Tales of Irim

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Overview

Tales of Irim is a turn based gunpowder-fantasy colony management game inspired by games like King of Dragon Pass and Six Ages.  Beyond your typical management functionality like resource management, worker allocation and building construction, the core of the game is an event system giving players a large number of custom written events set in the world of Irim with different options, outcomes, with many branching stories and interesting encounters - your choices have consequences.

Turn Based Colony Management

• Buildings that can be constructed with different effects
• Resource management
• Worker allocations - manage your resources each turn carefully
• Dynamic "Overview" text acting as an advisor to the player. Are you at risk of attack? Pay attention for clues as to what's happening

Central Story & Supporting Narrative

• Dozens of custom events supplemented by artwork
• Multiple branching sub stories - your choice in one event has repercussions in any one playthrough
• Built around a trigger and effects system, the state of your colony heavily influences what events you get
• Custom lore about the fictional world of Irim

Battle System

• Whether by chance or through events your colony must be prepared to defend itself against all manner of threats
• Recruit soldiers and improve their abilities through the buildings system

Histories

• All events in your colony, from battles to events and your choices in them are recorded in the history of the colony you can see at anytime

We had more ideas and we hope you can see how a game like this can be expanded. But we wanted to spend a few days polishing and balancing our game before the end of the jam as games like this can be very hard to balance.

About the Developers

We are a two person team and Tales of  Irim represents our first successful GameJam submission after trying a couple in the past. To help us achieve this we decided to simplify the game down to a user interface driven strategy game heavily inspired by games like King of Dragon Pass and Six Ages and other similar story driven management games. We started development in mid November.

We hope you enjoy what we've put together as it was fun for us to finally  complete a GameJam submission.