Warsim: The Realm of Aslona News

Hey guys, just a follow up to say to any of the 100s of people who've picked up Warsim over the last few days in the 30% sale welcome!

And to everyone commenting, dming, emailing, and so on, thank you! It's been a pleasure and it's been very lovely to get such kind comments
The AMA on /r/gamedev has gone fantastically too with over 150 comments and nearly 1000 upvotes so far.

Thank you everyone :)

Huw

Hello everyone, I've been working a while on this content update as a big thank you to everyone for their support in helping Warsim reach 30'000 copies sold online! For a text based kingdom management game in 2021, that is surreal to me and it means I can work on this passion project for as long as I need!

I set out to do a number of things to celebrate this fantastic milestone and one of those was to make a 300 piece update, unfortunately I overshot it a little, so I added a few more things to push it to 333!

* Here's a video announcement about the 30k - https://youtu.be/iErWH8hmt1o
* And Warsim is currently 30% off for the 30k milestone. Though I will say, don't get your hopes up for 100% off if we make it to the 100k milestone, hahaha

Without further ado, here is the first section of the update, a new interesting character that will occupy and explore the realm.

[h3]ELYK THE MADMAN (32 features)[/h3]

Elyk the Madman is a new character you may encounter in Warsim. He's a perpetual drunk and a wildcard that once befriended can pop up on occasion all over the game and help you out. Once met you can go and get drunk with him at the Three Blades inn at the Artifact Market anytime using the new 'Drinking with a friend' system I've added to the game.

* Added new character to the game 'Elyk the Madman'
* Added ability to encounter Elyk in the Skullfields
* Added ability to encounter Elyk in the Blackmarket Dark Alley
* Added ability to encounter Elyk after buying a drink at the Dragon's Kneecap
* Added ability to encounter Elyk next to the guard gate in Darkdale
* Added ability to encounter Elyk after buying all of the boxes at Gohran's Artifacts
* Added Elyk appears randomly at the above locations each year
* Added Elyk to the Three Blades in after you meet him in one of the other locations
* Added ability to tell Elyk to begone (never see him again)
* Added ability to accept invite to drink with Elyk
* Added special screen if you try to drink with Elyk while already at max drunk level
* Added 7 random pre drink dialogues to Elyk
* Added random toast event to drinking with Elyk
* Added ability to suggest toasting with Elyk
* Added 10 random toast dialogues to Elyk
* Added 10 random drink buying events to Elyk
* Added rare random event 'Puke glass' to Elyk
* Added rare random event 'Dagger Scrawling' to Elyk
* Added rare random event 'Slap' to Elyk
* Added chance Elyk tells you a random story while drinking
* Added chance Elyk says a random dialogue while drinking
* Added special screen if you get too drunk while drinking with Elyk
* Added 5 random dialogues to Elyk for when you ask to stop drinking
* Added ability to ask Elyk to tell you a story
* Added 22 random Elyk dialogues
* Added 10 random Elyk stories
* Added ability to ask 7 different questions to Elyk
* Added Elyk entry fee event to Arena once you've met him
* Added Elyk riding a bear into battle random battle event once you've met him
* Added Elyk tapestry incident end of turn event
* Added Elyk life debt knight end of turn event
* Added Elyk goblin bet end of turn event

Hangover cures -

A slumbering oaf -

A new friend -

Hmm -

That's one mysterious way to get ale -

Biggleroll you say? -

[h3]THRONE ROOM ENCOUNTERS (7 features)[/h3]

Can never have too many of these, especially if you're the kind of person who deals with everyone in the throne room...*Shudders*

* Added throne room encounter 'Urine Bucket Crime'
* Added throne room encounter 'Fake Healing Potions'
* Added throne room encounter 'Egg the Castle'
* Added throne room encounter 'Dead Cult'
* Added throne room encounter 'I doth shout loudly'
* Added throne room encounter 'Makeshift watchtower'
* Added throne room encounter 'Trolls toll'

[h3]CHAMPION STATS SCREEN IMPROVEMENT (1 feature)[/h3]

I saw a talk on game design recently that opened my eyes to instances where a generic number is used to convey something and it made me think, so I've added a new section to champion stat screens to show with extra text what sort of strength a champion is, there are now 13 different ratings a champion can be based on their total battlescore from Absurdly weak, puny and weak, up to Elite and Absurdly Powerful.

