It's a time of war.

　　All the young people are gone away to fight. Among the elders left in the village, only Hisato is willing to stand guard at the gate. In this time of unrest, many people are traveling, homeless, or looking for work. Hisato must decide who to permit and who to refuse. There is only one month before the snows come. The village must store up enough food to last the winter, but will Hisato last another night?

　　In this light Role Playing adventure, guide Hisato through each night guarding the gate. Every stranger admitted to the village joins the community- for good or ill. The fate of Hisato and the village is up to YOU!

　　Features

　　Duels: Turn-based combat where actions are resolved simultaneously!Investigation: Interview and search strangers, then decide their fate!Village Simulation: A prosperous village can help Hisato become strong!Killer Soundtrack [bandcamp]: Epic Chiptunes in classic Gameboy style! Amazing Pixels: 4 Colors in Gameboy resolution!

　　System Specs

　　Built and Tested on: Windows 10

　　Available RAM: 3MB

　　Input Device: Keyboard

　　Controls

　　Arrows: Navigate menu

　　Enter/Return: Start Game and Confirm menu selections

　　Technical Info

　　This game uses a proprietary software rendering engine called ElderBoy. It runs natively on a single thread, and does not make use of hardware graphics acceleration. A single GDI call is used to display the rendering buffer, so all compatible versions of Windows should be able to run this executable, regardless of hardware.

　　Third-Party Technologies

　　miniaudio [website]: A single file audio playback and capture library.

　　Developers

　　Rhoq [twitter]: Lead Designer, Programming and Art

　　BinarySolo [twitter]: Design and Programming

　　Audio

　　AJ Booker [twitter]: Music and SFX

　　Cover Art

　　Marcel Laurin [twitter]

　　Guest Artists

　　DaWeed [twitter]: ThiefKingW [twitter]: Bandit, Farmer, SamuraiPolyducks [twitter]: HerbalistRetroshark [twitter]: Fisherman Development & Release

　　This game is currently in development. It is planned to release in 2021 here on this page and on Steam.