Draw a route
Click and drag to give a unit a path through the contested map.
2008 · Browser strategy game
Kami
A territory game about movement, growth and encirclement, wrapped in a deliberately mythic history.
- Format
- Adobe Flash browser game
- Input
- Click and drag
- Goal
- Paint the map your colour
- Archive
- 2008 release
The idea
Simple gestures, emergent pressure
Kami asked players to paint the map in their colour. Dragging a unit drew the path it would follow; every move claimed territory and reshaped the contest.
Territory was both score and life support. Control more space and a unit grew until it produced another unit. Enemy stones could be defeated by cutting them off from their territory or surrounding them completely.
What shaped it
Claim territory
Moving units leave the world painted in the player’s colour.
Grow and multiply
Territory feeds units until they are large enough to create a new piece.
Starve or surround
Break an opponent’s connection to its land or encircle it outright.
