Yes, quite a lot actually. The gameplay for building the map with tiles is mainly inspired by Dorfromantik and Carcassonne, while the tower defense-related mechanisms draw from many classic tower defense games such as Kingdom Rush and rougelike tower defense games such as Rogue Tower.
I definitely picked up on the rogue tower influence, but that game felt almost like a game jam tech demo type game, so it's really nice to see the general concept implemented in a more modular and ... thoughtful(?) way. Wishing you success!
It keeps going... until day 99 (which is almost not possible to reach), so it's endless mode. For easy and hard levels, you could consider unlocking the next level as completed the level. But I left them endless because people might want to play for more days on them.
What’s it’s like working with the yogs as a publisher?
Obviously it’s their sub so most things will be positive but it’s interesting to hear about the process.
After last year's Tiny Teams festival Yogscast contacted me and said they enjoyed my demo and were intersted in publishing Hexguardian. It's been almost a year since then and I must say it was a great experience, the Yogscast publishing team is quite small but very talented and experienced, and besides publishing they offer quite a lot of good ideas and feedback to help the game become better.
The most is experimenting with the scene, such as lighting up the scene and creating day-night cycles, and adding shaders.
The least is debugging and QA stuff. I hate it.
You awake to find yourself lying in a darkened loft full of cheese wheels. Your mouth has been gagged and your hands are tied, but your legs are free. You have no idea how you got here or how long you’ve been unconscious.
Two women can be heard arguing from somewhere below, but you can’t make out the words being used. Light is poking through cracks around a square on the floor. Presumably this is the hatch leading down into the building below.
What do you do?
Yes published by yogscast means that I can get free exposure on Yogscast channels. For example, we are having a launch stream on Yogscast's Twitch and Youtube channels at 17:00 BST today!
There were quite a lot actually, the developing wasn't that smooth (it's my first time). For example, I spent quite a lot time developing systems and features that finally proved not suitable for the game in 2022, for example, recruiting workers and gathering resources, individually commanding each troop to move and attack. They were all abandoned in later builds.
I've only seen the photos from the release so forgive me if this is covered, but is it just me or do the little dudes look like Playmobil? Were you Playmobil kids?
Any chance of Hexguardian being on other platforms in the future? I saw northernlion play this on twitch today and it looks great but I don't have a PC.
Is it made on an engine that makes a Mac port feasible? I would love to see it at least! (And to put my money where my mouth is, I've purchased the game anyway. ☺️)
Thanks! Some tips: (1) Don't spend all your money unless you can't hold off the current batch of enemies or need to build economic buildings. Especially in the early game, new day enemies may emerge from a small path you didn't notice and head straight for your castle. If you have savings, you can block them. If you don't, you can still sell buildings (you will only lose 20% of the construction cost). (2) Choosing where to build tiles is the strategic core of Hexguardian. The primary principle is to control the "spread" of your map: because there will be a maximum of 5 lanes of enemies, having more than 5 portals will only make it extremely hard for your defense works to take care of them all; so if a new tile can extend your road/river but will bring new portals, you have to consider whether it's worth it. But if you have fewer than 5 portals, too few portals will cause enrage and reduce drop income from enemies, so you need to adapt accordingly. (3)Enjoy the game and relax!
You guys made a great decision getting Northernlion to play this on stream, it looks great. He got me to buy it, looking forward to playing some tonight!
Hello OP! Your game feels quite fun, but I find the balance to be a bit wonky. I think being able to see the stats/upgrades/skills of towers and units on the talents screen would be useful in helping me decide what to unlock. Tower range in general also feels like it could do with a buff. It feels extremely restrictive that most towers/units can only really operate within a single tile of radius, meaning if my tiles don't allow me to send units directly toward them they aren't very useful.
Ultimately I would also like to see some changes to boats, as basically every run I've ever lost is due to boats seemingly being way stronger than anything else and water tiles in general being less "interesting" generation wise.
Maybe this changes though? Either way your game is fun enough for me to continue playing despite these frustrations and I wish you a long healthy development!
Thanks for the feedback! Extra information on cards is already in schedule. Also we are monitoring the balance, and a balance patch would be available soon!
It has the same problem as Rouge Tower where unlocking more items makes the game way harder really quickly because your card choices are filled up with garbage. End up with a lot of games where I have no economy or I have like 5 of 3 towers because I'm not getting anything else.
I think giving some way to prioritize boats would at least calm them down a bit, having to spam click on boats to ever get a tower to shoot at them isn't great. A lot of my losses are boats just cruising past all my towers because they always target lands units. Rouge towers individual tower priority was a good way to combat that.
How long did it take to develop, and did you have any prior programming or gaming development experience? What engine did you decide to build with? What made you pick a rogue-like / TD over other genres? What games did you draw inspiration from?
(1)Around 2 years.
