Grow Pompeii into a prosperous city before Vesuvius erupts

A hex-based cards-game about building your city next to Vesuvius - the volcano that ended ancient Pompeii.

Made Within 7 Days for the Godot Wild Jam 79 with the theme 'Growing' and the wild card "One Handed - you only need one hand to play".

*Best played on desktop!

How to Play

Buildings and Resources

• Grow your kingdom by using cards to place buildings.
• Buildings generate resources at regular intervals.
• Accumulate resources to construct buildings with higher yields.
• Get free building cards when a new day rises!

Eruptions

• Vesuvius erupts frequently, causing things to light up on fire.
• Extinguish the fires or let them spread in order to clear areas.
• Extinguishing fires generates faith.
• Race against the clock! - Eventually the volcano will totally erupt and destroy everything.

Faith

• Faith is a special resource that can be used to buy cards from the Shop.
• Only rare buildings generate faith!
• Rare buildings' cards have a blue border.

Score Increases by

• Placing buildings.
• Placing rare buildings.
• Extinguishing fires.
• Gathering resources.
• Surviving.

Get the highest score possible before the Vesuvius erupts!

Controls

Mouse Only

• Left click on cards to enter build mode
• Right click to exit build mode
• Left click on card while in build mode to exit build mode
• Optional: press 'C' to toggle the CRT  effect
• Left click on fires to extinguish them
  

Credits

• Art, Programming, Game Design and Logo by Aviv Levy
• Music and SFX by Paul Maaswinkel
• Font by Not Jam
• Color Palette MixedBag20 by SoundsDotZip from Lospec
• Made with Godot Engine 4.4 and Pyxel Edit

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