Description

"GoblinHaunt" is a game of intrigue, deduction, and a little bit of luck where you are moving through a forest, using magical GoblinHaunts to hunt down a band of goblin slavers and free the enslaved villagers before the goblins reach their caves, all the while trying to avoid a roving goblin warband and the goblin slavers' escort. This is a fully featured game with Instructions, Stats, Settings, Story, and About screens. It is configurable, allowing you to set your name, the size of the forest (10-25 squares), how many moves you get per turn (1-4), how many GoblinHaunts they get for attacking the goblin bands (1-9), how far the GoblinHaunts can attack (1-9 squares), how many Goblin Slavers have to be hunted down (1-3), how many Goblin Escorts there are (1-3), how many Goblin Warbands will be roaming the forest (1-3), and a special Hard Mode setting. Stats and Settings are both stored in persistent memory as well as the state of the last in-progress game. This allows a game to be interrupted at any time and resumed later at your convenience. All this and there are SIX different possible game endings!

GoblinHaunt is played in a gridded forest. The goblin slavers are placed in a random corner of the forest and make their way to some other random corner. You start out in the middle of an opposite edge of the forest and move North, South, West, and East a number of moves per turn. The goblin slavers move up to three moves per turn. They are not the most organized of travelers and their movement is somewhat random. The goblin escort always stays within one square of the slavers. The goblin warband starts near the slavers but their goal is to find you!

After you have moved, your Headband of Nearsightedness will let you know what is in the immediate vicinity. You may then release a GoblinHaunt or keep moving. GoblinHaunts can be released in any of the 8 directions: North, South, West, East, Northwest, Northeast, Southwest, or Southeast.

A game turn follows these steps:
1) Report from the King's Wizard (maybe).
2) You and the goblins move.
3) The Headband of Nearsightedness is used.
4) You may release a GoblinHaunt.
5) Repeat.

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Screenshots

Here are some screenshots from the Nokia Series 40 version of GoblinHaunt.

Splash Screen

GoblinHaunt Splash Screen

Game Animation

GoblinHaunt Game Animation

French Splash Screen

French GoblinHaunt Splash Screen

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GoblinHaunt User Documentation

After the initial splash screen you are presented with the main menu:

[Continue]	Will only appear when there is an interrupted game in progress.
New Game	Starts a new game to play.
Instructions	Explains how to play GoblinHaunt.
Stats	Game stats are kept for each person that plays the game.
Settings	Customize the game to make it easier or much more of a challenge.
Story	A short descriptive background setting for the game.
About	Displays game name, version number, and vendor (Everywhere Games).
Exit	Quits the game.

Use the movement menu to move North, South, East, or West. If you Stay Put then you give up all movement for that turn. If you decide to attack the goblins, use the menu to release a GoblinHaunt North, South, West, East, Northwest, Northeast, Southwest, or Southeast. If you get the goblin slavers you win! If not, well, try again, but be careful that you get the goblins before they get you!

There are a number of game settings to give GoblinHaunt maximum customizability. These game options are:

Setting Description Default

Player Name This is the default name for Stats. "Player"

Sounds Turn sounds off if they get to be too annoying or when it is necessary to be quiet and not disturb anyone. On

Forest Size 10-25. How large of a forest do you wish to explore? 10

Player Moves 1-4. For a tough game, move only 1 square per turn. Moving 4 squares per turn will get you to the goblins faster, but be careful that you don't trip over them! 2

# GoblinHaunts 1-9. How many attempts do you want for getting the goblins? It's best to set this to the number of goblin groups + 1. 4

GoblinHaunt Range 1-9. How many squares do the GoblinHaunts travel before they run out? 5

# Goblin Slavers 1-3. How many goblin slavers do you want to hunt down? You have to kill them all in order to win the game! 1

# Goblin Escorts 1-3. How many goblin escorts do you want? They will be assigned one per goblin slaver. If there are more escorts than slavers then some slavers will have more than one escort. If there are more slavers then some won't have escorts. 1

# Goblin Warbands 1-3. How many goblin warbands do you want chasing you through the forest? 1

Hard Mode Turning Hard Mode on turns off the coordinates so that all you know is the relative direction of the goblins to your current position. Off

Commands:

Clear Stats Erase all the game stats.

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Strategies & Hints

Play with the game options until you find game settings that make for a fun game that you enjoy playing.
My preferred method is to take two moves early on to get to the centre of the forest then only take one move per turn there-after to slowly approach the goblins and then blast 'em when they are within range!

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Credits

Art by Adam Howard.
Translation by Michael Seymour and Katie King.

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