Warsim: The Realm of Aslona

hi.

the latest update here is march 9th, but on steam its on aug 20th?

Have had trouble with a couple of bugs. I'll attack adventurer groups, it'll tell me they're no more, but they'll continue to exist anyway. I've also had the game freeze when searching for new lands to conquer, this being the second time in my current playthrough that I've done this.

I'm playing on a debug difficulty (69) and have used 777 multiple times, so I'm not sure if that would have anything to do with it.

The same with the rebels, they seized my land, but they still had 9 lands and left 9, I write this to my previous posts about the limit of 25 lands for bandits, 6 lands for Krut, and 8 lands for Erak, more lands they cannot capture, if these factions have less land, then the invasion proceeds normally.

I found another bug when I captured all the rebel lands on the diplomacy screen like this.

The Rebels were destroyed by Bandits in the year of 60.

They have been dead for 1 years.

I also encountered this error in older versions of the game, I thought that it had already been fixed.

the same with goblin kingdoms, they seize land from another faction, but Krut, as it was 6 land, still has 6.

found a bug, when a bandit horde seizes land from goblins, then goblins lose land, but the bandit horde, as it was 25 land, still has 25 land, I don’t know it will have the same effect when a bandit horde captures land from some other faction.

when the bandits have less than 25 lands, everything is fine.

I have said this before, but ill say it again. Thank you for updating this game as much as you do.

Love the game! Thanks for all your hard work.

Found a couple of typos. Apologies, I can't remember exactly where but maybe you can run a search for them?

• indisutries
• overwealm
• javellin
• pendent

This is a wonderful game, with interesting random development.

Each new launch brings new events and random adventures!

The game is actively developing, and gets new interesting opportunities for managing the kingdom!

It is up to you to decide who you will be, a just ruler, or a malicious tyrant.

The game is also beautiful because at the start you can customize the world almost to the smallest detail!

And with recent updates, you can launch the game without settings and just play.

It would probably be great if there were new features at least after getting an achievement, or vassalizing kingdoms. New features such as:

The emergence of new kingdoms, without the destruction of old ones, the management of villages and cities encountered in the study of zimel, only under the condition of high social influence.

Control a rogue horde, and armies of demons with a void army.

With low influence.

Opportunities to create cities, settlements on the ruins of existing villages and fortresses from scratch.

Creation of an alliance of kingdoms, where you will be the main ruler, and after a certain time you will be able to influence some world processes that you could not do before.

For example, training residents from the wild lands, the goblin kingdoms, to improve them.

For example, after such actions, you will be able to maintain contact with those who were sinful and were stupid.

It is also possible to create independent villages, they will live and develop themselves, you will only help them. villages will bring glory to the king, fight, unite, and who knows, maybe one day a new kingdom will appear, which will also obey you!

But maybe the village will forget your merits and want to attack you?

There can be a great many possible ideas for the game, this is just the first thing that comes to mind!

If you liked something, I will be glad if something similar appears sometime.

Good luck in development, and may everyone enjoy this wonderful game as much as I do!

with great respect to you, and to your titanic work on this game that has given and continues to give me many hours of fun and pleasure.

I noticed another bug in the game, when a miner from Monfort Mine comes to the throne room with the news that 3 miners died, then the number of miners in Monfort Mine remains the same 500, but in Shallowrock Mine if you have 600 miners, then it really remains 597, that is, the miners die in Shallowrock Mine and not in Monfort Mine.

this bug was in earlier versions of the game.

When transferring all factions to the new combat system after capturing the last land, the rebels and Goblin kingdoms do not storm the capital, for example, Erak the Cave Troll (Only in the Capital)

(300 battle points)

Aerak Ogre (capital only)

(350 combat points), elite rebel guard (capital only)

(175 Battle Points)

Rebel Lord (Capital only)

(225 battle points).

No fights for the capital and no fights with these units

and over time, the champion of The Brawlers Pit begins to kill his rivals with one blow, this was also in previous versions of the game.

I have the latest version of the game 1.4

here is a link to my save file.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zloYgcdBfl2xSoZoODxe_paQvnxET3pe/view?usp=shari...

Hi, does the itch purchase include a Steam key too?

