Kingdom Rule

Kingdom Rule — Full Game Description

Overview

Kingdom Rule is a single-player, god simulation strategy game where you play as the God of Fire, a divine being worshipped by a medieval kingdom called Ashvale. The game is a 100% offline, browser-based sandbox simulation with no image assets—everything is procedurally drawn using Canvas 2D graphics.

Core Concept

You are an omnipotent deity observing your kingdom from above. The King worships you and must obey your commands, but he also has his own personality, schedule, and decision-making. Your role is to:

Command the King to execute royal decrees

Use powerful God Powers to directly intervene in the world

Manage the kingdom's treasury, happiness, faith, crime, and army

Survive threats like plagues, wars, revolts, and starvation

Game Mechanics

The Divine Eye

You control a cursor representing your divine presence

Move the camera with WASD/Arrow keys or mouse-edge panning

Scroll to zoom in and out

Your presence is visible to NPCs who may react to your actions

Kingdom Stats (HUD)

🪙 Treasury — Gold coins for funding operations

👥 Population — Number of living subjects

😊 Happiness — Citizen morale (affects revolts)

🔥 Faith — Belief in you, the God of Fire (affects obedience)

⚔️ Army — Military strength for battles

Day & Time — The kingdom operates on a 24-hour cycle with day/night

Crime — Criminal activity level

God Powers (Keys 1-7)

You have 7 divine powers to directly shape the world:

⚡ Smite — Strike any NPC dead instantly with lightning (works on anyone)

☣ Plague — Unleash a deadly plague mist that sickens and kills

✨ Heal — Cure sickness and restore health to an NPC

👁 Divine Command — Click an NPC to inspect and interact with them

🔥 Inferno — Rain blazing fire on a location, burning enemies and scorching the ground

🌟 Bless — Fully heal an NPC and grant them a holy blessing (boosts mood, faith, loyalty)

🌾 Plenty — Bless the harvest instantly, granting gold and happiness to the kingdom

All powers have visual effects (fire particles, lightning bolts, divine sparkles, plague mist, etc.).

Commanding the King

Press the 👑 Command King button to open the Player Hub, where you can issue royal decrees:

King Commands

Public Execution — Order a prisoner beheaded on the chopping block (crowd watches)

Throw in Dungeon — Imprison any NPC for a random crime

Hold Feast — Increase happiness by hosting a royal banquet

Worship Ceremony — Boost faith with a grand prayer event

Declare War — Attack a rival kingdom (triggers battle sequences)

Set Laws — Enact policies like High Taxes, Conscription, Mandatory Worship, Curfew, Austerity, Weekly Festivals, or Debtors' Amnesty

Raise/Lower Taxes — Adjust tax rates to balance income vs. happiness

The King will sometimes ask you for advice on major decisions (executions, taxes, feasts, worship). You can approve or deny his requests.

NPC AI & Roles

The kingdom is populated by living NPCs with names, stats, and behaviors:

Roles

King — The ruler who prays, holds court, feasts, and makes decrees. His faith and loyalty determine obedience.

Guards & Soldiers — Patrol, defend the kingdom, escort prisoners, fight in battles.

Priest — Prays at the altar, conducts worship ceremonies.

Executioner — Carries out public beheadings.

Jailer — Guards the dungeon cells.

Servants — Tend to the castle, set tables, clean.

Peasants — Common folk who work, gossip, and react to events.

Prisoners — Captured criminals held in dungeon cells (crimes include theft, heresy, treason, witchcraft, etc.).

NPC Stats

HP — Health (die at 0)

Mood — Emotional state

Loyalty — Devotion to the crown

Faith — Belief in you, the God of Fire

Hunger & Energy — Needs that drift over time

NPCs can:

Get sick from plagues (coughing, staggering, dying)

Catch fire from Inferno (panic, run, burn to death)

Be blessed (golden aura, divine sparkles)

Fight in battles (soldiers vs. enemy armies)

Speak dialogue (speech bubbles with context-aware sayings)

Kingdom Rooms

The game world is divided into 7 interconnected rooms:

Throne Room — King holds court, feasts, makes decrees

Worship Chamber — Contains the statue of the God of Fire, altar, candles, prayer mats

War Room — War planning table, maps, horns, military discussions

Courtyard — Public square with market stalls, well, fountain, peasants, soldiers

Execution Yard — Chopping block, gallows, axe rack (public executions here)

Dungeon — Cells for prisoners, chains, racks, jailer

Royal Chamber — King's bedroom with bed, wardrobe, chests

NPCs pathfind between rooms using doors, following scripted daily routines.

