THEODOLITE
A free browser game from Core Systems Asset Factory. Genre: Simulation, Strategy. Free.
THEODOLITE is a free browser game, free to play in the browser.
Map a county by sight, by angle and by error. THEODOLITE is a free survey incremental that plays in your browser. The county exists only as a hearsay sketch in pencil: hills said to be there, woods that may be bigger than drawn, towns with question marks after their names. Two trig stations stand at the ends of a measured baseline. Everything else you have to fix for yourself.
The one rule A station is fixed once its sights to two fixed stations are read. It inherits the worse error of the pair, plus a little for every cell of sight, times the shape of the triangle: a right angle at the new station fixes it well, a thin sliver fixes it badly. Chain station after station away from the baseline and the error piles up. Where you put the next station decides how well the county is known.
Three things that pull against each other The network. Two stations share a sightline only if the line between them clears the hills and the woods. Hover the map to see what a station would see: green where it sees, orange where the ground is in the way, and the error it would be fixed at before you spend a coin.
AI disclosure, as the store page states it: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text
Free · Get it on itch.io. Files, screenshots and the full description are on the store page.