Liu Shan Maker -v1.07- -xian- [exclusive] -

(developed by Playmeow). There is no formal academic or technical white paper for this software, as it is a commercial indie game. Steam Community

5. Community Features

  • "The Maker system is unbalanced. Why should ignoring famine give me more points? And why does the '-Xian-' prefix allow Liu Shan to summon lightning? This isn’t history; it’s an acid trip." Liu Shan Maker -v1.07- -Xian-

    Length: The game is relatively short, with most players completing a run in about 3 hours. (developed by Playmeow)

    : Players choose two policies each month that alter key nation-state metrics: Military Power Livelihood "The Maker system is unbalanced

    National Administration: Each month, players must decide on two national policies and three developmental arrangements for Liu Shan.

    Liu Shan promised to try. She returned to the workshop and drew a different plan: not merely a copy of Yun, but a network of simple machines and memory levers that could reproduce rhythms and sounds by sampling small patterns. If she could encode a laugh as a rhythm of chimes and soft clicks, an automaton could remind a man of time and of the shape of memory itself.

    People in Xian began calling her the Maker — not out of ceremony, but because she made things that served life. That title sat easy on her shoulders. She started training apprentices: a careful girl who loved mechanisms but hated crowds, a young man who made music boxes, an immigrant with hands stained with dye who could upholster tiny seats for automatons. She taught them to watch the city, to ask not "How pretty?" but "How will this be used? How will this wear? Will it bring solace?" She made them practice winding springs until they could hear microscopic problems as clearly as a violin's note.

    Early Game (Month 1-3)

    • Do NOT appoint Jiang Wei as Regent. Keep him on a "chasing butterflies" assignment.
    • Spam the "Chestnut Festival" event (requires Maker LV2). It lowers Wei’s invasion desire by 40%.
    • Sell the imperial seal to Wu for three boatloads of crayfish — sounds absurd, but the -Xian- path converts crayfish into Maker energy.