Events & Threats

Random Events

Crime waves

Tax collection

Natural faith/happiness drift

Prisoner escapes

King making autonomous decisions

Plague System

Plagues spread daily between NPCs

Sick NPCs cough, stumble, emit green mist particles

Heal or Bless powers can cure them

Unchecked plagues decimate the population

War System

Declare war on rival kingdoms (Vexandria, Nordhelm, Zarath, etc.)

Enemy armies appear as hostile NPCs

Soldiers and guards fight in real-time combat (slashing, dodging, dying)

Battles occur every few days during wartime

Victory grants gold and glory; defeat weakens your army

Revolts

If happiness drops too low, peasants become rebels

Rebels fight guards and cause chaos

You must restore order with god powers or military force

Game Over

If all NPCs die, the game ends

Laws System

You can enact 7 different laws with trade-offs:

Law Effect

High Taxes +8 gold/day, −happiness, +king loyalty

Conscription (Draft) +army daily, −happiness

Mandatory Worship +faith daily, slightly −happiness

Austerity +3 gold/day, −happiness, no feasts

Night Curfew −crime, −happiness at night

Weekly Festival +happiness, −6 gold/day

Debtors' Amnesty +happiness, prisoners may be released

Scenes & Animations

The game features scripted scenes with full NPC choreography:

Public Execution

Prisoner is escorted by guards from dungeon to execution yard

Crowd gathers

Prisoner kneels at the chopping block

Executioner raises axe

Beheading with blood spray, corpse, crowd cheering

Crime stat drops

Feast

NPCs walk to throne room and sit at the table

Eating animation, speech bubbles

Happiness increases

Worship Ceremony

NPCs gather in worship chamber, kneel on prayer mats

Priest leads prayers at the altar

Divine sparkles, faith increases

Visual Effects

Everything is procedurally rendered with particles:

🔥 Fire particles (orange/yellow, rising flames)

💨 Smoke (gray wisps, fade out)

☣️ Plague mist (green fog around sick NPCs)

✨ Divine sparkles (golden, rising from blessed NPCs)

⚡ Lightning bolts (jagged white/blue zaps from sky)

🩸 Blood splatter (red spray on executions/combat deaths)

🔥 Scorch marks (black burn stains from Inferno)

💀 Corpses (bodies fade over time)

🌟 God trail (your cursor leaves a faint divine glow)

Audio

Background music loops from music.wav (can be muted)

Synthesized SFX using WebAudio:

Thunder, lightning, bells, coins

Axe chops, screams, gore

Crowd noise, plague sounds

Healing chimes, fanfare

Save System

3 save slots stored in browser localStorage

Auto-save every in-game day

Save includes all kingdom stats, NPCs, laws, wars, plagues, etc.

Fully offline—no server required

Day/Night Cycle

Time flows in a 24-hour cycle (can be sped up 2x or paused)

Day (8:00–20:00) — bright, NPCs active

Night (20:00–8:00) — dark, NPCs sleep or prowl

King follows a daily schedule (prayer at dawn, court during day, sleep at night)

Lighting dynamically adjusts (darker at night, golden at dawn/dusk)

Art Style

Minimalist 2D top-down view

Procedural pixel art — no sprite sheets or textures

Rooms have brick/stone walls, wooden/dirt floors, props (thrones, altars, beds, etc.)

NPCs are drawn as simplified humanoid figures with:

Skin tones, hair colors, beards

Role-based clothing colors (purple for King, dark for guards, brown for peasants)

Walking animation (8-directional movement)

Unique Features

✅ 100% offline — no assets loaded, all graphics synthesized

✅ God simulation — you are a deity, not a player character

✅ Living NPCs — full AI, schedules, stats, dialogue

✅ Execution scenes — public beheadings with crowd reactions

✅ Real-time combat — soldiers fight enemies in melee battles

✅ Plague system — disease spreads organically through the population

✅ War campaigns — declare war, fight battles, conquer rivals

✅ Dynamic kingdom management — balance gold, happiness, faith, crime

✅ No fail state — play as long as people survive

How to Play

Start a new game or load a save

Move the camera with WASD/arrows

Click the King to command him

Press 1–7 to activate god powers

Manage stats (keep happiness & faith high, treasury stocked)

Execute criminals to lower crime

Declare war for military campaigns

Survive plagues by healing the sick

Enact laws to shape the kingdom

Watch your kingdom thrive or burn 🔥

Kingdom Rule is a sandbox god sim where you balance divine intervention with royal management, all in a living, breathing medieval world that reacts to your every command. 🔥👑