How To Play


Mouse Or Arrow KeysMove Pointer
Left Mouse Button or XChoose Units
Right Mouse Button Or CSend Units
ESDF or move mouse to screen edgesMove Camera

Click units or buildings to view their stats and actions. Keep an eye on your resources, which are wood, food, stone, gold and housing. Make sure to build enough houses and send your workers to work! Once you've given them a task they will try to keep doing it until there is nothing in their vicinity left to interact with. 

Whenever the game spots a "lazy" worker it will offer you to select that worker with a button next to your minimap.

Although the game does support controllers it is best played with the mouse.

How to beat

Make sure to get rid of all the enemies units on the map. Once you've done that you've beaten that scenario and can advance to the next one. 

More about the game

This is a small bite-sized Age Of Empires demake with 5 scenarios to beat. 

The idea came from this post on the PICO-8 forum, and I'm happy that oNek agreed to collaborate on this game.


UPDATES:

7.4.25 

  • added in-game instructions

8.4.25

  • added camera movement with the player 2 movement controls
  • added controller padding to the camera movement(the camera now only gets moved when you are at the edge and trying to go over it, no more scrolling zones when using the controller
  • made the units finally respect their movement speed
  • gave the juggernaut a new set of armor
  • fixed the blinking "lazy unit" icon
  • fixed UI deselection bug


Updated 10 days ago
Published 13 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Authortaxicomics
GenreStrategy
Made withPICO-8
TagsDemake, Isometric, PICO-8, Pixel Art, Retro
Average sessionA few seconds

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Comments

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This is so cool! Could you provide a .p8.png or .p8 file so I can save it to my machine?

Hi! I'm happy you're enjoying it, I just added the cartridge to the downloads.

Thank you!!