* Added 13 different strength indicator texts 'As strong as a soldier / Elite / Absurdly Weak' etc

A weak hero -

A stronger one -

One of the best I found -

[h3]BANDIT EXECUTION EFFECT (15 features)[/h3]

It occured to me while watching a Warsim stream, that executing bandits in the throne room didn't have the effect it could, reducing bandit level. If you heard the king was giving the chop to every bandit in the throne room you might reconsider your ways!

* Fixed text bug with bandit execution event
* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Road robber' throne room encounter
* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Banditry' throne room encounter
* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Egg Stealer' throne room encounter
* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Guard killer' throne room encounter
* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Anarchist' throne room encounter
* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Peasant Killer' throne room encounter
* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Jester Killer' throne room encounter
* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Weapon Robber' throne room encounter
* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Caravan Robber' throne room encounter
* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Joker' throne room encounter
* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Farm Burner' throne room encounter
* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Bandit Revolt' throne room encounter
* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'New gang' throne room encounter
* Added -1 bandit level drop if you select execute in 'Bandit Rebel' throne room encounter

[h3]THE WORDS OF HEROES (5 features)[/h3]

Added some more words that can be said in the arena or in battle by heroes and champions!

* Added new champion insult 'I'll break your skull and drink the juice within!'
* Added new champion insult 'I'm gonna eat your fingers!'
* Added new champion insult 'I'll burp on your corpse!'
* Added new champion insult 'My sword is named death, and soon you shall meet it!'
* Added new champion insult 'And so we dance with death!'

[h3]NEW ITEMS (17 features)[/h3]

A heap more items to discover in the world!

* Added 'a silver skull ring with black diamonds for eyes' (Worth 610 gold)
* Added 'a gold skull ring with emeralds for eyes' (Worth 350 gold)
* Added 'a steel skull ring with amber for eyes' (Worth 60 gold)
* Added 'a silver snake ring with emeralds for eyes' (Worth 350 gold)
* Added 'a silver snake ring with diamonds for eyes' (Worth 510 gold)
* Added 'a gold snake ring with emeralds for eyes' (Worth 390 gold)
* Added 'a gold snake ring with diamonds for eyes' (Worth 690 gold)
* Added 'a large black diamond' (Worth 650 gold)
* Added 'a strange floppy sword that is soft to touch' (Worth 110 gold)
* Added 'a small golden duck statue' (Worth 110 gold)
* Added 'a cactus made of gold' (Worth 256 gold)
* Added 'a cactus of tiny swords' (Worth 145 gold)
* Added 'a crude wooden statue of a rattlesnake' (Worth 7 gold)
* Added 'a frozen dragons tongue' (Worth 156 gold)
* Added 'a cursed gold nugget' (Worth 25 gold)
* Added 'a pair of lace stockings' (worth 10 gold) (credit Cat)
* Added 'a rabbit's foot' (worth 4 gold) (credit Cat)

[h3]HERO NAMES EXPANDED (246 features)[/h3]

Name suffix additions are thing that can be added to random name suffixes. For example a character could be called Jorg the Ugly, but the suffix 'The Ugly' itself can be further randomised so it could be Jorg the Ugly Staffmaster, etc. With 100s of new additions to the many pre-existing name suffixes there are now 1000s more possibilities!

There were too many to include directly in the changelog so I've had to remove them, to see the full list of all 246 of them see this new wiki entry - https://warsim-the-realm-of-aslona.fandom.com/wiki/New_character_name_prefixes_added_in_Warsim_0.8.4.8?venotify=created

* Added 246 new hero name suffixes

[h3]BUGFIXES (3 features)[/h3]

* Fixed issue with some drinking events being overwritten by Nairolfs Party drinking text
* Fixed raid system crash bug (credit u/ThusSniffedZizek42)
* Fixed champion banner bug

[h3]EVERYTHING ELSE (5 features)[/h3]

* Removed two awful name suffixes (credit Leechgirl)
* Added 5 new arena insults
* Added 5 new kingdom names (Hyrkhan, Hyrkania, Losaria, Pridar, Trevara)
* Removed redundant screen in Blackmarket alley
* Added new reworked option for sending a soldier through the alley

[h3]WHAT'S NEXT[/h3]

A lot more to work on after this little bout of celebrating, it was just too good a milestone to pass up! And again, thank you all who contributed to that figure, every single copy in that 30k is a chunk of this dream come true scenario for me so thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Viva Warsim

Hey guys so I wasn't planning on releasing another update yet but a ton of people have been reporting an issue with the Arena and infinite fights against pacifists so I'm releasing this to patch that! (Sorry to anyone who's had the bug!)

