City Upon A Hill
A downloadable game
"We shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. we shall be made a story and a by-word through the world." - John Winthrop
City Upon A Hill is a table top collaborative city building game for any number of players. It requires a full deck of playing cards and note taking tools.
This is a game about building up a city and watching it fall. Work with your friends to populate a city full of life, commerce, legends, traditions, and secrets, and then bring the city to its knees through death, conflict, deficit, and crumbling infrastructure. Bring the city to a peak during its Boom era, and guide the city down to ruin in its Bust era, creating a setting rich in history and tragedy. Draw cards to decide the city's fate, working together to weave a tapestry that tells the story of your City Upon A Hill.
This game was made for the 2023 A Game By Its Cover game jam, an annual game jam about turning the fictional cartridge art of the My Famicase Exhibition into the real thing. The My Famicase Exhibition is an annual art show of fan made Nintendo Famicom cartridge designs for fictional games. City Upon A Hill was inspired by the case of the same name designed by Sumit Routh Roy Smoothy.
A Game By Its Cover - https://itch.io/jam/a-game-by-its-cover-2023
My Famicase Exhibition - famicase.com
Smoothy - www.instagram.com/smoothy.88
Font - Vampire by Joanna Vu
All art used in this game is from the public domain and acquired
through www.oldbookillustrations.com and www.fromoldbooks.org
A Game by Hunter J Allen for Itchy Boys Interactive
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The old book illustrations is a perfect aesthetic for this game. Do you have plans on a video perhaps showing how to play and what to expect? Would love to entice some friends into playing a game like this and a video of a playthrough would help.
That sounds enticing, I very well might