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I. Facts and description
Powder & Crown at a glance
Facts
- Title
- Powder & Crown (English and all other languages)Proch i Korona (Polish)
- Genre
- Real-time strategy (RTS) in isometric view. Alternate history, the Commonwealth in 1764.
- Developer
- Mikołaj Ślęzak Brickweavers, a solo studio (about the creator)
- Based in
- Poland
- Platforms and dates
- Demo in the browser: available now, free, at https://powderandcrown.com/play/ Android: 2026 iOS: 2027 PC and Mac (Steam): 2027 Dates are approximate.
- Pricing model (planned)
- Phones: a free app with the tutorial and skirmishes; the full game is a single purchase (US$3.99 / €3.99 / £3.99 / PLN 14.99), with no ads and no subscription Steam: US$14.99 with Act I of the campaign; Acts II–IV as expansions
- Languages
- Polish and English; German and Spanish in the browser demo
- Nations
- 6 to choose from: Crimson Coalition, Siberian Diktat, Brandenburg Protectorate, Meissen March, Alpine Archduchy and Crescent Porte. The Magnate Familia appears as an opponent.
- Army
- More than 30 unit types, from winged hussars to the Turkish balyemez; a superweapon for every nation
- Campaign
- Act I: 7 missions with Colonel Hordyński and his retinue. 13 cutscenes featuring Hetman Branicki, Prince Radziwiłł and Prince Xavier, plus a prologue and an epilogue told through period paintings, voiced in Polish and English. Acts II–IV are planned.
- Maps
- 7 city maps of 1764 (Warsaw, Left-bank Warsaw, Kraków, Dresden, Kamieniec Podolski, Nesvizh, Białystok) and random battlefields: 4 terrain types, 4 regions, 4 seasons
- Modes
- Skirmish, Hold the Field, Pitched Battle and Campaign, against the computer on three difficulty levels. Two-player mode over Wi-Fi, with no server; online play with a room code is in testing.
- History
- The in-game Chronicle: more than 100 entries on troops, weapons, people and places, with sources
- Art and sound
- Characters rendered from 3D models in Blender, in 8 directions. 18th-century music (Bach, Handel, Telemann, Haydn, Mozart and others), arranged in code. Battle cries in the armies’ own languages.
- Engine
- Custom-built in JavaScript on canvas; on Android and iOS via Capacitor
- AI tools
- Powder & Crown is made by one person with the help of AI tools: character, unit and narrator voices and some cutscene sounds were made with ElevenLabs, translations with the help of Claude, and the code and 3D model scripts with an AI coding assistant. There is no AI-generated imagery in the game: characters and buildings are rendered from Blender models or drawn in code, and the paintings in the prologue and epilogue and the character portraits are public-domain works of the period.
- Requirements (Android)
- Android 7.0 or later with an up-to-date WebView (88+). Works offline.
- Requirements (browser demo)
- An up-to-date Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari, on a computer or a phone. About 20 MB to download before the first battle.
- Website
- https://powderandcrown.com
- Press contact
- contact@powderandcrown.com
Description
In one sentence
Powder & Crown is a real-time strategy game about a war for the Polish crown in 1764: pitch your camp, form your lines and lead the winged hussars into the charge, on phone, PC and Mac.
Short · about 50 words
Autumn 1763: Augustus III dies and the Polish throne stands empty. Powder & Crown turns the royal election of 1764 into a war between six armies of the age. Build your camp, haul saltpetre, form a line for the volley and break the enemy with a charge into the flank: in skirmishes, in a campaign with Hetman Branicki and in cities rebuilt as they stood in 1764.
Longer · about 150 words
1764. With Augustus III dead, the neighbours want to put their own man on the Polish throne, and Grand Hetman Jan Klemens Branicki and Prince Xavier of Saxony will not give up the crown without a fight. Powder & Crown is an isometric real-time strategy game set in an alternate history of that election. It joins the camp building and economy of the classic PC RTS games with 18th-century linear warfare: infantry stops cavalry with a volley, cavalry breaks formations with a charge into the flank, artillery smashes packed lines. You command units, not single soldiers, so on a phone a thumb is enough. Pick one of six armies of the age, each with its own troops, music, voices and superweapon. The campaign (Act I, seven missions) leads from the border through Nesvizh, Słonim and Białystok to the election field outside Warsaw. Battles also rage in Kraków, Dresden and Kamieniec Podolski, rebuilt from maps of the period. Made in Poland by a solo developer.