[h3]CHAMPION FOR HIRE TOURNAMENT (1 feature)[/h3]

While playing Warsim the idea popped into my head and I had to make it possible, now for 8000 gold and as long as the Arena is big enough to host 16 man tournaments, you can make all of the champions for hire fight, and hire the winner!

* Added the ability to launch a tournament from the champion for hire screen using all the fighters present with the winner becoming your champion

New option


Tournament is live


And the winner is...


The next batch


[h3]BUGFIXES (12 features)[/h3]

A dozen bugfixes including the dreaded infini-pacifist fight...

* Fixed issue with palisade destruction end of turn text breaking
* Fixed issue with super strong pacifists not dying in arena causing infinite fight (credit Starcliff)
* Fixed Blackmarket money collector collecting money even when the Blackmarket is destroyed, the sneaky bugger (credit Defender)
* Fixed new bandit outposts spawning in Blackmarket even when it's ruined (credit Defender)
* Fixed Bandit groups still able to buy bandits even when Blackmarket is destroyed (credit Defender)
* Fixed doomstone fragment death doesn't send you to gameover screen but just closes the game (credit TJ)
* Fixed Arena no entry fee paid event still takes entry fee gold (credit TorbenBeta)
* Fixed Arena half price entry free event still takes full gold (credit TorbenBeta)
* Fixed issue with pacifist event text bug in the Arena
* Fixed double line bug in goblinwood merc post
* Fixed issue with Goblin Berserkers not working in the new combat system
* Fixed text bug with champion event (credit u/demontits)

[h3]EVERYTHING ELSE (1 feature)[/h3]

Just a little improvement

* Added new screen and sfx when rubbing doomstone fragment in your artifact hall

[h3]WHAT'S NEXT[/h3]

I'm still working on the multi attack system and have made some decent progress so I'll be keeping up my work and hopefully finding a good balanced system, I hope everyone had a great halloween!

Cheers

Huw

I posted this on reddit and wanted to share the same thoughts here!

Thank you all for being here. It's honestly so amazing to see so many views and comments everytime I post an announcement here. As of right now Warsim steam announcements have had 1,343,101 unique impressions, which is insane.

Being able to do this fulltime is a dream job and it's only possible because of the support this game has had, but it's also so damn cool to have nearly 30,000 people who have bought the game and I feel like it's my duty to make Warsim as good as I possibly can before I wrap it up and move on to the next great adventure.

Just thought about it earlier and felt it worth sharing, the near permanent constant support I've had for 5+ years has been the sole reason Warsim is still in development. It's been intoxicating and a constant uplift and it's my privilege to reply to every comment and be able to engage with so many people who are enjoying something I've put my soul into.

I love you guys

Huw

Hey guys,

It's Halloween again so here's a little Halloween gift for those enjoying Warsim at the moment or those who are diving back in!

A new halloween mod to play and a small update with 50 new halloween themed items!

I'm still working on the multi attack system (allowing players and enemies to launch more than one attack per year) and it's going well but there's a lot I wish to add and improve so it's going to take a little while longer.

But in the meantime I'm happy to be able to at least put out something for you guys!

To those who have been active in the community at all over the last year or so, thank you all so much. No matter what has happened this year, good or bad, there has always been daily comments across steam, reddit, youtube, twitter, discord, and the forums for Warsim and they are pretty much entirely positive and kind comments that mean so much. Such a lovely connection to the community and those who clearly love the game is so wholesome and is one of the strongest fuels that keeps this passion project in development full time for so many years now!

