The One Will Rise

The One Will Rise is a game about controlling a cult that wants to overtake control of the city and summon the One.

Useful hints: You can look on the screenshots on the gamepage to find visual hints You do not have to read all of this before playing the game but if you have some problems you can find the solution here. We will also be glad to answer all your questions in the comments!

The game has two main parameters: Support of the Cult and Investigation
Cult support shows your progress in conquering the city, you win when it gets high enough
Investigation shows how much police know about the cult, when it reaches 100 you lose
The sum of the Cult Support and the Investigation can never be greater than 100 and if the sum is 100 you can not increase the Cult Support until you decrease the Investigation

The game loop consists of three parts: morning, day and evening
In the morning you get to send your leaders to the regions by pressing the region and than pressing the icon of the leader.
After assigning with the region, the leader will stay there till the next morning and give the bonuses to the events that happen there.
There are eight leaders and one of them is the main leader. Main leader gives more bonuses. The leaders can be:

Charismatic 1 - being the main leader, gives a bonus of to receiving "Cult Support" from all sources
Assigned to a district, gives a bonus of  to receiving "Cult Support" from this district
Charismatic 2 - being the main leader, gives a permanent modifier of to receiving presence in all districts
Assigned to a district, gives a permanent modifier  to receiving presence in this district
Occultist 1 - being the main leader,  increases the effectiveness of all rituals
Assigned to a district, gives a bonus to the effectiveness of the ritual in this district
Occultist 2 - being the main leader, doubles bonuses and penalties from victims in rituals
Assigned to a district, doubles bonuses and penalties from victims in a ritual in his district
Undercover 1 - being the main leader, finds one traitor every day
Assigned to a district, with a 50% chance can find traitor in this area
Undercover 2 - being the main leader, gives a stable decrease in the receipt of investigation points
Assigned to the area, reduces the receipt of investigation points in this area
Sneaky 1 - being the main leader, reduces the chance of negative events occurring during the day
Assigned to the area, reduces the chance of negative events occurring in this area
Sneaky 2 - being the main leader, reduces the chance of events occurring at night
Assigned to the area, with a 50% chance increases “Investigation”  and with a 50% chance increases the presence of the cult in the area

When all the leaders are assigned you may press a >> button on the bottom right to start the day
During the day on the map will spawn icons of the events. You will have five seconds to press it and it will open an event window.
Depending on your choice, you get different bonuses or penalties after resolving the event. If you fail to press the icon, you get a penalty
After some time the day will end and the evening will start. In the evening you can hold one ritual, but it must be in the region where you have a leader. To do so, press the region that you want and it will open the ritual window.
There a three types of rituals:

• “Ask for Guidance” — increases the presence in the region
• “Pleasing the One” — decreases the Investigation
• “Ask for Might” —  increases the Support of the Cult

Then you will get to choose the sacrifice. Remember:

• Traitors is a resource, you can see their amount on the top right
• If you sacrifice a local leader you will lose him/her forever but get big bonuses to progress
• If you sacrifice the Cult Leader you will get huge bonuses but lose him forever. After that a random local leader will take his place

After the ritual you may press a >> button to end the evening and the night, proceding to the next morning

We do hope you enjoy our game!

Credits to the author of the music:
Kara Square —Life Is But a Dream
The music in this game is unchanged and available under Public License. 

Aftertalk: We wanted to see how complicated a project can be that we can pull in a week and also to check our new team member. Sadly we had to abandon some of the mechanics. Some because of time, some because the new member didn't get along till the end. Anyway the game is done and we hope, you enjoy it! Also we don't have a browser version due to a mysterious bug that happens only there (Be damned Java Script...) 

May the One be with you!