When you transferred all the fractions to the new combat system after the seizure of the last land from the rebels and the Goben kingdoms there are no assaults of the capital, for example Erak Cave Troll (Only in Capital)

(300 Battlescore)

Erak Ogre (Only in Capital)

(350 Battlescore), Elite Rebel Guard (Only in Capital)

(175 Battlescore)

Rebel Lord (Only in Capital)

(225 Battlescore).

There are no battles to seize the capital and no battles with these units

Hi! I don't have a reddit account so I'll report 2 bugs here. I hope they are reproducable but they should be, don't seem too random. Wish I had the time to recreate them but I didn't sleep a whole night because of playing this and have to catch up work and sleep so I'll  just explain how I ran into them. Playing the newest version 0852

1. When I recruited a fifth champion the message was along the lines of "you recruit Xyz Of Whatever as your first champion". Pretty sure it happened consistently.

2. I defeated a faction, and at capturing their last land was asked about their monarch's fate. I had him join me as a champion. Then I visited their refugee camp and recruited the same monarch as another champion so I had two of a kind (or even... two of a king)

That said the game is great fun. I was about to wait for a gog release but couldn't resist after playing the demo for 2 days... when I thought that You supposedly earn more at itch.io it was enough a reason (and I'll buy or gift the gog version anyway to drive sales). I always wanted to make a game a bit like this and am envious and inspired. Keep up the good work.

I started playing video games around 1980 as a kid. My first game was Zork. Of course, Warsim is light years ahead of Zork as it has tons more depth but I am so glad there are those that still appreciate this style of game. Great graphics are just fine, but in the end, it's the GAMEPLAY that matters! I am a GOG user and happened to see that this game will be there soon...BUT...I just could not wait to play it so I got it here and would be happy to support it on GOG as well!  It's great to see that this game is still being improved...would love to see where it can still go!

P.S. I carry this game on a thumb drive so I can play anywhere/anytime!

there is a bug in the game that is pretty consistent. I go to fight the demon lord and I win. After that, a command error message pops up along with some recorded dialogue. No matter what I push, the error never stops coming and the message never stops playing, so I believe the two are connected.

Really awesome ASCII game. I played now for a few hours and had a blast. Now there is the little issue in my run.

When i started the game, i turned the demon horde on and i think they are a nice idea and execution for the game itself (They are meant to be a threat and the game also shows). Though i played a bit against them and since it was my first playthrough, i didn't played 'optimally', meaning the demon horde overruns my Kingdom over time. Is there a way to turn off the demon horde during an active game?

If not, it is also not a problem. I expected to fail with that Kingdom anyway and got way further then i thought i would get ;)

About the rest of the game, as i said earlier, i really enjoy it. The humour is neat and the decisions you have also feel like they have influence shaping your Kingdom or relations with foreign factions. The randomness of the game also adds to that.

A really nice game for Goblin friends... or foes.

I downloaded the demo and played it on easy until the unstoppable demon hordes showed up.

It was a very enjoyable experience which brought to mind the good old days of BBS door games.

I have a few suggestions. First, it was unfortunate that there was no default for the Enter key, so I always had to type in a number, usually '0', which added a lot of unnecessary key strokes to my experience. This also caused army battles to be overly complicated. Battle would be streamlined if it were possible to default-none or default-yes the Enter key for various army types. It is also not possible to fire or sell the unique soldier types you can hire from Independent nations, which made my battles unnecessarily complex until the demons killed them all.

I also suggest the demo end in some way when nothing is left but the Demon hordes. The post-demon horde game is kind of empty, so the dev might as well just end it purposefully. Give information about why we should buy the complete game. It was not obvious to me what was missing, though there were some parts of the explorer pages that were marked "???" and others "not coded yet". Are these included in the final version?

Congratulations on your project.

i have question. on my pc when i try to open the game, i get something that says windows dialog but the game never opens.  i must say though i am using a screen reader, that i feel this means nothing.  don't know whats blocking this from opening but windows defender, the program that likes to remove stuff is turned off etc.  if someone can help some how i will be grateful thanks.

This game is absolutely amazing in concept and everything! Too bad I can't buy it right now because I don't have a PC/ I am broke :P . It's a wonder this isn't more well known! Maybe get gamasutra or rock paper shotgun or something to write about it, or make a gamasutra account and write about it instead of on medium :P .