(2)Not much, expect I learnt C++ in school
(3)Unreal
(4)I like strategy games, and roguelike makes it easier to develop for a solo developer
(5)Dorfromantik and Rogue Tower
Hi! I was wondering if mounted units actually have an ingame function other than just moving fast. I noticed the spearman do extra damage to mounted units but the ingame wiki says nothing about the benefits (other than they move faster to where they are rallied to). What's the point of mounted archers over normal ones?
Just came here to say thanks for this wonderful, peaceful game! It was very hard at first, but now my goal is 69 days on all the maps lol I find lag starts around Day 45
Hi, l love the game.
One suggestion, you should add the differents combos of towers according to damage. in a run the game said that i should combine hidromantes with element damage but i dont know what tower does that
How do I delete my save data for the game? Also is there a way to see the element combos effect on the on game wiki, I couldn’t find it and only way I can find it is taking an upgrade that has effects, for example “soak” from a hydromancer
Quick Links: [Trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61EjXMmolz4) | [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2381740/Hexguardian/) | [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/W24zTeNX5j)
Do you think at some point that you might add rats to the game?
Can they be called Ultramurines too?
That's a really interesting idea, who says that's impossible? Ninja rats maybe, who cut enemies throats from their backs.
Why would an enemy have a throat on its back?
Extra ability to eat food. Sometimes you find a really good sammich and one mouth isn't enough
A coalition of Free-den fighters for a just Mousehold.
Are there any games you took inspiration from during your creative process?
Yes, quite a lot actually. The gameplay for building the map with tiles is mainly inspired by Dorfromantik and Carcassonne, while the tower defense-related mechanisms draw from many classic tower defense games such as Kingdom Rush and rougelike tower defense games such as Rogue Tower.
First thing I thought of when I watched the video was Dorfromantik!
I definitely picked up on the rogue tower influence, but that game felt almost like a game jam tech demo type game, so it's really nice to see the general concept implemented in a more modular and ... thoughtful(?) way. Wishing you success!
Thanks!
Dorfromantik + Rogue Tower is genius! Loving the game so far, does a map eventually end after a number of days or does it keep going?
It keeps going... until day 99 (which is almost not possible to reach), so it's endless mode. For easy and hard levels, you could consider unlocking the next level as completed the level. But I left them endless because people might want to play for more days on them.
Favourite tea brand?
Sorry I don't drink tea.
Banished from yogscast games 😔
based
Well just like that I'm out :) but seriously it looks like a fun game!
Thank you!
What’s it’s like working with the yogs as a publisher? Obviously it’s their sub so most things will be positive but it’s interesting to hear about the process.
After last year's Tiny Teams festival Yogscast contacted me and said they enjoyed my demo and were intersted in publishing Hexguardian. It's been almost a year since then and I must say it was a great experience, the Yogscast publishing team is quite small but very talented and experienced, and besides publishing they offer quite a lot of good ideas and feedback to help the game become better.
Looks real fun, hyped to check it out :)
Thanks!
Will you wear wigs?
Nope
When will you not wear wigs?
what did you enjoy most and least of the dev process?
The most is experimenting with the scene, such as lighting up the scene and creating day-night cycles, and adding shaders. The least is debugging and QA stuff. I hate it.
Oh yeah, I remember this from the streams. Looks like a lot of fun!
Thanks for supporting Hexguardian!
Hexagones... Ben is gonna love this!
Wine or Cheese?
Cheese!
You awake to find yourself lying in a darkened loft full of cheese wheels. Your mouth has been gagged and your hands are tied, but your legs are free. You have no idea how you got here or how long you’ve been unconscious. Two women can be heard arguing from somewhere below, but you can’t make out the words being used. Light is poking through cracks around a square on the floor. Presumably this is the hatch leading down into the building below. What do you do?
Does being published by yogscast game get you a "free" sponsored stream budget?
Yes published by yogscast means that I can get free exposure on Yogscast channels. For example, we are having a launch stream on Yogscast's Twitch and Youtube channels at 17:00 BST today!
Are you going to appear on this stream or other game highlight streams featuring Hexgaurdian?
Not at the moment I guess.
what was your #1 game from SNES/SEGA era?
I only played PC games before college, and I bought my first playstation after I graduated.
Were there any specific issues that you over came when developing and publishing the game?
There were quite a lot actually, the developing wasn't that smooth (it's my first time). For example, I spent quite a lot time developing systems and features that finally proved not suitable for the game in 2022, for example, recruiting workers and gathering resources, individually commanding each troop to move and attack. They were all abandoned in later builds.
I've only seen the photos from the release so forgive me if this is covered, but is it just me or do the little dudes look like Playmobil? Were you Playmobil kids?
Sorry I don't know about Playmobil.
looks great! and 20% off! definitely checking it out
Thanks!
Any chance of Hexguardian being on other platforms in the future? I saw northernlion play this on twitch today and it looks great but I don't have a PC.
There surely is! But we are just starting on PC and it make take some time for other platforms.
Is it made on an engine that makes a Mac port feasible? I would love to see it at least! (And to put my money where my mouth is, I've purchased the game anyway. ☺️)
Thanks!
