Grand Magus by daitli

You play as The Grand Magus stuck in an endless training loop. Enemy warlocks come every round and you have to steal their spells and use it against them. You can also rewind time on a concentrated area to get certain spells or health back.
Left click on warlocks to steal their spells and then space to use them.
Tools: Unity, Blender, GIMP and Audacity.
Updates: Fixed menu spellsteal icon.
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| Youtube | https://daitli.itch.io/grand-magus |
| Youtube | https://daitli.itch.io/grand-magus |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/grand-magus |
Ratings
| Overall | 144th | 3.742⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 141th | 3.691⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 177th | 3.606⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 440th | 3.281⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 88th | 4⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 51th | 3.894⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 101th | 3.403⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 107th | 3.682⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 43🗳️ | 40🗨️ |
The tunes are chill and work well with the game.
Stealing spells was confusing first, not knowing where or what to click (Starting screen guides you to use left mouse, although I figured it might be a inaccurate). Eventually got it to work and it was satisfying.
Time warp remains a mystery to me, it has only gotten me killed, haha...
As it's compo I believe you're required to include your source code so you might want to add that :smile:
I clicked right and left and spacebar, but nothing happened.
It just says I run out of time, but I had now clue why sorry.
My only hitch with this is that I didn't feel like it addressed the theme of the jam as well as other titles.
Thanks for the game though!
Each time I played it, I experimented a little more and more with the rewind mechanic, and found all kinds of cool uses for it. There's something so so gratifying about pulling an enemy back in time right into an AoE zone.
Also big programming kudos for writing a Mesh Generator script. That's tedious stuff!
All in all, very cool how the pieces came together on this one. Cheers!
_Update: mages killed: 25_
@thedarkmagi I had forgotten about the source code! I have added it on my itch page.
@luc-creationallabs @luc-creationallabs You steal spells with left mouse click on warlocks and use them with space, the cube thats constantly rotating will stop on the spell you currently have stolen. There is no time limit.
@tomeks Whooops! I will try to fix that in the next update!
Like graphics, gameplay and music/SFX/voice. May need a bigger collision box for spell stealing and a invulnerability frame when you get hit because I usually die of harassment ^^"
No chance to play, spells cannot be stolen, tutorial still is over the scene.