Earlier versions of the game followed a more traditional turn-based strategy model where unit growth was connected to a weekly cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That system is gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Age of Failon is now built around a persistent journey through 357 campaign maps<\/strong>, where the actions you complete and the rewards you discover directly contribute to the long-term development of your hero, army and castle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The campaign is designed as one continuous progression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Your hero isn’t created for a single isolated scenario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You create your hero, choose a race and begin a journey that continues across the entire campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Your hero develops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Your castle develops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Your army grows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n New units, buildings, skills and spells gradually become available as you progress further into the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When one map ends, that progression continues into the next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This required a very different economy from the one used in earlier versions of Age of Failon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the systems I wanted to move away from was traditional weekly unit growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It works well for a strategy game built around individual scenarios, but Age of Failon is structured differently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With hundreds of connected maps and persistent progression, I needed a system that could control how quickly the player’s army and economy grow across the entire campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The solution became the new Card system<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Despite the name, Age of Failon is not becoming a card game or deckbuilder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cards are progression rewards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They represent things the player has earned and can subsequently use to develop their character, army or castle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Unit Cards determine how many units you can obtain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, during a map you might receive:<\/p>\n\n\n\n +5 Archer Cards<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Those cards increase the number of Archers available to your army, but the units still need to be recruited through your castle and paid for using resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This creates two connected parts of the economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cards determine what you have unlocked and how much you can obtain<\/strong>, while resources determine what you can currently afford<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Because cards persist, rewards collected throughout the campaign continue to matter on future maps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Castle development follows a similar philosophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Instead of being able to freely construct everything as soon as you have enough resources, the player can earn Building Points<\/strong> during progression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Building or upgrading structures consumes these points in addition to the required resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This allows castle development to remain connected to campaign progression instead of being driven entirely by resource accumulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And because the castle persists between maps, every upgrade contributes to the long-term development of your kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The same progression philosophy extends beyond units and buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Maps can provide rewards that contribute to several parts of your character:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Instead of every system progressing independently, rewards from exploration and objectives feed into the same persistent progression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The world map therefore isn’t something you simply need to cross before returning to the castle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What you accomplish on the map determines how your character develops.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The campaign is also divided into four Ages<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Your castle begins in Age I and gradually develops as its buildings are upgraded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Reaching later Ages unlocks access to increasingly powerful units and new stages of progression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Units themselves evolve alongside this system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A unit you use early in the campaign doesn’t represent the final version of that unit line. As your civilization advances, new forms become available and the army progresses with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With six playable races and progression across four Ages, the full game contains 456 units<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The goal is to make progression continue far beyond the opening hours rather than allowing the player to reach the majority of the game’s content early in the campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 357 maps may sound like a strange number, but Age of Failon isn’t designed around hundreds of identical standalone scenarios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The maps form the structure through which the campaign, economy, difficulty and story progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Early maps introduce the game’s systems and begin building the player’s army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Later maps can assume that the player has developed their hero, castle, spells, skills and a much larger selection of units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Because progression persists between them, each map becomes another step in the development of the same character and army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It also means the economy has to remain balanced over hundreds of maps rather than only a single scenario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A large part of the development over the past months has therefore been spent building systems that can predict and control progression far into the campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’ll talk more about that technical side in a future devlog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Changing progression also changed the purpose of individual maps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If rewards are tied to what the player accomplishes, maps need to provide meaningful goals rather than simply placing two competing heroes into the same world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This led to another major system: Map Objectives<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Players can be asked to hunt specific enemies, capture or defeat guarded locations, collect resources, develop their castle or face enemy heroes that appear as part of the scenario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Objectives can also interact with the story and dynamically change what happens on the map.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And that is where we’ll continue next time:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Devlog #6 \u2013 Objectives: Changing How Age of Failon Maps Are Played.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Devlog #5 \u2013 357 Maps and a New Progression System The previous devlogs focused on some of the most visible changes to Age of Failon: the redesigned world and the completely new user interface. This time, I want to talk about something much bigger. The core progression system of Age of Failon has been rebuilt.… ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.product4you.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-05-12-122718-1024x579.png\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nOne Hero. One Army. 357 Maps.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Replacing Weekly Growth<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Unit Cards<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nBuilding Points<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nHero, Skills and Spells<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nProgression Across Four Ages<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nWhy 357 Maps?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Maps Are No Longer Just Battlefields<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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