Go Spell It On A Mountain by cgriff

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made by cgriff for LD35 (COMPO)
You are an elderly and forgetful spell-casting mage who lives on a mountain. And you're the only one who can stop the rampage of a vile shapeshifting beast.

Cast spells by typing in the magic spellwords. Wound the beast by using the correct spell for whatever form it has taken. Forgotten the spellword? Not to worry - they are all written behind you. But if you're going to turn and check, be quick! There are innocent lives at stake.

SHARPEN YOUR MEMORY.

USE YOUR SPELLS.

SAVE THE PEOPLE.



Controls:

Arrow keys to turn

Space to quick turn back to beast

Type spellwords with the keyboard and hit Return to cast



Other Notes:

I recommend full-screening the game. And having a good short-term memory!

Also - the standalone Unity build is a bit nicer than the HTML 5 one (the lighting and fonts are better for some reason). So if you have the time, you may want to download that build. But if not, the HTML 5 one on itch.io is fine.

Best settings for standalone:

Screen size = 1360 x 768

Ratings

Coolness 37% 1626
Overall 3.17 510
Audio 2.95 350
Fun 3.24 400
Graphics 2.90 523
Humor 3.75 38
Innovation 3.76 124
Mood 2.95 458
Theme 3.86 141

Feedback

TLansdale
18. Apr 2016 · 12:51 UTC
Great stuff. Really captures the feeling of being brought low by your own past incompetence and failings as a human being.
Dooskington
18. Apr 2016 · 17:20 UTC
I did not know what the hell was going on, and the resolution was messed up (GUI was off the screen), but I liked the concept. I couldn't really tell if my spells were doing anything, though.
ito123456789
18. Apr 2016 · 17:24 UTC
Frustratingly fun, I did really liked it.
cornand34
18. Apr 2016 · 17:28 UTC
Kind of liked the game, didn't see a gameover screen though which suprised me.
mhlbrothers
18. Apr 2016 · 17:40 UTC
Cool game.
egos
18. Apr 2016 · 17:41 UTC
really a nice idea and i love the sound
The menu left and right is good too

But i didnt have the feeling of changing something by typing word
Wevel
18. Apr 2016 · 17:48 UTC
Having to type out commands made the game quite difficult
DesignerNap
18. Apr 2016 · 17:54 UTC
This is an nice game full of awesome humour! I am glad I found the washboard comment :D
- Barold Snapper
tayl1r
18. Apr 2016 · 18:43 UTC
All hail the monster!

Nice, a little on the easy side.
silkworm_sweatshop
18. Apr 2016 · 19:03 UTC
Never had so much fun failing at a game. "WHY ISN'T IT WORKING? *Turns around* Oh, I forgot the exclamation point.. of course".
SuperIzzo
18. Apr 2016 · 19:34 UTC
I beat the beast and many died, but I don't care, I'm on a mountain top!

I downloaded the Windows version, but the UI problem is a little more difficult to workaround if your monitor doesn't support 1360x768. Unity (NGUI) allows positioning and resizing GUI elements relative to the screen size.

Also I see this a lot in Unity games, you don't need to include the "player_win_x86.pdb" and "player_win_x86_s.pdb" files in the zip, they take a lot of space and are only useful for debugging.
Blobo
18. Apr 2016 · 20:32 UTC
Interesting concept. It was pretty difficult remembering all the spells. i never died though, so i guess i did pretty good.
VictorDoval
18. Apr 2016 · 20:39 UTC
You hit where it hurts! Congratulations, super work and very fun :D
Geckoo1337
19. Apr 2016 · 05:07 UTC
Great entry. A game with a funny gameplay and well done.
cptalbertwesker
23. Apr 2016 · 18:00 UTC
Words cannot express how much I love this game... although I guess they do. The humour, the challenge, and the satisfaction gained from it are what I play games for. I wish the beast would take more a beating from me so it could last longer!! :)
SnedHlepPls
27. Apr 2016 · 23:38 UTC
Interesting concept here. I like the idea of memorizing the spells.
Rock Eaters
29. Apr 2016 · 18:58 UTC
i don't really get fun to play it .
adsilcott
02. May 2016 · 19:25 UTC
Clever and fun game, trying to decipher those notes. I like that it gave me time to figure it out and it slowly became more natural.