Gekokujō

A game I was making for GB Comp 2025. Ended up not quite getting finished. But seeing as a lot of time was spent on it I wanted to submit it for some review and feedback anyway.

This is a Risk-like strategy game, that uses cards instead of dice. Set in the Sengoku period of Japan. You play as the Oda against 6 other clans and rebels. Features a massive campaign map of 61 regions, campaign and battle AI and a 82 card deck.

Several features were removed in order to make this WIP release stable. Such as Daimyo's and Shinobis which were special characters that you could create at cost but could move around and impact the game and battles quite a lot. And retreating doesn't work, which unfortunately greatly impacts how the rebels are supposed to work. There's no win or lose conditions.

Credits

I used ChatGPT to help with a lot of the art composition.

Music and SFX from TipTopTomCat

Created in GB Studio

Post-Mortem

I feel I should have pulled down the scope a lot and made a more traditional Risk-like game. It would have been fundamentally done in the first month! What took time was the cards and menus to interact and play them as well as the cost/benefit effects. And after that trying to implement the special characters was even more complex. And debugging these things was very difficult in GB Studio.

I learned a lot making this project, and created some cool tech I intend to use again in a simpler conquest game.