Wizard's Chores

by mmason
co-authored: @douglass
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.14
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.11
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.81
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.61
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.44
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.89
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.64
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.03
You are a powerful wizard who serves a kind Patron. The Patron has requested your most powerful potion, so you have to stop sitting around and go do some chores.

You more or less remember what you need, this shouldn't be too complicated.

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An incremental game about a wizard trying to make a potion for their land lord.

SPOILERS: If you get stuck there is a walk through here

Comments18

NBumgardner
NBumgardner5 Apr 2022, 01:57
A fun puzzle storytelling game. Definitely reminded me of procrastinating with the dead ends.​
LDJam user 1842645 Apr 2022, 01:57
The main part of the game window looks pretty good, but the animated rainbow background and the static rainbow background are hard on the eyes. Its been a while since I've seen this sort of text based puzzle game and it was fun, if a bit rough around the edges.

PS: I think how you get the dragon's breath is particularly funny. It *is* technically heartfelt...
Craig L5 Apr 2022, 02:07
Cute, with a lot of options and it works fine. I do wish you could check what you need at anytime though, and the background was nice at first but a bit much overtime due to how much space it took up during gameplay.
mmason
mmasonauthor5 Apr 2022, 14:07
@darkwolf @craig-l we did plan on adding an option to stop/disable the background but ran out of time, may add a quick option for that to prevent people getting sick.

Thanks for playing
EspyLinder5 Apr 2022, 23:27
Fun and cute! I found the rainbow background was a bit much when paired with the thin font.
WetBurritoSupreme
WetBurritoSupreme6 Apr 2022, 03:57
I accidentally spent all my money on kazoos:( Good game though!

Very worthwhile, kazoo monopoly will surely pay off
Amanda Gallant9 Apr 2022, 01:51
I liked that the game came with a volume slider and tick boxes for music and background, both were great for the first little bit but melted my brain over time haha. I found myself lost a few times but I kept wanting to get back in there to find all the items. Good job
Archimagus
Archimagus9 Apr 2022, 01:53
Interesting idea and thank you for the option to turn off the background, I don't know if my brain would have been able to not melt with a scrolling rainbow in the background while reading all that. Some of the puzzles made sense, but others seemed kind of random, just click buttons until something new happens. Still, I did make it to the end nice job.
Itskdog
Itskdog9 Apr 2022, 01:58
Good job with this little adventure. It was fun trying to figure things out.
3079
307916 Apr 2022, 15:55
A fun little text adventure about a timeloop, all the puzzles were pretty logical. I feel like some more work on the UI would make the game even better. Overall a good entry though, good job!
his-games
his-games19 Apr 2022, 12:42
Pretty fun, confusing at first. Could do with some more ui polish, but it was good enough for a playthrough. Good job!
zimny11
zimny1119 Apr 2022, 12:54
Interesting game. Nice game mechanics with a timer. Also, thanks for ability to turn off background. It is nice, but after a while it become a bit distracting. Good job with the game!
LDJam user 234769
LDJam user 23476919 Apr 2022, 13:20
Really loved this game, very cool broken aesthetics :laughing:
Spent at least 2 hrs winking at the Leprechaun.
100% would recommend.
squaxcom
squaxcom19 Apr 2022, 13:22
My old gamer eyes had a hard time reading the text, a little more contrast or larger font would be cool. Nice entry.
SolanumTeam
SolanumTeam19 Apr 2022, 13:31
Really nice little game! I like the humor in it a lot! I'd just suggest to make the font a little bigger. Even in fullscreen sometimes it was hard to read. But besides that, great work ^^
koalatte
koalatte19 Apr 2022, 13:35
it's refreshing to see a text-based story game, some combination of choices would blank out the UI at least in Firefox (not sure in Chrome)

had a good chuckle with a lot of the choices :laughing:

music is catchy :musical_score:

overall, nice one!

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