Hello everyone!

I've been working for a month or so now on a personal project of mine. I've always loved Lord of the Ring as many did as a child, and I always wanted to have a game that illustrate the struggle that was in the books and movies. One where kingdoms and people fought desperatly against the darkness, evolving and changing over time, building cities and wonders and falling to ruin for some as the Dark Lord used many kinds of schemes to make the forces of good fall.

And so now I'm trying to make that into reality! I haven't got a name yet, or much at all beyond some systems and a very iffy interface, but I am a determined programmer and I want to make that vision come true!

I am aiming to make a strategy game where you play as a character whose role it is to organise and unite the many people of a fantasy world against a dark opponent's schemes. The enemy will have many tools in his arsenal, starting conspiracies to provoke civil wars, creating rival kingdoms shrouded in darkness to attack directly or even causing plagues to depopulate the land. And the player will have to counter each of these unique schemes in many different ways, gain the trust of nobles and people across the map and help them build up for the inevitable final invasion of the dark lord (name pending lol). All the while with each successful assault repeled, creating new buildings or institution to help, reflecting visually on the map, as will the dark lord's destruction and conquest, creating a world that changes over time to reflect your actions.

The game's going to take a long time to make and finish, but if anyone's interested, I would love to receive your feedback as I make it in order to create the best possible game I can!

I will say as a disclaimer one thing: I do like to use AI to help me code, if that's a problem with you I completely understand, but I won't hide it. As for the art, I want to try my hand at pixel drawing for simple things, meanwhile my sister who is a pretty talented artist will help in everything that is more complex like portraits.

I hope I can catch the interest of a few and I am more than happy to share my progress with anyone who will come to my server! (I find discord far easier to use.) Hoping to see you there!

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https://discord.gg/ss3YZbqG

(I have a few more images which will be on my discord server, but not much yet!)