For some time now, with your help, I have been creating my game - an RPG/strategic Dark Lord simulator.And now it is the time for the big update, focusing primarily on the endgame. Players focused on direct conquest will have new ways to find new battlefields - portals to crazy, Lovecraftian worlds, discovering new lands, and a magical slumber to wait for the rebirth of old enemies/the emergence of new ones (and seeing how the world changes in their absence). For players more interested in the less brutal side of world domination, the options for managing the territories of our empire will be expanded. Will you allow orcs to overrun Dark Elf cities? Will schools focus on training engineers for the army and economy, or on brainwashing them into blind obedience? Furthermore, I’m expanding the Dark Lord’s interactions with other characters, including available romances. Of course, new content requires testing, and since, as usual, it’s highly non-linear and dependent on player decisions (plus random generation), I can’t test every combination myself.That’s why I’m seeking the help of testers. All you need to do is play once—one playthrough lasts about 1.5 hours (as I mentioned, the game is highly non-linear and is meant to be played multiple times, each time revealing a different story) and send me a short report (specifically, indicating if you’ve spotted any obvious bugs).Game, as always, is available free here: https://adeptus7.itch.io/dominion No need for dowload or registration.And another news - one of the players made a fan song inspired by the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mPcsUonuyo
Looks like one of those dime a dozen twine games.
>>2356105>Looks like one of those dime a dozen twine games.Hello! Yes, it was made in Twine. However, I dare to say it is one of the biggest Twine games, with more than 1000 scenes. Plus, most of the "interactive fiction" games nowadays are some woke "explorations of feelings" - this one has actual mechanics, tactics and more action-focused story.
>>2356106Yeah, no thanks. Good luck tho.
>>2356108Thanks, good luck for You too!
good luck based ESL poledev. I played your game and didn't notice any bugs. I'm always a fan of games where you're the dark lord, so the theme was nice. The gameplay gets kind of tedious with influence and troop raising, didn't feel very strategic. I did a sneaky tempter playthrough where I played everyone off against each other and won easily, and then an orcmaxxing barbarian playthrough where I lost horribly.>>2356106>most of the "interactive fiction" games nowadays are some woke "explorations of feelings"I think most are porn actually. Speaking of which, what your game made me want to do more than anything is play Ravager again to see where it's at now with updates.
>>2356103looks like AI crap
>>2356103Trash game, broken shit, go kill yourself.
>>2356562Thank You very much, I think I found source of the bug and fixed it.
>>2356103I was going to ask if we didn't have this thread just archived... and then I realised I'm on /vst/ and not /tg/
>>2356103Can I knock up an elven vampire like the one in the top left panel? Making heirs is uh very important to me.
>>2357187no, I waifued her but no breeding occurred. Ravager is still the ultimate game for dark lord breeding harem shit, too bad it's also a scaly game since you play as a literal dragon
>>2357290Well, she is actually the only potential consort which you cannot have child with. Maybe I will add it in the next update.
If I wanted to read AI slop I'd go generate some myself.
>>2357366Scenario and texts are my work. It is just that I am a writer, not an artist.
buy an ad you slop nigger
>>2357679>stop shilling this free game!
>>2357711It's not even a game. twine is just a way to deliver gifs to sissy hypno addicts
>>2356103>kolażpolack slop detected, go pay your midjourney slop subscription
>>2356103pretty gud. but i find it unfair that the "chosen one" can instant kill u later if you don't have enough Human Influence to ass-sin him before he gets powerful.
>>2357143i realised the thread is one month old and OP should have posted in >>>>>/vrpg/3951559but /vrpg/ might be deader than /vr/.
>>2356103Looks interesting.
>>2356103What is the real difference between domination and influence because one seems to lead to the other, especially as I am going for a Sauron route. Without going into to many details, can you go fully into one race? Not just between the humans, elves and dwarves but even foregoing your greenskins and otherwise to maximize your forces racially? Green horde, united Humanity, Dwarven Legion, etc.
>twine game with AI art>no lewdsDead on arrival
>>2381344>Without going into to many details, can you go fully into one race?yes but greenskins are pretty weak and lacking in events even if you play as a warlord which get a "free" orc general.and in most playthroughs, an event will start where a human hero is found and you will need to have high human influence to murder the hero , or the hero will OHKO you in lategame. so even if you wanna focus on just one race, you need to have about 6 influence in humans to survive the hero event.>>2381465some of the AI art if good. this is not a hentai game. it does have waifus but only if you play as a male.