Wow, I was planning a kingdom roguelike that has to do with pesonalities and would like to hear your insights on different personalities/character traits in your game. Also for it to be ~210mb for ASCII!! Just how much content is there or do sounds take up most of the space?

This doesn't do anything for publicity but I wrote about your game here.

I bought this on Steam the other day, and I came here to say that this is an absolute amazing game!

I love the simplicity yet complexity of it, with so much to do, and it is so well executed.

You've even inspired me to make my own text-based console games with C++!

Thank you so much for all the amazing work you do on the game

Hey, just have to say I checked this out a while back when it was free and kind of forgot about it, until someone mentioned it again. Bought it on Steam and love it. I love the ability to turn off ASCII as a screen reader user. This game is super accessible being played in what is basically a command prompt window. It is hard to find fun, engaging games that are fully accessible without some kind of huge long mod process, so thank you from myself and several other blind and VI folks I know that play this.

Man, this is some amazing work mate!
Incredibly done!
I have no complaints or issues with it, so far it has run fantastic. So much thought and creativity was put into it, and my jaw legit dropped just playing through some of this. So much depth, yet so accessible!

Would be nice to be able to select dominant gender of a realm.  For example, the top screen lists soldiers as Men, what if I want to play as Drow where the presumed council would be female and the soldiers too would be female with males turning up less frequently?  Could be cool.

Really looking forward to playing this, ever since watching it on a YT video. I purchased it but when I try to launch it from the itch desktop app, it opens a cmd window (on Windows 10) and then ... nothing. Anyone have this issue, or any suggestions?

Your game looks fantastic, I sent you extra $10:) Can you tell me more, about your game development process? Which programing language are you using, how you prepare plan (new stuff) etc. I want to develop game(s) also, but I always give up in some stage:( do you have some advices for me?:)

Hello, just purchased this game from your website. I just saw that this is also available on STEAM in early access. As you make updates to the game, how do I update my downloaded version? I hope this question makes sense. Thank you. 

I've had a lot of fun with this game, I highly recommend it!

I bought this game, and even threw in an extra $5. However... upon purchasing and downloading it, I found that I cannot play it. I'm running Windows 8.1, and when I click the launch button on Itch, the game will start, but its window doesn't play. I hear what I presume is the main menu SFX, but Warsim doesn't appear on any of my three monitors, nor does it appear when I alt-tab through my available windows.

I've tried restarting my pc and relaunching the game, but nothing happens. Any thoughts on how I can fix this problem?

Edit: I can launch the game through its install folder and it works properly, but not through itch. I don't know what could cause this issue, but at least I can play the game now.

this is one of the most underrated indie games i ever seen, the potential is huge. even as it is its a great game and worth a buy.
but the marketing and pricing is terribly done, its worth 5$ not 3$ its disrespectful to pay any less then 5$ for this game. you can burn a lot of hours of fun with it. and there isnt alot of text based games like it, not that polished.

if i was this game owner/creator, i would upload a video about it every day, knock on every door, post anywhere they let me post. and even have a marketing budget targeted at indie game fans (rouglike/crusader kings/ casual game fans etc) you need a real targeted market research and good copywriting somthing that will talk directly to your target (your game description is OK). maybe use influencers, like that crazy sseth he did ascii based game reviews (maybe find a smaller youtuber influencer).

 and a better way to monetize this, at this rate it wont fly, and this thing can. maybe a patreon. its so good i personally will throw more dollas at this just to get more content.

you made it in the product creation phase which is a great feat alone. but you need marketing/ copywriting too. learn those stuff, read gary halbert (his stuff is free  gold). psychology of buying (why people buy). search on google anything you can find on internet marketing (and game advertising) free and paid seo etc (you can dominate some of your games keywords=free trafic in the long term).

in any case good luck.

Hi! I just purchased your game here again (I already own it on Steam for some years now) to support your incredibly ambitious project and your dedication to continuously improve it. And indeed it gets better and better with every update and has become one of my favourites. I look forward to every new version. I wish you all the best with Warsim, I really hope it gets the attention it deserves.

Is a macOS version still in the roadmap?