Brookwood: Pocket Tactics
Inspired by Redwall, WarCraft, and the tactics genre, Brookwood: Pocket Tactics is a tiny tactics game for the Game Boy Color. Built with the Forgotten Engine by nowheresoft, (and GB Studio), it is a game about managing your troops in a battle of medival animals. Play as one of four factions (the Khalifa of Rodents, the Sultanate of Cats, the Eashir of Birds, and the Hashd'n of Lizards) in an Islamic-inspired world.
Pre-orders for the physical run are open now! Published by Bitmap Soft, you can now own a cartridge of Brookwood to play on your Gameboy. Each copy includes the following:
- Custom box
- Sticker sheet
- GB & GBC compatible cartridge
- Sticker sheet
Brookwood was originally prototyped for the GB Studio Game Jam 2021, and you can play that janky, buggy demo still.
Instructions:
Click on a unit with 'A' to move them. Click 'Fight' to engage the enemy, or press 'B' to cancel. Press 'Start' or 'B' to end the turn before both player units have moved. Press 'Select' to check your current HP.
During the enemy turn, enemy units will target the nearest player unit and attack if within range.
Download
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Development log
- Pre-orders for physical copy!Mar 20, 2024
- Minor bug fixesAug 07, 2023
- Beta release!Feb 03, 2023
- Halfway pointNov 30, 2022
- More story chaptersSep 13, 2022
- Major shiftJul 07, 2022
- Current UpdatesFeb 12, 2022
- Now in active development!Jan 02, 2022
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Got the physical release from the pre- release. Game play is very fun and the story is engaging. Cute sprites and good music. Encountered bug on first battle of chapter 4 sprites won't load or go invisible. Select button for tutorial won't work. Great packaging and stickers though, print quality is very good on the booklet. I'm still very happy to have it as a collectable. hopefully the rom will run well on my anbernic.
Thanks for letting me know! I'll have to check that out to fix the bug
This is super cute, and I loooooved Redwall as a kid! Will it be possible to buy a rom at some point? I don't have a Gameboy anymore, but I'd love to play this on my Retroid
Yes, I'm pretty sure once the pre-orders are done they'll start selling the ROM as well.
Cause u arent on X:
I put ur game to my most wanted to play list of 2024 :)
Oh wow! Thank you so much! I don't speak German but there were English subtitles. Great video though
Thank u :) yes I added subtitles in different languages :) and thanks for following on Twitter :) I'm excited for ur game!
Out of curiousity was this primarily a plugin or evented in gb studio?
It's all events, a crazy series, but it works.
cool game!
Thanks so much! I love your pixel art tutorials!
This is definitely super cool, I love the setting. It’s not super fun right now, and when I started mashing on the enemy turn phase I think I selected an enemy unit and got stuck. It lacks a lot of stuff in these kinds of games (cancel movement for example), but it’s super cool as a proof of concept.
I hope to see more of this!
Oh wow, this is really quite cool! I agree that the coding is quite impressive. Going to share this with link some of my friends ^__^
this is extremely impressive
I would like you to turn this into a full game. It was a little tedious to get to where the enemies were and it was a bit confusing at first, but this has a ton of promise and I’m super impressed by the graphics, the world, and especially the coding
This game is really cool, and very well made! I wish it had multiplayer tho! Let's hope they make it possible in the future!
Yeah, I had a fantasy about doing link cable vs mode. We'll see if they ever implement that
I think it might come in gbs 3. That would be perfect for this game!
I think you should add multiplayer where you trade the gameboy too. It would be just as fun