Step into the shoes of an Anglo-Saxon king and navigate a dynamic world where every decision shapes the fate of your kingdom. Your mission? To unite England as Bretwalda before the Norman invasion. With procedurally generated events, no two playthroughs will be the same.
We invite you to play Be the Ruler: Prologue and share your feedback with us. Your thoughts are invaluable in helping us shape the full game experience!
Get the game now and become the ruler you were meant to be!
New Trailer of Be The Ruler: Britatnia
New Trailer Alert for Be The Ruler!
We're excited to share that the new trailer for Be The Ruler is now live!
As a king, establish a dynasty, forge alliances, and defend your realm through the ages. Every playthrough crafts a new narrative where your choices matter. Now fully in 3D :)
Want to talk with us more about the trailer? Join our Discord server!
Long Live Wessex, Be The Ruler Team
Dev Diary #4 - Worldbuilding - Chippenham
Hello!
We've been busy these past weeks building the script for the prologue, setting up the quests, and creating the environment you'll be playing in during the prologue. We've also been creating the NPC generator, setting up the stories and motivations of the NPCs.
In the prologue you will be defending Chippenham from a Viking attack led by Haflan, son of Ragnar Lothbrok. Your vassals, allies, and whoever else you can convince as King Alfred, King of Wessex, and potential Bretwald will help you in your battles!
See a video of the current Chippenham (still Work In Progress) and step by step how it was created:
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Dev Diary #3 - Be the Ruler: Britannia - Furnishing!
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Hi!
More Dev Diary for the new Ruler in 3D! This time see how we furnished the rooms and polished the fort :)
In the fort we have created rooms for your advisors (Chancellor, Treasurer and Spymaster), as well as a war room and bedrooms for you and your family!
Dev Diary #2 - Royal Feast!
Hey!
It's been a long time since we wrote anything🙂 We've been working on the royal fort for the past week.
For the past week we have been working mainly on the royal fort. And in it, a royal feast where you will build relationships with your subjects!
Besides that, we are currently working on:
showing the first in-game event already directly from gameplay, so you can see what the game itself looks like!
working on the first years of gameplay for the demo, to put everything we have together into a 15-20 minute game. Keep your fingers crossed! After that we will start closed alpha testing as well🙂
next week working on a special surprise - battles! Who would a king be without battles?
We will also want to launch Patreon under our project - what do you think? 🙂
We're moving to 3D - new dev diary! A glimpse at NPCs and scene construction.
Hi!
You might have seen it on our social media, and now it’s time to make it official – we are moving Be the Ruler to Unity engine and into 3D!
Why? After the last beta testing, we noticed that the gamers’ approach was a bit on a technical side. Their in-game choices were dictated more by resource management than role playing and living through the stories we created. This put us kinda in a Reigns corner, and we didn’t like it. So, to make Be the Ruler more immersive, we’re adding 3D environments to walk around and smell the medieval air. It will allow you to experience being a king in a much deeper way.
All graphics are work in progress. We only started working on them in April, but we already want to show you a glimpse of what the characters in the game will look like 🙂
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And this is how we build the first castle scene:
And also from working on the graphic style:
On a more technical note, our process for moving the game to Unity:
Done: – integration with csv files – npc table – marriages + children – attributes (WIP) – log player table – recognition of 1/3 tags in text – recognition of 1/3 areas – recognition of ⅓ consequences – parent/children events – camera movement + player controller – lip sync – voice reading – event showing
Expect more news – we want to give you a new demo as soon as possible!
Beta Tests - Live Now!
Hi!
We're starting Be the Ruler beta tests! Do you want to try our game and tell us what do you think? Join our Discord channel here: https://discord.gg/KRJZPhDxtv and write "I am the King!"
We need your help! :)
Dev Diary November
Welcome, Your Majesties!
I hope that managing your kingdoms hasn’t been too exhausting lately and you can spare a few moments to read what we’ve got in store for you this time. By my troth, it’s certainly worth your time.
Here’s a list of the things that have been done:
Fixed death notifications
Enhanced speed of the game (while playing longer)
New sounds and music implemented
Fixed various bugs
New events regarding romance
Enhanced investment events
New Illustrations
Sketches for upcoming illustrations
Partially balanced attribute system
Eager to know what we’re currently working on? Here it is:
Balancing and unifying attributes
Preparing old event trees to be more complex
New illustrations based on sketches
Speeding up the UI animations
Bug fixes
Let us know what you think and for now... Fare thee well,
Marcelina xxx
Dev Diary October
Welcome back Your Highnesses!
Long time no see, but we are back with a brand new dev diary ready to tell you everything about all the stuff coming up. Hope you’re just as excited as we are. So let’s dive right in!
Here’s what’s been done up until this point:
- New Tutorial, walking the player through resources, prestige, spies, wars and superwitan - Options menu with music and sound effects volume - Special events with information about attributes and the born children - Events and consequences debug - Background instead of black bars - Graphics of children - New foreign countries military power illustrations - Romance illustrations sketches - Enhanced investment events - Enhanced romance events - New sound effects for events and UI, new voices for characters, new music scores for victory and defeat - Unifying animations throughout the game
Obviously, we couldn’t just end it without telling you what’s to come, so here’s what’s currently in the making:
- Balancing and unifying attributes - Enhancing the game loading speed - New sound effects and music implementation - Balancing events - Npc death notifications
As always we’d love to hear your thoughts on the game. Stay tuned and until the next one!
Marcelina xx
Dev Diary September #2
Hey kings,
Another week, another development diary! A little update to keep you guys posted on all the cool things we've added this week and some future updates.
So without further ado, here's what's been done so far:
- Battle, win, lose soundtrack - New illustrations - Summary of the year preparation, stage I: ongoing and completed events, warnings
- Prototype of the year summary preparation, stage II: the most important events
- Stories section containing ongoing events, completed events, lost events
- A drop-down view of the tree in the Stories section
- Stories section animations - Offensive and defensive events debug
What's to come:
- Year summary animations - Npc selection screen debug - New pawn drawings for the map - New illustrations - Music jingles for various types of events
And that's it for now, hope you like it and see you all very soon Marcelina xx
