I've Never Played a Post Apocalyptic Fortress Building Game Quite Like BULWARK 

Game looks (aestetic+controls+theme) great, and don't worry - we know that splat has ADHD and is very 'intependent' when it comes to understanding games he play.

​@@uyaratful I didn't know that , I've got ADHD as well, so perhaps that's why I am so impressed with his analysis. he really gets into the details of the systems, most folks only partially grasp what's going on. So love it.

your procedural modeling setup was always something to celebrate, acknoledge and fully revel in ! Insta buy for sure, you are a master at your craft :) Such a rare sight to bring this level of "feel good" toward building and colony sims in a small and accessible way.

The gameplay and UI are great. You only need pay a little attention to learn it and that's it. Love the demo, can't wait for the full release. Game is amazing, keep up the good work!

Really cool game, well done!

Geez the amount of times I have done that. "Crap it is 5 am and I work in 2 hours!" "Hrrrrrm I could go pass out for an hour and half and then get up and go to work" ooooooooooooooooor "I could keep playing stay up for 2 more hours and just go on to work. I have adderal so I'll be fine"

​@@DustinBarlow8PMost famous Last words.

@@DustinBarlow8Pthis is evidence enough for a reevaluation

​@@vladislavivanov2334 "i have adderall and ill be fine" truly last words

Nah

Thanks so much,, I catch a lot of flak for not making this a 'comfort game' you can just slip into.. So thanks for being supportive, it really helps.

​@falconeerdev he the dev 😂😂

Man im so sick of every single new city builder just being Banished

@@falconeerdev don't people play roguelites for comfort? Comfort isn't always easy!

Like the 90s and early 2000

Feel exactly the same. Thanks splat n devs!

Exactly what I was thinking lol

Any plans on a multi-player mode at all ever in the far off distant future? :)

@@Draelyn multiplayer is a big topic, I am not super experienced in that to be honest. The costs to run something like this for multiplayer are also to much for me to afford at the moment. Perhaps if the game is a success, that creates breathing room for experiments, but at the moment that remains to be seen.

@@falconeerdev Well I wish your game the greatest of successes!

Sorry just asking here too, will it be on GOG?​@@falconeerdev

@@falconeerdev AFAIK, you don't need to host servers, you could have a local hosting type thing going on!

If you like the procedural/emergent element to your tabletop worldbuilding, I highly highly recommend Worlds/Cities/Stars Without Number (fantasy/cyberpunk/scifi settings). Kevin Crawford makes all three systems as basically interchangeable d20 based systems, but the big draw for me is that you can generate factions which have their own turns with needs and desires satisfied by automated actions. Essentially the GM has access to their own little game to play with downtime for a more organic and unexpected development of the setting. Sectorswithoutnumber is a website that can automate some of this for you for the sci-fi setting. I don't know if the other settings have had similar tools made yet.

Right!? Makes me very suspicious about what ive REALLY downloaded here..wouldnt surprise if there was a huge courtcase about forced installation of highly invasive spy tools or even some kind of bitcoin miner.. idk, it REALLY doesnt make sense sometimes..especially when its just a rerelease..

That might be the longest question I have ever read

@@Leaf__22 ok

I love Surviving the Aftermath. As far as your question, I don't know. Lot's of games out there I haven't played or heard of so there must be something. Are you at all worried you might lose something going from micro (one map) to macro (an entire planet)? Have you looked into New Cycle? New Cycle might also be just one map but I haven't seen any late game footage or know if there is a campaign that spans the whole world.

@@tjk3430 Not so much losing resources, but just acknowledging the terraforming work done. Like if you pan back from your first tile that is chugging along with it's terraforming project, and has greenified that local geography, you can still see the effects of it on the planetary map. I'm fine with them being so far apart (the various tiles that you work on) that they are effectively isolated, but when I spend hours making this one area a lush, green, oxygen rich paradise, and then start a new game and see the slate wiped clean, it just kind of kills my sense of accomplishment you know? I remember noticing this primarily with Surviving Mars. I do all this stuff, build this amazing society, with all this greenery and stuff, but then when you go to the global shot of mars....it's all still showing as red and desolate. Because each session is an isolated event basically. I'd just like to see one of these colony management games, actually have a macro level to the overall goal. Make it be only minor things that reflect the larger change. Like maybe the starting humidity of a nearby map tile is slightly higher, for being near a terraformed region. Or maybe have any storm effects be stronger when coming from that region, since they've got a denser atmosphere nearby. I'm not looking for like, direct connections of power plants and farms (though some level of commerce would be neat between regions), but just....SOMETHING to reflect the project's results, as I try out different difficulty regions you know? I dunno, it's hard to articulate it beyond that. I love games where I'm restoring balance to a chaotic, hostile/barren location. Encouraging growth and biodiversity, etc. They scratch a particular gamer itch for me that is very satisfying. But it's always like....one town right? Like with Surviving the Aftermath. Your community is only what, a few hundred people at most by the time most people stop playing a session? That's not a very large scale project before you've basically completed the various DLC objectives. I'd just like a game that lets you micro manage smaller regions, but also expand out for a larger scale thing. A game I found recently that kind of does this, but it's still mostly small scale, is Wildmender. As you make your tiny oases of life, it starts to impact the environment around you. Raising the overall humidity, lessening the harsh weather, etc. But it's still a fairly small region. 4 biomes that don't really cross pollinate at all.

@@happyninja42 I too like the type of games you described restoring balance to a hostile world. I love a detailed tech tree.

Bad news for us PC gamers who don't do controllers.

@@msolomonii9825 I generally perfer mouse and keyboard myself even though I have three controllers for when friends come by

I don't know why they would design a game for a controller that doesn't seem to require the kind of input a controller provides over a keyboard.

​@@msolomonii9825 There are two different Mouse Keyboard Schemes for PC players, so that's not entirely true.. I even updated the MKB cursor behavior last week, and there's a settings "hidden build cursor" that you can toggle to undo some of the more unorthodox mouse behaviors. The game has been online as a demo for a year and evolving to improve the Mouse +Keyboard controls. So to say I didn't design it for MKB is wrong, but I didn't start with conventional controls either. I wanted to make a game without buttons and a UI on top of the game world. but UI inside the game world. this like Splattercat says, can take some getting used to. I don't think it takes hours, for the largest amount of people it takes 15 minutes,. To learn the intricacies of the building and what means what, and how you coax the building to get certain results, hours certainly.. But that is part of the game. This is a game about vertical unconstrained building, and to go fully vertical I also needed a new control system. I usually tell folks , I could not make a game where you can build like this with "conventional controls" and nobody else can,, otherwise that game would already exist. I think the closest you get is stuff like minecraft, that is also fully 3D building and it did it with fps controls. Which wasn't super applicable for the scale I wanted. But again. not default top down controls. So to clarify, there is MKB support, there is a bunch of settings and bindings to try out., It doesn't take hours to get too building, but it does click at some point. And no I could not have made a game where you can do what you can do in this game , with conventional controls. Perhaps someone else, better than me,, but me .. nope.

Their last game was also controller centric... some games play better with it, like flying or driving games, which there last was the former.

more or less that surveyor can be upgraded to a more combat oriented model later (4 in total) and then all the commanders you get add their fighters and capital ship to your battlefleet that follows you around. I think the cap is 30 units to follow you.. and then you go to war ;) but you also go and build an offensive fortress and many other creative solutions.

ah, i watched and heard the answer, I have played quite a bit of citybuilder games, i think theyre very fun