Peasant Uprise Release Date

15 Jan 2023Developer post

Defend Your Peasants

Hello dear peasants! While my focus in 2022 was testing I identified some features that needed to be added for all of the Peasant Uprise ecosystem to make sense. These new features strengthen the game's idea that there are different ways to face the enemy and different resources

Hello dear peasants!

While my focus in 2022 was testing I identified some features that needed to be added for all of the Peasant Uprise ecosystem to make sense.

These new features strengthen the game's idea that there are different ways to face the enemy and different resources to protect your precious peasants.

Shields

During testing my peasants with a higher health pool were still dying fairly often and I wanted to emphasize the arc-type role of a "tank" while still staying true to the reality that a peasant can never be stronger than a trained armed soldier.

Another issue detected, was that some resources like wood or metal were only used for trading after you built all the facilities. So adding things that wear out such as shields would still deem these resources more useful!

The path forward was to allow peasants to wield a shield instead of a farm tool. This will give the peasant a defense value were some of the damage intake could be mitigated by the shield. Of course, the shield would need repairs and could break as well.

Armor

While Shields added a much needed damage mitigation for tanks, I wanted to give the player other options to further protect the peasants without compromising what weapon they can take. So I created a new item, a metal armor, that could be equipped under their clothes. This is an important defense upgrade but it's rather expensive to craft, which makes metal a more desired and required resource. Since iron is not available in all levels, planning your path to Swayne becomes increasingly important.

Crafting

I did not want to create new facilities to craft these items so I resorted to make the workbench a production facility where you can choose and queue what to craft. This system is the same as crafting potions so it's consistent with how other production options work.

What's Next

The game is still on a complete state, however testing, testing and more testing needs to be done. Yes, unfortunately, this is the less "exciting" part of game development but it's necessary not only for finding bugs but also for balancing the game and understanding if new functionality is need to fill certain gaps.

Aside from that, I will have to update the tutorial to match the changes added to the game as well as covering some of the new features added since I created the tutorial, specially combat tactics.

With that said, I expect great things for this project in 2023.

Happy journey!

Original post

01 Nov 2021Developer post

Feasts & Stats

Hello dear peasants! Peasant Stats As a way to balance the game I had for a while been tracking stats on peasants; things such as who got the kill? How much damage did each peasant receive? How much work did each peasant produce? etc. These were meant to be used as a way to balan

07 Jul 2021Developer post

The Weapons of Peasant Uprise

Hello dear peasants! With the feature set and game almost complete, I’ll take the time to introduce the tools and weapons at your disposal in the Peasant Uprise journey. One point to make is that I interchangeably use tools and weapons because in the Peasant Uprise world your her

Hello dear peasants!

With the feature set and game almost complete, I’ll take the time to introduce the tools and weapons at your disposal in the Peasant Uprise journey.

One point to make is that I interchangeably use tools and weapons because in the Peasant Uprise world your heroes are peasants and they’ll use the farming tools that they’re most comfortable with to engage in combat.

I’m very proud of the evolution of this feature because there is a lot of depth into tools yet the player can choose to pay more attention to it and manage the best tool for each peasant or it can be something automatic that you can assign.

So let’s jump right into it!

Tools are divided into three groups, light, normal and heavy. Yes, the bigger the weapon the more energy it will take for each swing and the slower to use. However, the heavier weapons do a lot more damage and have a higher chance to proc their abilities.

Each weapon has one special ability out of the three available that can proc with each swing.

Slash tools have the bleed ability which is a health debuff over time.
Pierce tools are capable of inflicting a critical hit, which greatly increases the damage output.
Blunt tools can stun the target, giving the peasants valuable seconds to take the enemy down.

T O O L • • • • •	G R O U P • • • • •	A B I L I T Y • • • • •	E F F E C T • • • • •
Sickle	Light	Slash	Bleed
Dagger	Light	Pierce	Critical Hit
Tongs	Light	Blunt	Stun
Axe	Normal	Slash	Bleed
Saw	Normal	Slash	Bleed
Knife	Normal	Pierce	Critical Hit
Pickaxe	Normal	Pierce	Critical Hit
Hammer	Normal	Blunt	Stun
Lute	Normal	Blunt	Stun
Scythe	Heavy	Slash	Bleed
Pitchfork	Heavy	Pierce	Critical Hit
Shovel	Heavy	Blunt	Stun

You’ll discover that each tool is unique in one way or another, they might not pour a lot of damage but they may have a higher chance to proc their abilities. The following panel as shown below will give the player a better indication of the best use for each tool.

While strength is important to hit your enemies hard, so is energy, as an exhausted peasant will not deal too much damage, regardless of the strength or weapon. The energy consumption is also related to the tool in use. So while heavy weapons will do a lot of damage at first, they’ll decay shortly after due to its higher energy ‘cost’. However there are some things at your disposal to counter exhaustion such as herbal tea and also just having an overall higher stamina. That’s an example of why matching each tool to the right peasant is important.

Tools also deteriorate with each use both in combat and at camp so it’s recommended to get an anvil and forge to repair your tools so you’re better prepared for the tough encounters ahead.

In game, using tools is rather simple and in most cases the player will not have to think too hard about it, but as the game progresses and you start facing bosses, a bit more planning will go a long way.

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Happy journey!

Original post

Peasant Uprise

Updates & announcements

Defend Your Peasants

Shields

Armor

Crafting

What's Next

Feasts & Stats

Peasant Stats

Feasts

The Weapons of Peasant Uprise

Factions & Bosses

Factions

Milton’s Alliance

Miner’s Brotherhood

Sayon’s Cult

Boss Fights

Alpha Testing Phase