Mr Wizard VS The World

by jacic
Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.70
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.27
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.55
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.76
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.00
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.33
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.25
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.45
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★47%
This game isn't the most user-friendly, and for that I apologize.

You play as Mr Wizard, spawning monsters to fight those pesky heroes in this turn-based arena fighter!

Every turn, your mana increases. If you can't cast anything for any reason, press Enter to go on with the turn. If a hero attacks and you have no monsters spawned, you will lose HP and gain mana.

If nothing seems to happen on a turn, the monster(s) or hero(s) missed.

Controls are explained in-game, but I was unable to put some details in, such as the mana cost of each monster.

Here are the stats of every monster:

Slime:
HP: 2
STR: 1
DEF: 1
SPD: 1
COST 2

Skeleton:
HP: 2
STR: 1
DEF: 2
SPD: 2
COST 3

Goat:
HP: 3
STR: 2
DEF: 2
SPD: 2
COST 6

Cat:
HP: 3
STR: 3
DEF: 2
SPD: 3
COST 7

'Monster' 5 is a heal spell, which heals all monsters by 1 HP, and costs 5 mana.

I'm excited about the potential (I think) this game has, and will continue to improve it, maybe to the point where I think it could sell.

This game was made with Haxe + NME + HaxePunk. A linux build should be up soon.

Comments16

loren17 Dec 2012, 17:37
fun! I liked this mechanic
Casino Jack17 Dec 2012, 19:25
Would be useful to have some basic instructions during the game (just "Press 1 for..." etc). Good concept though.
kewry18 Dec 2012, 05:05
web link is completely black, flash version 11.5 chrome
windows link throws std@get_env__1
dekart18 Dec 2012, 05:10
Simple and fun :)
Nutter18 Dec 2012, 06:41
Also get nothing for the web version, just a black screen
strong99
strong9918 Dec 2012, 07:58
Simple game, but I never got past the last hero :( Enjoyed it.
shaneshanekavanagh
shaneshanekavanagh18 Dec 2012, 15:23
I had great fun killing the boss. Had more fun destroying the hero partys though!
Jacicauthor18 Dec 2012, 16:43
kewry, Nutter: Do you have a filter running? Is there any newer flash version? I've uploaded versions that might fix it, but you two are the only ones encountering this. :(
evilseanbot18 Dec 2012, 20:30
Might have been nice to put the monster info on the bottom of the screen, or somethin'.
Cake&Code18 Dec 2012, 22:25
That is one mean goat monster! Hehe, nicely done with that.

It was a bit hard to tell what was going on and when. Animations would have been great, but even just some simple +5 or -1 or some way to show that stats have changed due to attack would have been good!

Fun enough though I wasn't fully engaged.

Good job! :D
azurenimbus
azurenimbus20 Dec 2012, 02:00
Fun game! I definitely agree that this has potential, Jacic, you should keep at it and explore the dynamics some more. Nicely done. :)
AdventureIslands
AdventureIslands21 Dec 2012, 09:26
Managed to beat the boss! this was pretty good, it could use lots of refining and making it clearer whose turn it is and who did what, but otherwise I liked it.
Jacicauthor21 Dec 2012, 17:21
Thanks for the kind words everyone!

I've uploaded post-compo versions, which include a visual reminder of which keys spawns which creatures, as well as the mana cost for each. The windows build is also fixed for real now (post-compo version)!
delpes
delpes4 Jan 2013, 03:16
Cool. Had fun with it :)
tripleVisionGames6 Jan 2013, 14:20
arrgh I got the boss down to 1 then died!! Fun idea would be worth working on to make it more responsive and a bit mroe fun

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