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peakofempires

by taxicomics

Cart #peakofempires-3 | 2025-04-07 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License

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Best played in fullscreen or with a controller

Welcome to Peak Of Empires v1.0!

How To Play

Click units or buildings to view their stats and actions. Keep an eye on your resources, which are wood, food, stone, gold and housing. Make sure to build enough houses and send your workers to work! Once you've given them a task they will try to keep doing it until there is nothing in their vicinity left to interact with.

Whenever the game spots a "lazy" worker it will offer you to select that worker with a button next to your minimap.

Although the game does support controllers it is best played with the mouse.

How to beat

Make sure to get rid of all the enemies units on the map. Once you've done that you've beaten that scenario and can advance to the next one.
More about the game

This is a small bite-sized Age Of Empires demake with 5 scenarios to beat.

The idea came from this post on the PICO-8 forum, and I'm happy that oNek agreed to collaborate on this game.

UPDATES

7.4.25 added in-game instructions

Really well done! It took me a while to figure out that I could right click stuff after selected a worker to get the worker to acquire resources. Once I understood that the first stage was smooth sailing. I'll see how powerful I can make my civilizations in the coming stages.

It's like playing a pocket version of the real thing! Feels like a full game. The right click wasn't obvious straight away, had to check comments. I found the scrolling edge a little thin. Would player 2 arrows for the camera be possible without losing mouse control?
I really enjoyed this game! Cheers!

Thank you very much for the feedback! I added some in-game instructions, thank you for pointing that out.
I'm excited to see what civilizations you can come up with, don't hesitate to share screenshots <3
The scrolling is sadly a browser issue, it is much more enjoyable in-engine. But the idea with P2 controls sounds neat, I'll try that. I will also eventually share an executable once the first round of feedback is incorporated.