Candle’Bre Demo 2 Is Now Available!!

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Just below, you’ll find a selection of screen shots that will give you a solid incation of the overall “look and feel” of the game in its current state, and, taken with this description, will give you an inside view of the game’s current abilities and capabilities, so hang on to your hats, cos it’s gonna be a thrilling ride!

Starting off at the Faction Selection screen (1), you’ll see that you have five choices of whom to play. Each of the five have unique abilities that make them play very differently, and this equation changes somewhat with each build as new and interesting features are added! Your favorite today might not be your favorite tomorrow, and your favorite approach to the game today might be overshadowed tomorrow by something new! Thus is the ever-changing, ever-evolving nature of the Candle’Bre Universe.

Once you’ve settled on your Faction of choice, you begin interacting with the game world, and it interacts back in a variety of ways. While you’re managing your estates, the AI is managing the estates of the other groups, and of course, The Fates will sometimes drop by unannounced, with either a small boon or bane (2).

As the Kingdom is being torn apart by a civil war, one of the things you’ll probably want to do is raise an army, either to defend your holdings, or to take someone else’s (or both), and as such, some ability to manage your troops is important (3). Right now, you can name, split, and merge armies in the same province, and in future builds, the ability to “manually split” armies is coming, so stay tuned!

Of course, raising an army isn’t the only thing there is to do when you’re the Master of one of the Courts of Candle’Bre, and to that end, some means of province interaction is needed for any would-be ruler (4). Mostly, this is handled via “right-clickable” popup menus (5).

When you order something to be done, you’ve got a stable of computer advisors (nameless souls), who carry out your will and report back to you when various assignments are completed (6).

Unfortunately, your nameless advisors also sometimes bear bad news, like when a rival faction shoves large doses of lightning down the throats of your much cherished army (7).

And, you’ll be pleased to know that the world changes as time passes. Seasons are clearly demarked in the World of Candle’Bre, and winter (8) can be a dangerous time to be out attacking…

No need to worry though, because no matter what the season, there’s always plenty of stuff to do, provided you’ve built the right infrastructure of course. Here, I’m referring to making strategic and tactical use of Spells, Miracles, and Espionage Missions to further your ambitions (9).

Some Acts of Fate are random chance, and others are by design, and crafted especially for the specific faction you decide to play (10).

Sure, you can rush blindly into any neighboring province and attack it, and even take it over, but wise is the conquerer who takes a moment to investigate the lands he’s about to invade…. ( 11, 12, & 13).

Either way though, whether by careful consideration, or headlong rush, in the end, it’s likely going to come to battle (14), and when it does, after the blood and muck of hand to hand combat, there is a siege of the province’s defense works to endure (15).

While you’re waiting for word that your army has been victoious, both on the field and in the siege (16), you can turn your attentions to more esoteric matters, like research (17), and once you HAVE taken control of a shiny new province, there’s the (usually unhappy) local populace to deal with (18).

Every ruler likes to sit back and count his gold, and the Lords of Candle’Bre are no different. Press F1 in the game to bring up a summary of your gold and resource assets! (19). Good for planning that next conquest, as if you gain “100″ of any particular asset, you gain a special economic or other in-game bonus for that resource, and these can be quite powerful!

But, if counting your gains (ill gotten or otherwise) has gotten stale, then sit back and enjoy taking a survey of your holdings…there’s a surprising lot of information in the three tabs of the province information screen (21, 22, and 23)

And after you’ve basked in the glories of your growing Kingdom, you can revel in the new capabilities that are your thanks to your investments! (24).

And if you like the sounds of all this, just wait till you see what we have in store for future builds!

Enjoy the gallery!

-=Vel=-