Wandstep is a puzzle-ish game where you charge your weapon (a magic wand) by stepping back, left or right, in relation to where you stepped from into your current position.
Go play it and see if you can figure out the mechanics! Or maybe you should read first. It's not very intuitive, to be entirely honest with you. 8)
--- Exact game mechanics ---
* There are three attacks, each of which charge up individually based on the character's movement. The attack occurs from the player's previous position.
* The wand will blast fire instantly when it is charged up. The trigger charge depends on how many mushrooms there are on the level. You probably should first clear them out as quickly as possible.
* Stone is destroyed only by the attack that is charged by turning back, but this attack does not have a large area of effect like the others.
* The attacks charged by turning left or right are as wide as how much there is empty space next to the player.
* The goal is to remove all the fungus from the level with a minimal number of steps.
--- Implementation ---
This is a HTML5 game and was tested in Firefox and Chrome.
The online version stores anonymous high scores on the server so that you can try to beat levels scored by others.
Really nice mood. Strange puzzle control system. I like it but I didn't play long enough to understand how to fire with intention. Also not sure what was populating the trigger equation (oh it was the mushrooms). nice degree of completion
I literally have no idea how it works, even after reading it. Maybe it's something that can be solved with more player feedback, or maybe not, I'm not sure. But I think some people would love this kind of puzzle games. I just don't get it, though.
simple, but kind of complex. it took me a while to actually get the hang of properly executing my steps, but i have to admit once i DID get it down, this was extremely satisfying and made me feel like a wizard :P
The art was nice but I didn't quite understand the mechanic. It needs to be explained to me. I understand that you move to get closer to the trigger but I don't know what quite counts or how to aim it.
Cool puzzle game. I didn't fully understand the rules, but I had enough of an idea to complete a few levels with a poor "score." I'm going to come back to try this again later after I've had some time to think about it.
Hi there. Interesting idea to move to build up next attack pattern. Found it distracting to be looking at left, back, right numbers all the time - maybe float them near player ? Like that you took time to make level select screen.
I liked the presentation a lot, very well done! The wand attacks were also impressive. I'll admit that I button-mashed; the explanations of the game mechanic make sense when read individually, but they're not really telling me how I can predict when or where the wand fires.
I got the hang of it after reading your description. I would say having "2 +" is a bit confusing when the only numebr that matters is the sum. Pretty creative idea, but a bit complicated to really pull off. Not abd.
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This could make for a good mobile game.