II. Key features
What sets the game apart
Eight points for previews and reviews. They describe the current version of the game, ahead of release.
- Six playable nations, with the Magnate Familia as an opponent only
- More than 30 unit types, from winged hussars to the Turkish balyemez, and a superweapon unique to each nation
- Campaign, Act I: seven missions with Colonel Hordyński and 13 cutscenes voiced in Polish and English
- Seven city maps of 1764, from Warsaw and Kraków to Dresden and Kamieniec Podolski
- Random, symmetrical battlefields: 4 terrain types, 4 regions, 4 seasons
- Skirmish, Hold the Field and Pitched Battle; two-player mode over Wi-Fi, with no server (online play with a room code is in testing)
- A Chronicle of more than 100 entries, music by the old masters and battle cries in the armies’ own languages
- Touch or mouse; the game works offline, with no ads and no subscription
III. History
From Karmazynowa Iskra to Powder & Crown
The game began as a prototype in a single HTML file, under the working title Karmazynowa Iskra (Crimson Spark). On 26 September 2026 it was renamed Proch i Korona, or Powder & Crown in English. The developer calls it a personal tribute to Knights and Merchants. The characters are sprites rendered from 3D models in Blender, in eight directions. Behind the project are research notes on the armies of the age of the Saxon kings, Turkey, field fortifications, regions, cities and the election, with sources and with uncertain points flagged. They are the basis for the make-up of the armies, the uniforms, the look of the settlements and the city maps of 1764.
In the election of 1764, powder decides the crown.
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Working title
Karmazynowa Iskra (Crimson Spark), after a scene in the story in which Prince Xavier marches out with his army despite the secret article of the Russo-Prussian alliance.
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New name: Powder & Crown, Proch i Korona in Polish.
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Inspiration
Knights and Merchants, the developer’s personal tribute.
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Art
Sprites rendered in 3D in Blender. The campaign cutscenes are 3D scenes made in Blender, while the prologue and epilogue of Act I are told through period paintings.
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Campaign
Act I, seven missions with Colonel Hordyński, from the border through Nesvizh and Słonim to Białystok and the election field outside Warsaw. Acts II–IV are planned.
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Historical background
Research notes on the armies from the age of the Saxon kings to the Partitions, on Turkey, field fortifications, regions and cities, and on the 1764 election on which the story is based.
IV. Screenshots
Scenes from the game
Nine shots from the development build: three city maps of 1764, random battlefields in three regions and three seasons, and two superweapons. The previews are slightly cropped; the downloadable files show the full frame.
Plate I The “Warsaw 1764” map, summer. The Royal Castle, the walled Old Town and the New Town above the Vistula, with Praga on the right bank. A Coalition column led by winged hussars marches in from Praga over the pontoon bridge.
Plate II The “Kraków 1764” map, summer. The Main Square with St Mary’s Church and the town hall, and walls with towers. A Coalition column marches down Grodzka Street towards Wawel, which stands above the Vistula in the bottom right corner.
Plate III The “Dresden 1764” map, winter in Saxony. The March’s army crosses the Augustus Bridge in a column of twos. By the Elbe stand the Zwinger, the Hofkirche and the palace, with the dome of the Frauenkirche on the left and the Golden Rider in the New Town market.
Plate IV Summer in the Crown, on the plains. The Coalition in red coats and the Diktat in green trade volleys across a crossroads. Smoke and cannonball craters lie between the lines.
Plate V A summer map from a distance, before the clash. A town with a market square and town hall, cottages, fields, ponds and forest, with both armies around them.
Plate VI Winter in Saxony. The March, in white with yellow and black flags, holds its line against the Protectorate in dark blue, with its guns and limbers behind. Smoke over the lines, craters in the snow.
Plate VII Autumn in Podolia. The Diktat in green fights the Porte in purple: janissaries, bombardiers, Tatar horsemen and a charge of serdengeçti, between the woods, the roads and a village of whitewashed cottages.
Plate VIII The Siemienowicz Rocket Salvo, the Coalition’s superweapon, arcs over a summer field in the Crown into the Diktat’s line. The explosions leave scorched craters.
Plate IX The Siberian Blizzard, the Diktat’s superweapon, encases the Coalition’s line in ice on an autumn field. Beyond it, the Diktat line keeps firing.
VI. Terms of use
How to use the materials
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Press contact
Get in touch
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- Press email
- contact@powderandcrown.com
- Contact person
- Mikołaj Ślęzak
- Studio
- Mikołaj Ślęzak Brickweavers, Poland
- Website
- https://powderandcrown.com