Kingdoms and Castles Beta 3.042

Title: Kingdoms and Castles
Genre: Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Developer: Lion Shield, LLC
Publisher: Lion Shield, LLC
Release Date: Late July

About This Game
Kingdoms and Castles is a game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle.Your kingdom must survive a living and dangerous world. Do the viking raiders make off with your villagers? Or are they stopped, full of arrows, at the castle gates? Does a dragon torch your granary, your people dying of starvation in the winter, or are you able to turn the beast back? The success of your kingdom depends solely on your skill as a city and castle planner.Strategically layout your town to improve your peasants' happiness and to attract new residents. Tax them just enough to fund your castle. Make sure your peasants are fed in the winter and healed of plagues. Build churches to keep them from despair and taverns to keep them happy. You can even throw festivals if you've built a town square! Send out wood cutters to collect wood, set up stone quarries to build your castes, and farm the land efficiently so your town can grow and thrive.The new land you're settling is at risk of viking invasion. These raiders seek to kidnap and kill your peasants, steal your resources, and burn your town to the ground. Use a powerful castle building system where castles are constructed using blocks which can be placed anywhere. Towers and walls are dynamically created based on how you stack and arrange them. Archer towers and other weapon emplacements have longer range the higher their tower. Try different layouts to best protect your kingdom and express your glory as a king or queen.And it all takes place in a beautiful dynamic world with a stylized procedural cloud system and season cycle from summer to winter. A realistic tree growth algorithm simulates the forests. Depending on your needs, wood cutters can clear cut or responsibly manage your forests.

System Requirements
Minimum:OS: Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1 (64-bit)Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.0GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+, 2.5GHzMemory: 4 GB RAMGraphics: nVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 256mb or ATI Radeon HD 5670 256mb or Intel HD Graphics 4600DirectX: Version 11Storage: 1 GB available space
Recommended:OS: Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1 (64-bit)Processor: Intel Core i5-3470, 2.7GHz or AMD FX-6300, 3.2GhzMemory: 4 GB RAMGraphics: nVIDIA GeForce GTX 660, 1gb or AMD Radeon HD 7870, 1gbStorage: 1 GB available space