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WhereIsMyWand? by Szkocka

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made by Szkocka for Ludum Dare 47 (COMPO)

"WhereIsMyWand?" is a game about necromancer who mastered death an is on a mission to find his lost magic wand, that grants him his powers.

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Submerge yourself in this immersive Open-World(almost) adventure to find magic artifact. Be careful, you may die on the way there
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Quick notes about the dev process:
-During the Compo I slept for 16 hours
-During the Compo I was at work for 6 hours + 1 hour of going back home.
-My scroll broke the first hours of the compo

Controls:
-A/D -=- moving left or right(zombie controls are inverted)
-W/S -=- moving up or down(only as a ghost)
-Space -=- jumping(only as a zombie)
-Z/X/C -=- form change
-V -=- show hint

Software used:
-Unity Engine ver. 2019.4.11f1
-GIMP 2.10.18.0
-BoscaCeoil v2
-Visual Studio Community

Bugfixes:
-Fixed wrongly overlapping Sprite Layers
-Fixed icon not being present
-Fixed displaying work title to proper title
-Fixed character speeding in air rapidly while in air(void Update to void FixedUpdate)

Important changes:
-Changed hosting to permanent one
-Uploaded the fixed build of the game and fixed project

Youtube https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LVmVSpJBdFzE8yVSuuU7SP9ld6aRVGes/view?usp=sharing
Youtube https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mISyTXi5k4H1iDH6AEMcBS7FhXQZR3iO?usp=sharing
Youtube https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JjEKA6iieZyZfb-9ZDhTL80WAR21J7ys/view?usp=sharing
Youtube https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SQ6ZPR-pjsntTGbnuNXjlh-v14loZKBW/view?usp=sharing
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/whereismywand

Ratings

Overall 565th 2.81⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Fun 503th 2.793⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 405th 3.086⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Theme 611th 2.212⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 495th 2.879⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Audio 407th 2.685⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Humor 191th 2.923⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Mood 421th 2.926⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Given 14🗳️ 25🗨️

Feedback

IndieQuest
05. Oct 2020 · 14:46 UTC
Very nice game, thank you!
🎤 Szkocka
05. Oct 2020 · 14:48 UTC
@indiequest thanks for playing :smile_cat:
TheCze
05. Oct 2020 · 14:57 UTC
Very cool concept, I really liked the graphics.
daitli
05. Oct 2020 · 14:59 UTC
I love the hand drawn graphics they are super cute!
p-brighenti
05. Oct 2020 · 15:03 UTC
Love the idea of being able to change forms to access different parts of the map (although you can kinda go out of bounds haha). Loved the parallax on the background!
🎤 Szkocka
05. Oct 2020 · 15:06 UTC
@thecze Thanks for playing :smiley_cat:.
Seskon
05. Oct 2020 · 15:11 UTC
should there something happen when you get the wand?, because at that point I didnt know how to continue

graphics and sound are good tho, and its an interesting idea :)
🎤 Szkocka
05. Oct 2020 · 15:17 UTC
@p-brighenti, @daitli @seskon Thanks for playing guys :D @seskon Yeah, you can change into any form by pressing Z/X/C and pressing V will show you the hint. The objective is to go back home and this would start another level in full game, sadly, I had to little time to make any other levels.
sampadders
05. Oct 2020 · 20:47 UTC
Nice game dude! Enjoyed the changing mechanics for the different forms and great work on the graphics.

The only bug I ran into was I got caught on the corner then flew in the air when jumping up the platforms.
Hadryel
05. Oct 2020 · 21:55 UTC
Cool concept! And nice aesthetics too! Well done!
TheseusInABottle
06. Oct 2020 · 05:52 UTC
Cool game and I am always a sucker for a bit of parallax. Your graphics and sounds are pretty nice as well.
🎤 Szkocka
06. Oct 2020 · 06:39 UTC
@sampadders "Its not a bug, its a feature". @hadryel @theseusinabottle Thanks for playing ;D
Arad HamidSamiee
06. Oct 2020 · 17:56 UTC
The game was fuuuun... Loved it.. ghosts and zombies? sign me in. It requires a lot of polishing tho ngl. And I didn't really get the theme from it but it was a nice little game you got there.
TheWinrawr
07. Oct 2020 · 04:24 UTC
I like that you added the hints, I would have been really lost without them. I enjoyed that you gain additional mechanics as you collect the items, it gives a nice feeling of progression. Nice job overall!
🎤 Szkocka
09. Oct 2020 · 14:50 UTC
@arad-hamidsamiee @thewinrawr thanks for playing, the thing about the theme problem is time crunch, in original concept you weren't supposed to have control over which state you are in. For example, to pass the level you had to plan your deaths and your returns to the body to become zombie. Originally also there were supposed to be enemies that could be fought only in human form and ghost form had to beware of rouge specters. But as always lack of time(this ludumdare especially due to me going to work at Saturday)

Ps if someone feels like doing this concept justice just do it and let me know ^^
Arad HamidSamiee
09. Oct 2020 · 16:04 UTC
@szkocka Cool ideas, I would definitely love to play it as a whole game.
Endurion
09. Oct 2020 · 19:01 UTC
Nice :)
The piano music is getting aggravating pretty fast, but everything else is fine. I went into the house right at the start and got stuck.
The concept is great! I hoped for a hidden part to the right of the tree, and lo and behold, I found the edge of the world!
Somogy
10. Oct 2020 · 01:09 UTC
What an incredible game! I loved it, great job
gamechoy
10. Oct 2020 · 15:54 UTC
Really liked the hint system you had and the moment where he falls off the cliff and dies caught me off guard! Nice entry!
mrhthepie
10. Oct 2020 · 18:42 UTC
Interesting game, with some good ideas, if a little simple and short. Would have been nice to see some puzzles developed once you can swap between characters.
Michael Horst
10. Oct 2020 · 19:04 UTC
Nice little submission! I can see where you were going with the theme, and I've had the experience where the need to cut scope resulted in a game that doesn't fit the theme as well. I ran into a bug in the first 2 seconds of playing where if you move to the left at the start you get permanently stuck. My biggest suggestion for a quick win on quality/polish is to allow quitting with the escape key. It takes 30 seconds to implement and is much nicer than needing to kill the application to quit. It's the first thing I add to every new project.

Besides those two things, overall I think this was a good submission considering your time limitation. Well done!
Omiya Games
11. Oct 2020 · 01:26 UTC
The changing forms between ghost, normal, and zombie was really interesting. There are some strong potential behind that mechanic, unlocking new abilities between forms. Ghost in particular was really cool.

That said, the game does feel a bit bare-bones. Sound like the hectic schedule you've mentioned in the description prevented you from implementing more ideas into this game. Still, at least you got a silly story in there that required no text to convey.

As an aside, a random bug I found was that as soon as you start the game, returning back home soft-locks the game.
staircase27a
11. Oct 2020 · 12:13 UTC
Interesting idea but felt like there wasn't that much point to the changing forms being needed.

Could be good with a few more tasks that require you to be in certain forms to do. Currently the ghost form would just be the best for any situation so there may need to be some limits on what the ghost can do or where it can go or something.

Also if you try and change from ghost while underground you end up hidden and able to move but not in any way that makes sense.
Tomssuli
12. Oct 2020 · 20:20 UTC
Good start but ended very shortly. Good base for more puzzles though. I liked the pixelart.