letownbuilder

A Town building simulator

Ever played an adictive online game where you build your kingdom or town and realized that it was taking too long to do anything unless you spent real money? LeTownbuilder allows you to scrach that "building and managing" itch while not burdening you with microtransations, or massive hardware requirements.

Your town begins in a vacant, unsettled area. Your start location is randomized and there are different possible biomes, so no 2 times you play are the same. You start with 5 villagers. Start by collecting resources and building houses and specialized buildings. Villagers have moods, and can become happy or angry based many factors. Keep them fed, and housed. Also make sure that there is a bonfire at night, or they will get cold. You can increase happiness by always having food at lunchtime and by adding other advanced upgrades to your village(TBD)

Current villager types

• normal,peasant - Your average villager comes in male female, or child verieties. They are the average hard working villager with no bonus or penalty.

• child - The future of the settlement relies on these youngsters. They dont work, and are an extra mouth to feed.

• bandits - Bandits are a mischivious breed who will attempt to steal food at lunchtime and other items(tbd) They currently have no advantage but may later have advantages in hunting or assasinating unloved mayors.

• holymen - These preachers are not "affected" by general village unrest. They don't particularly like dark elves. They're firey sermons can provide a daily bonus to the general village morale. However if the village morale drops too low, their sermons may have the opposite effect.

• werewolves - werewolves look like regular citizens until the sun goes down. They then become vicious hunters and can kill villagers! there is currenly no solution to handling werewolves, but (tbd) sheriff's will soon be able to deal with them. Dark elves will also be able to handle them in a limited scope

• dark elves - the often misunderstood dark elf provides a massive bonus to research. Having a dark elf, means free research without a school, and also allows you to research at a faster speed. However(tbd) dark elves are pyromaniacs and will randomly start fires. They are also (TBD) the chief suspect besides the bandit who is responsible for the mayors untimely death.

• ghosts - ghosts are the departed who may be seen at night, if not burried in a graveyard...

Current villager roles

• Mayor - Mayors are the source to blame for all things aray in your village. Often villagers will proclaim themselves to be mayor at the founding of your village. If this does not occour, you can later elect one after researching civics.
• Farmer - farmers are responsible for planting and caring for farm plots
• Builder - Builders build.
• Sheriff - The sheriff deals with riff/raff.
• Fisherman - Professional food gatherer if there is a body of water nearby.
• (tbd) Firefighter - Will provide a way to fight wildfires/spreading fires...

Research types

Agriculture - the upgrading of farms and providing various new farms.

• Level 1 Garden Fencing. Decrease the chance of crows stealing crops.
• Level 2 (tbd) Tomato farms. Adding food variety increases villager happiness.
• Level 3 (tbd) Chicken farms. Add pultry to your diet.
• Level 4 (tbd) Cooking. Cook your food to reduce the risk of food contamination.
• Level 5 (tbd) Treefarms. Get fruit.
• Level 6 (tbd) Fishfarms. Make use out of all those holes you dug.

Economy - the establishment of tarde and markets

• Level 1 Trade Post. (Tbd) will be able to accept merchants.
• Level 2 (tbd) Traders. Can send out traders to other towns.
• Level 3 (tbd) Riverboating (tbd - if no water just better prices)
• Level 4 (tbd) Trade treaties. You can now garentee goods and services for better prices.
• Level 5 (tbd) Currency. You can now buy and sell with coin.
• Level 6 (tbd) Banks. Reposses your homes, knowing that your economy will improve in the long run?
• Level 7 (tbd) Shipping. Mass moving of product.
• Level 8 (tbd)

Security - With a growing number of dangers being added to the game, security will play a larger role in keeping your town safe

• Level 1 Sheriff's Office/sheriff You can now catch food thieves.
• Level 2 (tbd) militia. The Sheriff will be able to call on the militia for emergancies.
• Level 3 (tbd) hunters. cull the local wildlife and get food for doing it.
• Level 4 (tbd) Palasade - build walls around your town.
• Level 5 (tbd) Deputies - Reduce the need for militia with full time sub-sheriffs.
• Level 6 (tbd) Rangers - Bane of werewolves, and bandits.
• Level 7 (tbd) Punishments - Make an example of evildoers.(decrease unrest)

Industry - Industry allows you to build more advanced building which produce more.

