Aegis of Athens
An isometric, character-driven city game: walk your Athenian out the gate to gather olives, grapes, and fish, haul them home to the workshops, sell the goods at the Agora — then spend the drachmas on walls, hoplites, and archers to survive ten Spartan sieges. Zero image assets; the whole world is drawn in code on a canvas.
How it plays
You are one Athenian on foot in a walled isometric city. Head south through the gate and the countryside opens up: olive groves, vineyards, and fishing docks with regenerating stock — walk up and your backpack fills. Haul it home and stand at the matching workshop (olives to the Press, grapes to the Winery, fish to the Granary) to deposit; each building processes its buffer over time into oil, wine, and food, and the finished goods pile up beside it as amphorae, wine jars, and loaves — a visual “come collect me” cue. Carry them to the Agora and sell for drachmas.
Then Sparta shows up. Waves march from the north and batter the city walls — which have hit points, damage tinting, and a HUD bar. Drachmas hire hoplites to hold the rampart line and archers to loose arrows from it, and you can fight too: your spear auto-strikes nearby Spartans, and getting caught outside during a raid can knock you back to the city and cost you half your load. Food isn’t just for selling — the army eats from the Acropolis larder, and an empty larder starves soldiers into deserting. Survive ten escalating waves to win.
An upgrade shop (bigger backpack, faster movement, faster workshops, stronger walls) and hireable porters — Gatherers that auto-harvest and Merchants that auto-sell — layer an idle-game automation loop on top, and a minimap tracks the city, nodes, porters, and Spartans. Progress saves to localStorage with autosave and resume-on-reload.
How it’s built
Plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript ES modules on a full-viewport canvas — no engine, no bundler, and no image assets at all: the isometric projection, diamond tile ground, Greek temples (stepped stylobates, fluted columns, terracotta gabled roofs), layered resource nodes, and the character are all drawn in code by a depth-sorted renderer. Input is a floating touch joystick or WASD; sound is synthesized with the Web Audio API.
It’s also a case study in building in phases: five planned phases (isometric engine and traversal → gather and carry → make and sell → siege → progression and polish), each shipped playable, with the previous version of the game kept live at the repo root until v2 reached feature parity.
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