
• Militia efficiency
• Servant efficiency

Events

• feast
• banquet
• holiday
  • christmas
  • easter
  • harvest
  • may day (you know, with the maypole and stuff)
• joust
• tourney
• fair
• plays
• sports
• hunting
• animal entertainment
• arenas
• duels
• fight club
• send out raiding party

Disasters

• Drought
  • Weatherman can predict it
• Attack from other nation
  • Scout can warn ahead
  • options:
    • fight
    • hide in castle
    • bribe
• Food rotting
• Village fire

Rooms

Rooms (Necessary)

• hall
  • Continue to level-up
  • Unlocks more rooms
• kichen
  • Increase food efficiency
  • hygiene
  • luxury
• bedroom
  • allow noble to move in
• servants quarters
  • hygiene
  • servants efficiency
  • morale
• lavatory
  • increase hygiene
• storeroom (non-food)
  • store more resources?
  • efficiency
• pantry (food)
  • store more resources?
  • food efficiency
  • hygiene
• common room
• chapel
  • morale
  • religion system?
  • luxury
• stewards quarters
  • luxury
  • effeciency
• bailey / ward / courtyard
  • luxury
  • morale
  • required for certain events? or just make them more effective
• drawing room (parlor)
  • morale
  • luxury
• study (office)
  • efficiency?
• throne room
  • luxury
  • solving disputes have bigger gains (reputation, alignment, morale?)
• cellar
  • Wine?
• closet
• 1/2 bedroom

Rooms (Luxury)

• wash room (bath house?)
  • increase hygiene
• master bedroom (for king)
  • luxury
• lords chamber (suite)
  • luxury
• cesspit
• theater
  • luxury
  • morale
• courtroom (archives)
• alchemy lab (apothecary)
• observatorium
• enchanting room
• air lift / stair
• quarry
• wardrobe
  • luxury
• tailor
• minstrels gallery
• hospital
• solar
• buttery
  • luxury
• bottlery
• library
  • luxury
  • research points?
• brewery
  • luxury
• treasury
  • luxury
  • increase gold max?
• garden
• oratory (private praying room)

Rooms (Military)

• brothel
• stables
  • hygiene
  • military
• keep
• barracks (and mess hall)
• casemate (musketry)
• gatehouse
• armory
• forge
• dungeon
• oubliette

Room Categories

• Living
• Military
• Main / Necessary
• Cooking
• Misc
• Advanced
• Luxury?

Types of Nobles

• Baron
• Earl / Count
• Duke
• Grand Duke
• Regent
• Prince
• King
• Emporer
• Merchant
• Aristocrat

VISION

• Open the browser window
• We see a green field of grass gently blowing in the wind with a blue sky and clouds scuttling in the background
• We see we have 10 timber at the top, but no other resources
• Our eyes are drawn to our only clear option: a button to build a hall
• Clicking the button will depress it and create a rotating dashed border around the button
• When we move the mouse over to the field then an outline or a transparent version of the hall is shown over the cursor
• At the top we see it costs 5 wood and will leave us with 5
• As we move our mouse onto elligible spots to place the hall (which is marked by a green glow) then the hall snaps to nearby locations
• Clicking will "CHINK" the hall into place in a cloud of dust as its construction begins (immediate or wait?)
• A new option appears to hire a servant
• The food resource appears
• ...
• Advisors

Keys to making it fun

• Easy to start a game (game auto starts when you open the browser)
• Clear and simple choices to begin
• Limit the view of advanced resources and rooms
• Unlock each citizen: servant -> peasant -> noble -> militia
• Unlock resources: timber -> food -> gold
• Keep slow paced enough that you can play leisurely
• Create way to spend down time
  • Clicking a button to get ahead
  • "visit the kingdom"? and do what?
• Gray out / don't show other room tabs
• Juiciness (watch that video again)

TODO

Gameplay

• Better noble AI (wait longer to move in, move out if too dirty)
• Servants move to other rooms to clean
• servants use stairs
• hire militia
• Each servant chooses his morale?
• Starvation affects morale
• Shrink trash model when cleaned
• Servants should eat food
• Show resources (gold)
• Make awesome UI
• Show stone subtraction on UI when select click room button

ThreeJS

• Make it so that rooms dont blend together
  • Make side walls different from back walls?
  • Construct room shells out of three-js generated boxes?
• Shadows
• Cut out section of room blob when hovering room over it
• Add grass sprites
• BUG: Transparency on room looks weird
• BUG: Light casting to room above the selected room

Models

• Trash model
• More rooms...
• Room furniture
• Update models to use JPGs intead of PNGs (and use better textures)

Other

• Sound effects

Microtransactions

• Skin packs
  • Holloween skin pack with ghost servants

Credit for the wonderful skybox goes to http://reije081.home.xs4all.nl/skyboxes/