How to play:

1. Create your first nation by selecting a border color and typing up a name

2. Draw the borders of your new nation onto the map, while paying attention to how much drawing power you have left at the top

3. Once out of drawing power, click a nation to open the nation inspector, and hit the select button.

4. Draw a new card on the top right, which will allow you to alter the selected nation further

5. Repeat

Card Types:

1. EXPAND: There are three expand card types, which are small, medium and large expand, and they allow you to grow the borders of your selected nation. 

NOTE: Expanding into unclaimed territory will be much cheaper than trying to expand into the land of other nations

2. SPLIT: There are two split card types, which are the regular split and the small split, and both will cause you to carve out a new nation out of a portion of whatever nation you selected bfore drawing the card

3.UNION: The union card allows your selected nation to fully annex another nation as if part of a royal union or similar treaty

4. NEW NATION: The new nation card will allow you to create a new nation just as you did at the start of the game, which will allow you to make a whole new Origin Group

Map Modes:

Political Mode: This mode allows players to see the borders of all nations on the map

Origin Mode: This mode allows players to see the original nation each nation split off from. Think of it as a sort of culture group map. NOTE: A nation's origin can also be seen in its nation inspector

What's Next?

Doodle Empires is still early in development, and there is a lot I still want to add and expand on

Future mechanics and updates I'd like to add include:

- Leaders with traits that will affect their nation's future

- Founding and adopting religions

- Creating tribes, which can migrate and eventually settle

- Disaster cards that will cause nations to lose land to the wilderness

- Historical Ages cards, which will make certain cards more common during a set period of time

- A lot of quality of life additions such as, map sizes, brush size, list of dead nations, UI design, music/sound, etc.

Much like the nations in Doodle Empires, this list is subject to grow and change over time as I continue development, but should give you an idea of what I hope to build here.