By Encabulated Games, made for the Summer Flowjam 2025
Jackson "Sup3r87" Cartwright - Programming, Art (background, cover), Game design, Production.
Logan Kinoshita - Sound Effects & Music.
Dan - Narrative Design & Game Design.
Finn "Huckleberry" Elliott - Art (Foreground, characters), Programming.
Jay "Extrez" Noskcaj - Character Art.
Establish a colony on a far-off waterworld in galactic nowhere and manage your own people, politics and more in Tidal Reign! Make friends or enemies, and develop your colony into your own. Will you appeal to the Palladic faith and build a garden? Will you embrace the industrialists and built tech-wonders? Will you tolerate Enryon's presence, or trade on the black market? The choice is yours!!
Tidal Reign, similar to some of our other recent titles, was overscoped and I underestimated the amount of programming that had to be done for the game to be functional. However, we still managed to make it out the other side and deliver a complete game. Yippie!!
After the jam we will be adding the rest of Dan's narrative work (only 1/2 of the encounters you can run into are present ingame!), the rest of the characters on the roster, the background details we couldn't get to, fixing up any bugs, balancing the game, and adding some new content we couldn't get to. The max colony size you can hit is 7! Good luck!
Recryptech for immense help and support with the recryptext bundle during the jam
Overma Games for immense help with specific text-based bundles and more technical support during the jam
Feel free to send screenshots of your colony to the forum post!