The Governor Game

After playing a zillion games of Pirates! and even more visits to the governor, I wondered what it would be like to be the governor.

After picking a town of your choice, you have to make sure you won't get plundered by pirates by buying enough soldiers, cannon and even forts (no, you can't get sign them up for free in the tavern this time). Although don't buy too much so that those stupid pirates still think they can win but alas get sacked themselves! That pleases the king and gives you some money that you otherwise had to ask from your poor citizens. In case you get really rich you can even invest in an expedition to attack enemy cities. After a few good years don't forget to retire or move to a bigger town, but it won't be pinnaces and sloops anymore that come by.

The game was written in BASIC for the C128 only, but runs fine under VICE. The cinema style title font was stolen from Defender of the Crown. The main font from Jinks. The images were hand-drawn (or rather pixeled) by myself in the age where time was plentifull and the only option was using my self-developend smoothpaint to render textures like leaves, ripples, etc.

The Governor Game (finished Oct. 1988) was one of the very few games I wrote that was actually played and enjoyed by people beside myself :D