A War of a Madman's Making
NOTE: Press "E" on the keyboard to access encyclopaedia on browser edition.
Story
You are a citizen who has been mysteriously called up to serve as Field Marshal of the Great Leader's army.
Through a combination of resource management, political maneuvering, and strategic military planning, you must survive the impending war - and the purges and assassinations that will come along with it.
You have the freedom to be ruthless in your methods, but doing so too freely could have consequences - particularly if you face a tribunal for crimes against humanity. However, mismanage your resources pursuing nobler causes, and you'll find a similar fate at the hands of your beloved Great Leader.
Rein in the disaster, protect your family, and survive!
Features
- ~70k word story with 5 major endings.
- Resource management. Maintain a military budget, popularity with the Leader's cabinet, and favor with the Great Leader himself.
- Choose your allies and enemies. Scheme amongst the Leader's staff or even against the Leader himself.
- Manipulate your reports when you must give bad news to the Great Leader, but be careful not to push your luck.
- Retro-style soundtrack by Borealis (Shirli Ainsworth) full of tense overtures and bombastic battle themes.
- An encyclopaedia filled with lore and character details - including nuggets that an astute player will find useful.
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Content warning: This game features descriptions of war, death, gun violence, and drug/alcohol abuse. There are no graphic images in this game.
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Development log
- A War of a Madman's Making: 1.1 releaseJun 25, 2024
- A War of a Madman's Making 1.0 releaseMar 08, 2024
- Beta 0.5 - Valkyrie EndingsNov 10, 2023
- Beta 0.4.8 - Story fixesJul 23, 2023
- Beta 0.4.7 - Difficulty & QOLJun 02, 2023
- Beta 0.4.4.6 - Typo fixes, Steam achievement fixesApr 18, 2023
Comments
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Will there be a Android version? I dont know if it works on it.
Sorry, no plans at this point to make an Android version.
you can use joi play and install the renpy addon to play on mobile if you want.
Thanks for the info!
oh also what does "major endings" mean?
"Major endings" means story endings, i.e. endings you get by completing the story rather than losing favor and getting murdered/imprisoned
oh so you don't mean like 5 endings with different variations, that is a relief for the completionist in me
gawd fucking damnit I was having a blast playing this game, fucking amazing game btw, like this is good shit, I always love a political thriller and/or political and/or military strategy game, and always wanted more in VN form, sadly the page reloaded when I was playing it in browser and all the saves are gone, something that has never happened to me for any other game renpy I've been playing in browser, on google chrome btw, but yeah, that asides, fucking love this, I shall download and return to playing it soon
Edit: nevermind there is no mac version according to the symbols, kill me
Hey, glad to hear you're enjoying it, and sorry you lost your progress! Not sure why that happened. Did you manually save at any point in your playthrough, or were you relying on autosave?
If you're interested, I could help you create a Mac-compatible executable -- I just don't have a Mac to create it myself. Let me know!
I made plenty of manual saves, quicksaves too, all were gone including autosaves, when I went to run the game again after to see what messages popped up in the actually renpy loading screen I now see it says something about "may not save properly" which it saved stuff until the page reloaded so I guess that means like with the browser cache
And y'know if that wouldn't entail too much I would be down to try and do that if you could outline what that would entail
RenPy can compile a Mac version without you needing a Mac
Yeah, but in the past, whenever I've done that it's never actually run on people's Mac computers. I'll give it another shot, though
Hey, sorry for the late reply here. I tried creating and uploading a Mac version. I've had issues with creating Mac versions in the past, so this might not work. But if you get the chance, please give it a shot and let me know!
Thanks!
terribly sorry for my late reply, will give it a shot
I spent hours playing this game yesterday, I love the aesthetic and the game play and hope to continue playing for a while!
Thank you so much! I appreciate the kind words :D
just so you know, i cannot access the encyclopedia on the browser version because its under another button.
You should be able to press "E" on the keyboard to access it in the browser version :D
thanks!
Remain calm. Great Leader endures. The GAC lives. Gutan shall endure. There is much to be done.
I'm enjoying the ride so far, even though I got killed due to
***SPOILERS***
my own inability to commit lol. My MC was a poor second class citizen, who didn't drink at all (I found it amusing how MC could refuse and still have to drink, gave me a chuckle every time) I leaned more towards Harald, but in the end I was too non-aligned, so I was killed lol And even when I threw my lot in with Harald, killed Chorsa, and tried to overthrow the government, I still died oof To be honest I don't know how this ends well for the MC--even if he manages to survive, he'll be shredded mentally, and maybe even physically if the Dengizichens get their hands on him :p
The game was pretty enjoyable to play!! I like the writing, and the level of suspense. I brought my younger daughter Yamie to the ball, and almost had a heart attack when she spoke up. I'm loving the characters so far; Harald the drunk, Jor the weasel and Valen the slimeball, but especially Artur Madrisky! He and the MC ended up being friends, and I never threw him under the bus once. I would love to see some Artur-specific endings!!
The colored names provided a nice pop of color. I always love some color-coding, but in the case of this art style, I don't know how it would work, cause everything has that yellowed out filter over it, like the radiation settling into the land.
But at any rate, I look forward to the full version and to not dying by the big boss man's hands XDDD
Looks interesting. Do you think you'll ever have a Mac build?
Hi, if you're familiar with Ren'Py engine I can send you the files you need to create a Mac build. Unfortunately I don't have access to a Mac machine, so I can't do it myself!
Let me know and I'll gladly send over the files and some instructions if needed.
Thank you so much for this kind review! It means a lot to me that you enjoyed the game so much.
Progress has been slow, but I'm working on an update which will expand and add new endings, so I can definitely look into adding an extra ending that includes Artur more heavily! Especially if the player picked Helthien, since I agree that's a great opportunity for an alternate or "hidden" ending if you play your cards right.
Thanks again for your feedback and stay tuned for more updates!
Has a really good atmosphere also loved the mechanics
Can we have an affair with Artur plssss
It's not working for Mac (at least for me). It results in a folder that has the game inside of it except the game won't launch
Thanks for the heads up! I'll look into this and let you know once I've resolved the issue.
Hello! I've uploaded a new Mac version of the latest build. Please let me know if you have any issues running it!