Your guild lives on your desktop

IdleGuild is a small idle guild-management prototype that turns your Windows desktop into the home of a growing fantasy adventurers’ guild.

New adventurers arrive looking for work. Recruit promising candidates, house them in your barracks, equip them, and assemble parties for procedurally generated quests. Your adventurers leave the guild, complete their assignments over time, and return with gold, experience, equipment, and stories of their progress.

The game runs as a transparent desktop overlay. Empty areas remain clickable, allowing the guild to share your screen with your usual desktop activity.

Current features

• Recruit randomly generated adventurers
• Manage barracks rooms and resting adventurers
• Assemble parties and send them on quests
• Match adventurer ranks, skills and attributes to quest requirements
• Earn gold, guild experience, adventurer experience and items
• Equip adventurers using drag-and-drop inventory controls
• Buy and sell equipment through the guild market
• Purchase upgrades for the guild
• Retire veteran adventurers and collect mementos
• Seamless automatic saving
• Transparent, click-through Windows desktop presentation

Prototype status

This is a small experimental prototype rather than a finished commercial release.

The primary gameplay loop is implemented, but balancing, content variety, presentation and compatibility still need further testing and refinement. Multi-monitor configurations, unusual display scaling, display reconnection and sleep/wake behaviour may not work consistently.

Feedback and bug reports are welcome.

Platform

Windows only

The current desktop-overlay implementation depends on Windows-specific functionality and Direct3D 11.

Controls

Mouse Clicking.

Saving

Progress is saved automatically. Save files are stored in Unity’s application data location on your computer.

AI and project disclosure

This prototype was created with AI-assisted code through OpenAI Codex and AI-generated artwork.

It is part of Cloud Architect, a personal rapid-prototyping project in which I challenge myself to turn game concepts I have wanted to explore into playable prototypes within highly constrained timeframes.

I am primarily a game designer. The purpose of these prototypes is to test my design ideas, systems, gameplay loops and ability to turn a concept into a coherent playable experience. They are not intended to present AI-generated code or artwork as a replacement for the work of professional programmers and artists, whose skills and crafts I deeply respect.

Should one of these prototypes gain enough interest to move toward full production, the intention would be to involve human programmers, artists and other developers in building it properly.

Feedback and support

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Credits

Design and development: Jose Martin aka Cloud Architect

Created with Unity.