Thursday, October 18, 2012

Castle Story Prototype Controls

Last night I was able to download the Castle Story Prototype and begin playing it a little bit. The first thing I noticed with the prototype, is that the controls aren't immediately intuitive. The camera mouse controls can be turned on by pressing "space" and you can select and control the yellow guys when you are not pressing "space." In order to mine, you need to first assign people to a mining group, then describe the zone that should be mined by drawing with the tools on the right. Setting up lumber teams can be done similarly. Finally, in order to construct things, you should assign brick men to the building team and lay out where the bricks should be placed using the blueprint tools. While using the building tool, you can hold right-click to bring up a menu or single right-click to rotate the currently selected block. Here's an annotated screenshot that will hopefully help you learn some of the controls.