Your castle wall is a stone serpent. Steer it around your keep, close the loop, and the land inside becomes your castle. Then hold it against catapults, warships, goblin sappers and fire-breathing dragons.

Made for a game jam with the theme CASTLES. Each round you build for 30 seconds, then defend for 20. Keep your castle ground intact, pick a boon, and see how many rounds your keep survives. 

When classic games meet: Rampart x Snake.

HOW TO PLAY

• Build (30 seconds): swipe to steer the serpent out of the keep. Grey stones add a segment, gold stones add three.
• Seal: touch your own wall, your body or the keep and the serpent sets into permanent wall. Everything fully enclosed becomes castle ground.
• Careful: the map edge, rocks, trees and water crumble the serpent into rubble.
• Siege (20 seconds): tap anywhere to fire the keep's cannon. Towers and archers fire on their own.
• Score and boon: count your ground, towers, buildings and kills, then pick 1 of 3 boon cards.
• The run ends when the keep falls or no castle ground survives a siege.

FEATURES

• Snake-style building: every wall you own was once the serpent's body
• Close loops to claim land; any 2x2 block of wall becomes a cannon tower
• Big wall networks toughen up through three stone tiers
• Courtyards of 12+ tiles raise Barracks with archers; 30+ tiles raise a Great Hall that repairs walls
• Enclose the Forge, Well or Shrine for stronger towers, repairs or an extra boon choice
• Catapults, warships and bomb-carrying goblin sappers blow real holes in your walls
• A red dragon arrives from round 3 and breathes fire along your most-walled rows
• Crawl over craters to rebuild breached walls
• 17 stacking boons across common, rare and epic
• Endless rounds that scale with the round number and the size of your castle

CONTROLS

• Keyboard and mouse: Arrow keys or WASD to steer; click to fire, or aim with the arrows and press Space; Esc or P pauses.
• Touch (phones and tablets): Swipe to steer (or use the on-screen d-pad); tap anywhere to fire.
• Gamepad: D-pad or left stick to steer or aim; A or RB to fire; Start pauses.
• The game is laid out for a portrait phone screen and letterboxes on desktop; press the fullscreen button for the biggest view. Your best score and top 5 runs are saved in your browser's storage, so play in the same browser to keep them.

Made with vbgnt