Franchise Wars

Franchise Wars is a puzzle-strategy or puzzegy game developed by Tiny Warrior Games and Jolly Crouton Media Ltd. It was released for free on the Gameplay Quirkshop and Itch March 17th, 2019 and for a price on Steam April 15th, 2019. Created in a single month in game jam style, Franchise Wars was the brain child of Austin Huebner, Clayton Belcher, and Brandon Song.

Franchise Wars features 28 levels of isometric unit warfare. Players play as Frog Pop, a fast food franchise in a dystopian near future, bent on taking down its nemesis, Munch Point. Food trucks, crowds of fans, t-shirt launchers, and blimps number among the available units, each with its own movement, attack, and defense quirks. A variety of terrain types such as mountains and water add complexity to each puzzle.

Visually inspired by Game Boy Advance games like Advance Wars and Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, the game evokes nostalgia while still carving out a unique, simple gameplay mechanic.

Further theming of the game with other restaurants, additional animations, backstory, and terrain types for cities was cut to prevent scope creep in this intentionally brief project.

Fun Facts
Munch Point is a play on Match Point. Frog Pop is a play on Tiny Warrior Games' Frog Hop.