Heartland Frontier
A downloadable game for Windows
[DEC 22: PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A DISCONTINUED PROTOTYPE. IT REMAINS AVAILABLE FOR YOUR INTEREST ONLY. I WILL NOT UPDATE THIS GAME]
The Heartland Frontier is the last untamed realm on Atea. Feuding lords and barbarian chieftains squabble among themselves, while the Great Powers exploit and colonise your homeland.
Your job is to unify this patchwork quilt of competing interests and faiths into a single power capable of resisting the foreign invaders who seek to subjugate and exterminate.
Heartland Frontier is a character-based medieval strategy game where you explore, build a power base, expand your influence and destroy the great armies who come to rape and pillage your homeland.
Explore
The Heartland is a divided realm split between warlords, barbarians and agents of the Great Powers. Explore the Frontier to find allies, trade goods and ancient ruins.
Expand
Build your agricultural and industrial bases to accommodate your growing population and military. Tap into trade goods for unique bonuses that directly affect gameplay.
Exploit
Approach your neighbours with diplomacy and recruit them as loyal lieutenants. Or capture them on the field of battle and personally execute them, sowing chaos among their people.
Exterminate
Grow too strong too quick and the Great Powers will send their legions onto the frontier to burn and pacify. Exterminate their explorers and generals.
Dynamic World
Heartland Frontier is a medieval story generator. Every game you play has different characters, resources and events based on a proceduraly generated world.
Character Design
Customise your class, faith and background before the start of the game. Each choice directly effects gameplay, from the abilities available in your toolkit, to what religious festivals you celebrate, to your starting position can all be tailored.
Event-based Content
Based on your current situation the game generates events that add depth and encourage player choice with multiple options.
Credits
Art: Shikashi
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Install instructions
For now because the game is updated so often, it is more convenient to compile the application as a single runtime executable, this makes your life easier because you don't have to manually install / uninstall the game, all you do is remove it from your recycling bin.
This way does have its drawbacks. Because it is a single runtime executable, by default Windows thinks the application is malicious and will warn you.
Rest assured there is no malicious aspect to my code, the admins here on itch would have banned my account long ago if that was the case.
Development log
- Faction Update - v0.3Jul 31, 2020
- Heartland Frontier Content Update - v0.2.9May 01, 2020
- Heartland Frontier Content Update - v0.2.8Apr 24, 2020
- Heartland Frontier Content Update - v0.2.7Apr 17, 2020
- Heartland Frontier Content Update - v0.2.6Apr 10, 2020
- Heartland Frontier Content Update - v0.2.5Apr 03, 2020
- Heartland Frontier Content Update - v0.2.4Mar 27, 2020
- Heartland Frontier Content Update - v0.2.3Mar 20, 2020