The larger cycles of the game are tied to the seasons, and this is what I'll talk about in today’s development blog on resource pacing.

Nocked’s second pillar of revised gameplay is its regional mechanics. While the immediate focus of the story is on Robin and his relationships, those actions have repercussions on the larger world outside of Sherwood Forest, and I needed a way to show it; the challenge lay in giving the player some control over those repercussions.

Granular resources are the immediate, tangible gratification; rewards you receive for taking specific actions, and that can be spent for immediate effect. 

Fiction informs function — to paraphrase Keith Stetson in his excellent game, Seco Creek Vigilance Committee — was the guiding principle when I decided to raze Nocked’s existing game structures for the desktop release, salvage the good, and rebuild the rest from the ground up.