>>2381578Alright, that seems fair. I will keep an eye on the six influence for the humans. For the record I am actually enjoying it quite strongly, I have played a few times with varying levels of "strategy" just to get a feel for it. I have so far defeated the humans, got the elves on my side and lost to the dwarves. I will say though I am not particularly fond of the randomness of some events, for example the assassination tasks. Is there some method behind my assassin failing and succeeding? On my first run my elven assassin seemed to have 100% success rate but afterwards he always loses and dies. I am not asking for a cheat option or anything but is there anything on my end I can do to maximise my chances with him? I'm quite into Elves, Light and Dark, so he definitely is my favourite 'special' character. On the topic of waifus, who are they racially and how many are there? I have not found any yet though I like the idea of being able to marry the Elven Queen, an adoption to pursue that instead of the turncoat Elves killing her would be interesting. My instinctual Dark Lord ambition would be to rule with the Elves only, with me as their Lord and God.
>>2381646*an optionAdopting an Elven Queen is a funny concept though.
>>2381646>elven assassin seemed to have 100% success rate but afterwards he always loses and dies.survival increases if you have high influence in that kingdom, but the elf ass-sin will ALWAYS die if you send him to kill the human hero.no elf queen adoption. go msg the polandball dev on itch. io about it.>waifus.so far i've found the human paladin, the snake woman, vampire girl, pirate elf, and 1 succubus. i don't think you can marry the succ though. i think only the warlord and temptress class got marriage options but it might be random? i forgot. tyrant class will alway try to kill the snake people because raging autism, unless you're an earth mage.
>finally found a sequel to Defiler Wings
>>2382055I don't have an itchio account to leave a message and since the dev posted here then hopefully he will have read my post and become hopelessly obsessed with tailoring his free game to my personal preferences. I am assuming this is going to happen.
Oh, I had no clue that this thread was not closed! A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one! So, of course, in meantime, I was updating the game... And you know what? One of the things I ades was option to make Queen of Elves your concubine. She is available for the Tyrant - to maximalize chance, you should have big Influence with humans and elves and invade land of elves before the dwarves. Of course there are also some other changes - e.g. I tried make "pure Influence" victory slightly more difficult and orcs slightly more usefull. New update is not officially published yet, but You can play it here: https://adeptus7.itch.io/playtestingIf You see anything which looks like a bug, please send me a screenshot, including stats - it will help me find source of the problem.
>>2384459Very, very, nice. Total Elven Supremacy (under my Tyrant's watchful gaze and proud protection). Would you say twenty influence for the Elves and ten for the Humans would do it? Either way I shall not be denied my half-elven children.
>>2384459>>2384481I just played a bit and won the war, this is everything I wanted. Perfect job, well done this is great.
>>2384481Well, I think that 10 for the Elves and 7 for the Humans should suffice.
>>2384459The fact I can also sacrifice the orcs in the battle with the dwarves, take the Elvish artifacts off them to give as a present to my wife and chosen people whilst also barring them from the cities of elf and man is, again, perfect.
>>2384523I ended up going with 20 and 10 anyway but it all worked out in the end, also I think the ai art is great.
>>2384521O, you found a bug! Thanks! I fixed it. If You want to be mentioned in the "thank you" section, but don;t want to namefag here, You can give me Your name/nick in the comment on itch or send on marekzegarek77777@gmail.com
>AI generated slopDeath by data center explosion
>>2384541The only name I shall go by is "Elf-Breeder", whether or not that is acceptable to you is your business.
>>2384662I will add it, why not (in the Polish evening, I have no access now). >>2382055Hmm, You chouls have an option to make succubus (Namaah) your consort. Don't you hae it? Anyone had?
>>2384873>have an option to make succubus (Namaah) your consort. Don't you hae it? Anyone had?i was hardly able to summon her. she's a random demon summon while playing as tyrant i think?
>>2384523i thought the useful limit for influences is 9?
>>2384983ok i think a blog i found said the SUCC can be married by Tempter or Warlord, but so far in the beta test posted by OP, > https://adeptus7.itch.io/playtestingmy tempter kept screwing up his demon summons. every single demon tried to kill me! i reloaded and summoned good olde undead instead.
>>2384984Yes, but Anon was determined to establich elven supremacy :)>>2384983Yes, she is random, but she should be summonable for the other archetypes too.BTW, here is first cosplay from the game. Joanna plays female Despotic Tyrant, here is her Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DW83BUsDU_o/?igsh=cnVkNTc1bWdndnJk
>>2384662eh we can post spoilers for games no one cares about now? ok.pic related. i didn't expect shota X vamp ending here...
>>2385425double elf segs babies!
>>2385425Why You have not expected her? She should appear her only if You chose her as a second concubine. I don;t see a bug connected to it, but if she appeared without being chosen before, tell me and I will look for it more carefully.
>>2385443i mean i don't expect a noblewomen vamp to implicitly groom an elf baby. surely not in a polandball game trying to be edgy.
