A for Archery is a casual turn-based strategy game where you take command of a squad of medieval archers and must defeat another squad of medieval archers.

You can command your squad to take one of two actions - MARCH (move position) or FIRE (fire arrows in a direction).

Each turn you're able to give your squad two actions, and you can use the same action twice - so march and then fire, or fire and then march, or double march, or double fire. (or you can give them one action, or skip your turn)

Your squad is very bootlicking and will carry out your EXACT orders even if they've literally walked past your enemy and then shot away from them.

Give it a try! All feedback is greatly appreciated, not sure if I'll be doing any more work on this as it was just a quick personal project. Thanks for playing!

known issues:

  • the ai is very dumb
  • there are definitely situations where it's a total stalemate and borderline impossible for either team to win, but that is unlikely to be a problem given issue 1

Controls

  • Mostly mouse-based
  • Click the move you wanna do. Then aim or select a position to move, and click again to confirm. Right-click to cancel. 
  • If you make a mistake you can clear your move and start again with the clear button at the bottom of the screen.
  • Otherwise, click the confirm button to confirm and begin the move.
  • Also, you can move the mouse to the edge of the screen to move around, and use the scroll wheel to zoom
  • Escape to quit (Downloadable version only)
  • if you're having trouble running it e.g. if you're on a laptop without a dedicated GPU, then try holding tilde ~ and F1 to turn off post-processing, which should help a bit.

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A is for Archery Prototype (Windows 64-bit) 27 MB

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cool gameplay. would love to see more levels