Beyond that, if anyone here doesn't own Warsim (or does and knows anyone who might enjoy it)

Warsim is on sale at 40% off for Steam Halloween sale so it'll be a lot cheaper to pick up ($4.79)

Anyway, without further ado... The changelogs

[h3]The legend of Spooktaria[/h3]

The game takes place in a save filed called 'Spooktaria' which pits you in the shoes of Ween the Hallowed One, ruler of Spooktaria in a fight against a world of spooky creatures.

* Load the Save 'Spooktaria' to start the game
* Start with 3 custom champions 'Dracula (800 Battlescore), Hoggo the Demonic (666 Battlescore), and Patchwork Monster (450 Battlescore)'
* Start with Decrepit Croll as your diplomat
* Start with 5 custom kingdoms 'Mad Ghosts, Disfigured Hobgoblins, Void Necromancers, Garden Vampires, and Dire Witches



For those who want to make their own custom spooky world don't forget you can start a new game using the Halloween race pack to get randomly generated spooky races!

[h3]Halloween Items Pack (50 features)[/h3]

Alongside the new game I've also added a pack of 50 new spooky halloween themed items that will appear all over the game as random loot.

* Added 'a cursed book bound by skin (worth 5 gold)
* Added 'a solid gold statue of a skull (worth 200 gold)
* Added 'a solid silver statue of a skull (worth 110 gold)
* Added 'a fine stone statue of a skull (worth 20 gold)
* Added 'a crude stone statue of a skull (worth 3 gold)
* Added 'a crudely made wicker skull (worth 2 gold)
* Added 'a finely crafted wicker skull (worth 10 gold)
* Added 'a finely carved wooden skull (worth 15 gold)
* Added 'a finely carved diamond encrused wooden skull (worth 250 gold)
* Added 'a crudely carved wooden skull (worth 2 gold)
* Added 'an obsidian statue of a skull (worth 190 gold)
* Added 'a solid gold statue of a horned skull (worth 210 gold)
* Added 'a solid silver statue of a horned skull (worth 115 gold)
* Added 'a fine stone statue of a horned skull (worth 22 gold)
* Added 'a crude stone statue of a horned skull (worth 4 gold)
* Added 'a crudely made wicker horned skull (worth 3 gold)
* Added 'a finely crafter wicker horned skull (worth 11 gold)
* Added 'a finely carved wooden horned skull (worth 16 gold)
* Added 'a finely carved diamond encrused wooden horned skull (worth 260 gold)
* Added 'a crudely carved wooden horned skull (worth 3 gold)
* Added 'an obsidian statue of a horned skull (worth 200 gold)
* Added 'a dragon tooth with a carving of a great battle on it (worth 450 gold)
* Added 'an obsidian dragon tooth (worth 250 gold)
* Added 'a fossilized dragon tooth (worth 550 gold)
* Added 'a rusty cauldron (worth 1 gold)
* Added 'a blood stained cauldron (worth 1 gold)
* Added 'an iron shield with a cobweb painted on it (worth 15 gold)
* Added 'a solid gold shield with a cobweb painted on it (worth 260 gold)
* Added 'a carved pumpkin (worth 1 gold)
* Added 'a solid gold pumpkin (worth 210 gold)
* Added 'a finely crafted cauldron (worth 15 gold)
* Added 'a cursed broom (worth 1 gold)
* Added 'a poison coated cauldron (worth 3 gold)
* Added 'a cauldron carved out of bones (worth 25 gold)
* Added 'a fork made of bone (worth 5 gold)
* Added 'a knife made of bone (worth 5 gold)
* Added 'a bowl made of bone (worth 4 gold)
* Added 'a dagger made of bone (worth 20 gold)
* Added 'a dragon bone spear (worth 670 gold)
* Added 'a carved dragon egg (worth 940 gold)
* Added 'a severed hand (worth 1 gold)
* Added 'a jar with a single eyeball in it (worth 3 gold)
* Added 'a tri pointed pitchfork (worth 66 gold)
* Added 'a painting of a haunted house (worth 44 gold)
* Added 'a painting of a horrifying scene (worth 50 gold)
* Added 'a painting of a burning pumpkin (worth 62 gold)
* Added 'a painting of a hulking vampire (worth 90 gold)

Thank you and I hope you guys enjoy

Huw