Hello there!

[maciek]

Hi all,

I have been recently introduced to this community at Mastodon. I am a hobbyist game dev trying to build small and simple games at my free time. I've recently created a short roguelike game (that's how I learned about the forums - which I will probably introduce in a game dev section here soon :]

I am very pleased to see that the community also cares about history as I am bit geeky about ancient and medieval architecture. (One of my goals is to release one day a game based on that, but cannot find an interesting mechanics so far

Thanks for the invite!

[Glaurung]

Hi there! Welcome to Exilian - please do look around the forums, and feel free to comment on anything you find interesting.

I had an idea for a possible architecture game, but I've no idea how practical or interesting it might be. It's a single player game: the player is a Master Mason (in modern terms, the architect or engineer) building a medieval cathedral. They have to manage the various supplies - stone, wood, etc. - to build the different parts of the cathedral, along with the workforce doing the construction. All this takes money, of course, and they need to keep sweet-talking the church authorities and wealthy citizens to pay for the work. If the funds run too low, work stops, and all the workers leave - then when more donations come in, it costs more to hire a new bunch of workers. Also, you can have random disruptions: part of the building collapses, or there's a famine or plague affecting the city. How does that sound?

[Jubal]

Welcome welcome! As Glaurung saids, make yourself at home, feel free to ask any questions, etc

On the masonry point, Tony Masinton is the name that springs to mind on that area, he's done a lot of building-block work on reconstructions of church architecture and he gave a talk at a workshop I/we ran a few years back. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XeU4fKk9KI) Also if in general you'd like to nose into more medievalisms/game dev stuff, applications are still open for joining the next workshop in that series, details for that are all here. I'm a medieval historian by profession myself and a hobbyist game developer so it's a combination I probably think about more than is wholly normal.

[maciek]

Hi,

@Glaurung
cathedral construction management seems indeed super-interesting. Probably in a full scope might be a game too big for solo development, but surely it can be distilled into simpler ruleset. (I often try to do games that almost could be board games as well So thanks for this idea, it made me thinking
I actually once started a masonry game prototype, but it was more about load-bearing problems - so something completely different. (sorry for the Twitter links but I think those gifs exist only there nowadays, and downloading is blocked):
https://twitter.com/maciek_glowka/status/1311424289229475841
https://twitter.com/maciek_glowka/status/1309973538254839809
I used to be an architect - hence this kind of structural approach

@Jubal
Thanks, the event looks up my alley I will take a look at the details later!

[Spritelady]

Welcome to the forum! Always nice to have a new member get involved in our geekery!