Accidental Overlord
Accidental Overlord is a browser game about a farmer who wanted turnips and quiet, then somehow became the local dungeon problem.
The current build is a playable greybox prototype. You dig an isometric dungeon out of rock, build rooms, place rats and traps, and try to survive the heroes who have heard there is treasure in the cellar. The treasure is, of course, the Turnip Box Heart. A misunderstanding with consequences.
What works now
The prototype already has the main loop: dig, prepare, start a wave, watch the intruders make bad choices, repair the mess, and do it again.
There are treasury rooms, lairs, guard zones, spike traps, rats, goblins, thieves, scouts, fighters, rumor-scaled waves, escape routes, and a tested five-wave run with win and loss states. It also has a title card, simple generated sounds, and the first pass at a low-poly toybox look.
It is still greybox work. That is fine. The useful test is already there: does the dungeon layout matter before the art is finished? Chokepoints, room placement, trap rearming, and creature capacity all push the game in that direction.
Why I like the shape
Most tower-defense games give you a path and ask where the towers go.
This one asks where the path should exist at all.
That makes the dungeon the main tool. A corridor is a weapon. A room is an economic decision. A badly placed treasury is an invitation to get robbed by someone with a sword and too much confidence.
The tone helps: rural absurdity instead of dark fantasy. A root cellar slowly becomes a fortress because everyone keeps making the same mistake.
Stack
Phaser 3, TypeScript, and Vite. Client-side only for now.
See also: Projects, Web Games Arcade, Void Crawler, Things