Runaway Magic by SerpentWorks Games
A simple game about a runaway mage, an excessive amount of mushrooms, and a lava lamp. Play as the inanimate green runaway mage as they try to put as much distance between their teacher's servants and themselves as possible, and try to get a handle on their magic powers.
You know what they say though... the more magic you use, the more fungus is among you.
Controls:
Click to move and continue the dialogue.
Credits:
Dialogue scripting - Yarn embed: https://github.com/infiniteammoinc/yarn
Parsing of the dialogue - YarnSpinner embed: https://github.com/thesecretlab/YarnSpinner
All art assets except the player character - Kenney.nl embed: http://www.kenney.nl/
Music(via the Fake Music Generator) - cgMuisic embed: http://codeminion.com/blogs/maciek/2008/05/cgmusic-computers-create-music/
Changelog
v1.01
Fixed a nasty bug where the king shroom began to walk and burst through his castle walls then vanish if the Player was approaching the castle gate.
Fixed up some improper dialogue tree connecting. Still investigating some of the conditionals.
Also now the download link actually will give you a playable game. Who knew the data folder was so important
v1.02
Fixed a bug where you could die even though you completed the game
Red mushrooms now actually give you health instead of taunting you with ideas of regaining health.
Builds for OS and Linux now available!
Ratings
| Overall | 912th | 3.067⭐ | 54🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 937th | 2.827⭐ | 54🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 823th | 2.885⭐ | 54🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1005th | 2.769⭐ | 54🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 269th | 3.519⭐ | 55🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 581th | 3.26⭐ | 54🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 49🗳️ | 57🗨️ |
@juxipolo Yeah the game does lack decent feedback, visually and soundwise. After the voting, I'm gunna polish it up with some better player feedback. :)
@tinykidtoo ;-D
@sorlok Yeah it wasn't super clear how the choices would actually affect things. I'm glad you enjoyed though!
@Wheffle YES! Maximum hilarity achieved!
@fangzhangmnm Thanks! I didn't use any voxels to make this! Just modular 3D assets :3
@Blazen Thanks!
It needs some music!
I would say that the gameplay mechanism needs to be polished more. It seems that the main part is the dialog adventure game but adds additional parts to fit the theme.
@simonhutchinson I swear it's got music! XD I'm glad it was funnier than your expectations!
@cliff-lee-cl You know, that's a really good point. It's definitely lacking something, and had I not decided to try to create a dialogue system halfway through the jam I would have put into place some other mechanics that I'd been prototyping the day before. It's something I'm looking into to expand and polish on outside of the jam. Thanks for the honest critique!
I'd love to play a later version of the game though, once you've finished adding in all the core features you wanted. It's a really creative idea.
The script was pretty funny actually, and I enjoyed playing though. Could probably have done with a run through a spell checker as there were loads of spelling mistakes, but obviously not the end of the world. It was nice to have (what appeared to be) a branching story too.
Good game!
Graphism is neat, the music is nice and the gameplay is really fun ! I'm sure you will -magically- ascend to the top with this game ;)
Love the music and really fun game