>>2385427Where did the second Elf come from? Perfect ending right there, though the cradle snatcher vamp comes in close behind.>>2385443Though I am a self-admitted waifufag, if you are looking for feedback that is not related to the wives then I'd say it could be interesting to expand the scope of the game - some stuff about ruling post conquest. Perhaps some more threats from monsters, rebellions or would be heroes, the latter would give some room to experiment depending on how you treat your subjects. Having one of the Good races locked firmly in your corner, a loving marriage with the Elven Queen and favouritism to her people, would shake up the classic Dark Lord Heroes' Journey story pretty uniquely. Not necessarily with an interactive epilogue or even a part 2 but a direct expansion of the game as it stands, really I'm just interested to see where you go with it. In case that sounds too good-coded for a dark lord story then you could definitely lean on the corrupted angle - Galadriel when she went all ethereal before Frodo style.
>>2385596>Where did the second Elf come from?that's the pirate elf waifu. to get her, you need to raise elf influence early, choose to convince elves to be more rebellious and take over older elves. but random numbers might stop her from appearing anyway.
>>2385518>>2385596Well, I tried to diversify the characters of the recruitable companionsand Polena (vampire) was supposed to be "torn between a nice girl and a beast".Well, I'm still building out the game, so that's an option - you can try playing other character types (or just not aiming for the elf queen as your wife) to see their endings. If you have any ideas or suggestions about what you would like to see, feel free to post them, maybe I will use at least some of them.
>>2385784>or just not aiming for the elf queen as your wifeLmao, true. I'll experiment some more, warlord with greenskins, influencer with demons etc. How are the Dwarves looking like? I'm trying to place which Dark Lord archetype would be best with them, tyrant perhaps for the order element?>suggestionsWell it already is at a pretty solid state, especially with the amount of options available. I would just reiterate that some post-conquest content and kingdom management would be enjoyable though that comes back to the question of scope and I don't want to give the impression that I'm asking you to change the game to some spreadsheet simulator. I liked the option to spend your wealth on forges and that sort of decision-making could be shown again.
Despite performing successful raids I've never had any slaves, is there some other way?
>>2385908Hmm, there is one special dwarven character which appears only for the Tyrant. Tempter can boost "mad inventor" tendencies of the dwarves, which make them more likely to develop magical nuke, which can be very usefull if you take control over the dwarves. And of course you and everyone can ask me for changes. Maybe I will use those suggestions, maybe not, but it is always helpfull to know what players want.
>>2385915Dark elves specialize in slavery, choosing their troops for raids, improves chance of getting slaves.
>>2385920never knew . btw can you explain the elemental-specific magic ambitions? i only ever managed to create the FIRE REALM when playing as the Deathguy/necromancer.Air mage was suppose to study air magic more but never got anywhere for me?Earth mage was suppose to find some sekrit ancient lab.Water mage was suppose to summon a kraken or some sea monster.
>>2386024Hmm, yes, those are special quests connected to the elements. Do anyone here finalize any of them, different than the fire one?
>>2385427well some other screenshots i took for elfsegs.
>>2386141kinda "vanilla" elf-human 3some.
>>2386142the non-3some elf baby ending. wincest implications?
>>2386146i wouldn't enslave an elf queen would i???
>>2386147yes.though an ork orgy would be nice too.very goblinslayer.
>>2386149>ork orgyTotal orkfag death
>>2386212dun be such a spoilsport. elves must be shared!
I like the idea of this game
>>2385226ok managed to summon a SUCC, and fugged her.
>>2390781Nice! So she is working.Do any of You saw any other bugs when playing test version? If no, I will update the official version soon. In meantime, I remind that test version is still available here: https://adeptus7.itch.io/playtestingAnd news - Dominion of Darkness achieved 4th place on the itch.io lits of the best rated strategy games: https://itch.io/games/top-rated/genre-strategy Many thanks to all who have rated it!I want also mention that I am open to cooperation, crosspromotion included. If someone is interested, he can write here or contact me on marekzegarek77777@gmail.com
>>2396956>https://itch.io/games/top-rated/genre-strategycongrats, polandballs.one day you might just be famous enough to give a copy of Witcherer 10: the TCG to the Black King Obama in Kenya!
>>2398146>one day you might just be famous enough to give a copy of Witcherer 10: the TCG to the Black King Obama in Kenya!Thanks, however I would rather give it to the Emperor of Poland.
So I finished it. Played as a Tyrant, subjugated the elf queen, added Kiriela as side bitch... But why only two? True harem would be cool.But this is /vst, so something about strategy. I think it is more interactive fiction with strategy elements for now. But it was cool to infiltrate humans and elves, so they made me their god. Direct conquest of the dwarves was less fun, 2-3 decisions.
>>2402192Thanks. To have a big harem, You have to chose Namaah (succubus) as a second wife. And yes, I admit I have some problem with inventing enough meaningifull events during the battles.