• Level 1 fishermans hut - Now provides a fresh catch daily without manual fishing.
• Level 2 (tbd) inns - inns/innkeepers provide extra town stability by allowing tourism and family/friends.
• Level 3 (tbd) hospital - doctors heal the sick...sometimes.
• Level 4 (tbd) Improved Mining. You now can mine metals and precious metals.
• Level 5 (tbd) Workshops. Make things to export!
• Level 6 (tbd) Alchemist. Make medicinces, perfumes and poisons!
• Level 7 (tbd) Smelting. Make metal!

Civics - Civics will allow you to manage a town more effectivly by making the town more stable. Things like town halls, council, city planning, and more are planned for the civics line of research.

• Level 1 (tbd) Mayor's monument. A symbol of the mayers grandure, or pomposity? It ups the happiness of the town, yet is the first to get defaced if things go bad.
• Level 2 (tbd) Town Hall.
• Level 3 (tbd) Free elections. Finally choose your own mayor!
• Level 4 (tbd) Town council. Someone else makes the smaller decisions and gives the mayor culpible denyability.
• Level 5 (tbd) Propaganda! When the going gets bad, the bad start lying...
• Level 6 (tbd) Palace. The mayor gets his own house finally!
• Level 7 (tbd) Upper class. Nobles; another annoying person to bow to.

Research Combos (tbd)

• Agriculture(1), Security(1) (tbd) Scarecrow - Further reduce bird raids.
• Civics(2) Security(2) Militia House, a permanent place for your citizen army, reduces unrest and allows for a longer militia muster time.
• Industry(1) Economy(3) Fisherboats! Catch more fish out in the middle of a lake.
• Agriculture(4) Economy(5) Restaurants. Eat out in style. Comfort food for massive unrest reduction.
• Agriculture(1) Industry(1) Civics(1) Waterforming. Fill holes with water.

Wildlife types (tbd) wildlife will provide wild animales which can be hunted or, in some cases WILL HUNT YOU!

rabbit - little vermin that taste good if cooked properly(tbd) (tbd rabid rabits) can bite villagers and give you rabbies! wild donkey - pack animals, that dont pack because they are wild.(tbd animal training?)

Basic building types

• House - houses are needed for providing villagers with homes. Only one house is needed per family
• Barn - barns store food. They keep from having too many food icons on the screen. More importantly they provide for long term food storage. Food tends to rot after a while without a barn.
• Mine - Mines provide a daily allotment of stone without digging holes all over the landscape. (tbd) they will also later provide metals and precious metals.
• School - Schools allow a town to start reseaching. (tbd) they will also later provide children with something to do during the daytime.

Advanced building types

• Trade post - trade posts will allow merchants to trade in your town (TBD merchants)
• Sheriff's Office - A sheriff's office will allow you to(TBD) assign a sheriff who will be responsible for town security. Sheriff's have a chance of catching bandits stealing food, dark elves starting fires and werewolf rampages. The chance of preventing these catastrophes increases with each level of security.
• Fisherman's hut - a fishermans hut will assign a villager to be a dedicated fisherman. The hut must be built near water and provides a number of fish per day.
• TODO: Drawn/not coded, militia house
• TODO: Drawn/not coded, smelter - smelted. FAQ's ================================= Q. How do I get letownbuilder working on my andriod? A. There are a few things that you need to do to get letwon builder installed on your tablet.

  1. Download the love apk at

  2. love2d source port to android - love-native-android Port of the Love2D source to android using ndk.

     Repository: https://github.com/hagish/love-native-android

     Download: http://www.brightidea.eu/games/love-native-android.apk

  3. Install it (your andriod must be able to install non market apps)

  4. Get a copy of the code, zip it up, and name it a letownbuilder.love

  5. play it through the app!

  6. (not currently there is a scrolling bug in the andriod version?

Q. Feature X appears to be missing. A. If you have any ideas please feel free to email me at jobs@cooperlabs.net

Q. I found a lua script error! A. Eeek! PLEASE email me imediatly at jobs@cooperlabs.net, include error and line number.