Paradise Fort

Paradise fort is a small downloadable game with much the same concept as the name implies. You build a random island using the generate button, and then you build a fort on it.

The game is a side-viewed 2d platformer type game, and despite it's unintuitive controls (cancel outside of a menu is confirm in a menu, and vice versa) is a fun little procedurally generated game. You start off with only an island, a guy and a pickaxe and you have to defend yourself as long as you can from seagulls, the military, and forces of nature.

Frankly, the seagulls are the worst danger.

The island itself is about twenty tiles wide by ten tall, though it varies, and and the center of it is usually hollow. The ground of the island is made of varying parts of trees, rocks, gold and... coal? These three resources, plus fish you can kill are all you have at your disposal to build a fortress that will defend you for as long as you can survive. It's harder than it sounds.

You use your limited resources to build a few cannons, floors and ladders. Then the milirary arrives, intent on blowing you up. I've never seen such angry balloons or helicopters. Each only takes a half-dozen shots, but they have a variety of weapons at their own disposal as opposed to your fixed 45 degree peashooters. You've got to plan your defences carefully, because if an enemy arrives from the side of the screen you're not expecting, they could knock down your entire fort before you know what hit you.

The contents of the game is procedural, and as you get more resources from blowing stuff up, the stronger type of enemies are more likely to appear, and you're more likely to take more damage.

There are other challenges, like meteors that you can't shoot down and are as bad as bombs, the rain that can flood your fortress and drown you if you're not careful, and the birds that can damage you, knock you about, and your automatic guns totally ignore, you have to kill them by hitting them with a thrown rock. Since the ground is water, they knock you in and you're not paying attention, you're toast.