Era Battler

Stay one step ahead in a bite-sized arms race. Start the fight with clubs, finish it with tanks!

Controls

1 2 3 4 5 6, or Q W E A S D	Spawn unit 1/2/3/4/5/6
Z C, or left/right arrow keys	Orbit camera right/left
R F, or up/down arrow keys	Zoom camera in/out

Introduction

An attempt to recreate the classic Age of War in 3D. The core gameplay consists of spawning units and gaining experience when they defeat enemy units. Earning enough experience moves that player to the next 'era', which provides new, more powerful units to spawn. The goal is to be the last player with a base still standing.

Features

• Campaign Mode - play a series of increasingly-difficult battles and gain technologies after each match until your lives run out
• Skirmish Mode - play a single match against any number of AI opponents, or spectate an AI-only match
• Five eras
• 22 distinct units
• Simple and predictable unit AI
• Rudimentary enemy player AI, which changes behavior based on current game state
• Four unique maps
• Four techs
  

Fine Details

• Every era's units are approximately 3 times as powerful as the units in the previous era.
• Each unit gains experience per kill and may level up themselves, healing slightly and gaining power. At max level, they bleed HP until at 1 HP.
• Each unit a team has on the board increases the cost of any units spawned, and higher-level units increase the cost even more. The cost increase goes away when the unit dies.
• Units of higher level grant significantly more experience and money to the team that kills it.
• All teams gain money passively, which increases as they progress through the eras.
• "Difficulty" increases as the player advances in the campaign, and can be set manually at the start of a campaign or a skirmish. It increases enemy units' damage, max HP and attack frequency, and randomly grants techs to enemy teams.
• After reaching the final era, the era bar will fill backwards with yellow when experience is gained. When the bar is filled, the yellow is reset to zero and all of that team's bases gain 1 armor. Armor negates a single attack per stack.

About

Abandoned summer 2020. Made in Unity.