Pick A Tile

Devlog

• QOL: Quick-move
  July 03, 2024 by BenL

  Just a small update today to allow for quick-movement of a unit. Simply select the tile with your unit, then select it once again to automatically begin toe movement phase - a small change but it make... Continue reading
• Quick-action menu improvements
  May 17, 2024 by BenL

  Added some birds that will scatter when chopping down trees Improved logic around camera movement to better handle zooming in and out Quick-action menu now includes a label to indicate what icon you'r... Continue reading
• Quick menu and action queueing improvements
  April 12, 2024 by BenL

  Fairly small set of updates they're still steps in the right direction. Made the little fishies spin around so they're a little more obvious Resolved a bug that would cause an AI to perform every move... Continue reading
• Small corrections and tweaks
  March 21, 2024 by BenL

  Reduced the movement range of most units to give the game more time to play out. Resolved a bug that meant the Expansion action could never be performed. Updated the vertical alignment of the cannon a... Continue reading
• Audio!
  March 05, 2024 by BenL

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  This release brings in the first wave of audio into the game I'm not 100% happy with some of the clips so I will be replacing them, but I'm leaving them in as a placeholder for now. Added a button cli... Continue reading
• New Tribe - Goblins!
  March 04, 2024 by BenL

  This release brings the first new tribe, the Goblins. The goblins currently use the same technology tree as the Wanderers but their units have slightly modified stats Huge backend changes to support d... Continue reading

  
• Attack diversity
  March 01, 2024 by BenL

  Added number to wheat tiles to indicate the 'growth stage', and a particle effect each time a tile goes through a growth stage. Corrected a bug that caused the current game turn to display incorrectly... Continue reading
• New research - Farming
  February 28, 2024 by BenL

  This release comes with the 18th technology - Farming Unlocking farming will allow you to create a farm on any grass tile with no modifiers/decorators Every 5 turns the farm will finish growing a sour... Continue reading
• Improved map generation
  February 24, 2024 by BenL

  You can now select a 'Map Type' in single player. Added 'Hollow' map type. Added 'Continents' map type. Added 'Islands' map type. You can now toggle the ability to see all possible context actions or... Continue reading
• Introducing a new unit - the Witch!
  February 18, 2024 by BenL

  Slightly reduced the number of "Ruins" (chests) that spawn on a generated map Added a new research item - Witchcraft, this unlocks the new unit - the Witch. This unit explodes on death dealing damage... Continue reading
• Smoothing out a couple of issues
  February 16, 2024 by BenL

  Resolved an issue that stopped particles rendering in single player games Clicking a player indicator in-game will now pan to that players' capital, an owned city, or an owned unit - in that order. Up... Continue reading

  
• Big graphical update
  February 14, 2024 by BenL

  This patch contains a number of features/fixes that make the game feel move alive and responsive, I've just got a couple more things to smooth out around the actual in-game interactions and effects, t... Continue reading

  
• Some more minor improvements
  February 12, 2024 by BenL

  In the past few days I've pushed a number of minor fixes/improvements out to improve gameplay. "Actions List" in-game will now render to the full width of the container "Context Menu" in-game will ren... Continue reading
• Another step in the graphical overhaul
  February 09, 2024 by BenL

  This update contains a few more steps towards the complete overhaul to 2d sprites, and a rework of the UI to a style I feel is more fitting. I've tweaked the movement of the screen when you click and... Continue reading

  
• Small graphical update
  November 04, 2023 by BenL

  Small update today that reworks all of the units to render as animated 2d sprites. Based on how well this appears to have gone I am now considering reworking how I render the tile upgrades/modifiers (... Continue reading
• Multiplayer games re-enabled
  October 19, 2023 by BenL

  I have re-enabled the multiplayer menu buttons, and you are now able to create/join multiplayer games. I cannot guarantee 100% stability with these games but I don't recall any game-save breaking bugs... Continue reading
• Single player is now public
  July 29, 2023 by BenL

  After a bit of a hiatus, the single player game is now publicly available for download! The game currently contains most of the single-player functionality and very basic AI implementations. You can p... Continue reading
• Single player improvements
  March 07, 2023 by BenL

  A number of improvements to the single-player game today. Each AI will now analyse the map and take their turn accordingly, you will be in a locked camera mode during this time until the AI turns are... Continue reading
• Single-player V1
  March 04, 2023 by BenL

  Today's build include the first iteration of the single-player game of Pick a Tile. From the main menu you can select the newly added "Single player - Debug" button to begin a new game; this is in the... Continue reading

  
• Minor tweaks and preparations
  February 24, 2023 by BenL

  Just a couple of minor corrections ready for the next playtest, must critical change is the fact that all T2 research will now cost 18 points to unlock rather than seemingly random costs. Further itch... Continue reading
• UI updates
  February 21, 2023 by BenL

  Today rolls out another load of UI reworks into the game, and we will now always attempt to refer to a user by their chosen alias rather than their identifier. This update replaces most of the default... Continue reading
• Itch Integration
  February 20, 2023 by BenL

  Just a small update today with minimal functional changes to gameplay, but it introduces some core functionality that will allow me to integrate further with the itch.io application and check for vali... Continue reading
• In-game player status indicators
  February 14, 2023 by BenL

  Another quick update pushed out that adds player-status indicators into the game menu. This will list all players in the game, the background of each item corresponds with the colour used in-game. The... Continue reading
• Some concurrency fixes
  February 14, 2023 by BenL

  I've hopefully resolved the back-end issue stopping new accounts actually being created in the database - you should now be able to change your name/add friends etc. Added a reset password button beca... Continue reading
• Game-flow improvements
  February 10, 2023 by BenL

  Todays relatively small update includes a new skybox, some minor user-flow improvements, and the logic is now in place to actually end a game in the client on completion... Continue reading
• Graphical overhaul
  February 07, 2023 by BenL

  Continuing the theme from the last update, this one replaces almost all of the existing models with some more modular ones. This update also replaces all of the placeholder capsules for units and uses... Continue reading

  
• Font change and actions feed improvements
  February 06, 2023 by BenL

  Just a quick update that replaced the font on some of the smaller text areas to become more readable. I've also improved the details that appear in the actions feed to display the action performed, th... Continue reading
• Pick a tile is now on itch!
  February 05, 2023 by BenL

  Here we are, itch io... Primarily I've placed the game here for the time being so that I do not need to send out a full windows ZIP through discord and can instead allow people to use itch for access... Continue reading