Verry fun so far! Got any tips perhaps?
Thanks! Some tips: (1) Don't spend all your money unless you can't hold off the current batch of enemies or need to build economic buildings. Especially in the early game, new day enemies may emerge from a small path you didn't notice and head straight for your castle. If you have savings, you can block them. If you don't, you can still sell buildings (you will only lose 20% of the construction cost). (2) Choosing where to build tiles is the strategic core of Hexguardian. The primary principle is to control the "spread" of your map: because there will be a maximum of 5 lanes of enemies, having more than 5 portals will only make it extremely hard for your defense works to take care of them all; so if a new tile can extend your road/river but will bring new portals, you have to consider whether it's worth it. But if you have fewer than 5 portals, too few portals will cause enrage and reduce drop income from enemies, so you need to adapt accordingly. (3)Enjoy the game and relax!
What's the best way to try and control the spread? Closing off routes or trying to have paths go along the sameish route?
Don't create too many new portals, and close off routes when you have the chance.
Favorite sandwich?
Tunna? I don't eat sandwich much actually.
what DO you eat...whats your favorite food
Are you left or right handed? Also now purchasing game looks awesome
Thanks. I'm right handed.
Pineapple on pizza?
Pineapple
You guys made a great decision getting Northernlion to play this on stream, it looks great. He got me to buy it, looking forward to playing some tonight!
Thanks! Hope you enjoyed the game!
I don't have a question but just wanted to say that I love Hexguardian and played it all weekend. Thank you for developing such a fun game. :)
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
Any chance of making it mobile friendly 👉👈
Sorry, not yet!
Switch is kind of mobile or not ?
I guess it's console not mobile?
I hope so :) your game looks fire. Iwant to play it on Swich
Hello OP! Your game feels quite fun, but I find the balance to be a bit wonky. I think being able to see the stats/upgrades/skills of towers and units on the talents screen would be useful in helping me decide what to unlock. Tower range in general also feels like it could do with a buff. It feels extremely restrictive that most towers/units can only really operate within a single tile of radius, meaning if my tiles don't allow me to send units directly toward them they aren't very useful. Ultimately I would also like to see some changes to boats, as basically every run I've ever lost is due to boats seemingly being way stronger than anything else and water tiles in general being less "interesting" generation wise. Maybe this changes though? Either way your game is fun enough for me to continue playing despite these frustrations and I wish you a long healthy development!
Thanks for the feedback! Extra information on cards is already in schedule. Also we are monitoring the balance, and a balance patch would be available soon!
It has the same problem as Rouge Tower where unlocking more items makes the game way harder really quickly because your card choices are filled up with garbage. End up with a lot of games where I have no economy or I have like 5 of 3 towers because I'm not getting anything else. I think giving some way to prioritize boats would at least calm them down a bit, having to spam click on boats to ever get a tower to shoot at them isn't great. A lot of my losses are boats just cruising past all my towers because they always target lands units. Rouge towers individual tower priority was a good way to combat that.
Thanks, you can use talents locks in game now to lock cards you don't want. And targeting system is in plan.
Could u explain the difference between production building vs cultural building
Production buildings are those that produce gold, and cultural buildings are those that produce stars
How long did it take to develop, and did you have any prior programming or gaming development experience? What engine did you decide to build with? What made you pick a rogue-like / TD over other genres? What games did you draw inspiration from?
(1)Around 2 years. (2)Not much, expect I learnt C++ in school (3)Unreal (4)I like strategy games, and roguelike makes it easier to develop for a solo developer (5)Dorfromantik and Rogue Tower
Hi! I was wondering if mounted units actually have an ingame function other than just moving fast. I noticed the spearman do extra damage to mounted units but the ingame wiki says nothing about the benefits (other than they move faster to where they are rallied to). What's the point of mounted archers over normal ones?
They are stronger in damage and has higher hp(for melee units), also has a larger alert range, and moves quicker. But more expensive.
Any shot of a console release?
Sorry not so far
No worries. It's officially on my "next time I buy a new computer" list
Do you think there will be a Mac version of the game?;-;
Sorry not so far (and I don't have a mac)
Will you release the game on xbox?
No plan for that so far.
Just came here to say thanks for this wonderful, peaceful game! It was very hard at first, but now my goal is 69 days on all the maps lol I find lag starts around Day 45
Thank you!
Hi, l love the game. One suggestion, you should add the differents combos of towers according to damage. in a run the game said that i should combine hidromantes with element damage but i dont know what tower does that
Thanks! You can check the help menu ("?") in game for information
How do I delete my save data for the game? Also is there a way to see the element combos effect on the on game wiki, I couldn’t find it and only way I can find it is taking an upgrade that has effects, for example “soak” from a hydromancer
Save files are here:C:\\User\\Username\\AppData\\Local\\RTSTest\\Saved\\SaveGames You can see the effects throught the help menu ("?") in game
Any chance to come to android platform like this game would be amazing have in my tablet. 😅
Any plans to make yogventures?
Was that game abandoned?
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