Wizard's Chores by mmason

[raw]
made by mmason for Ludum Dare 50 (JAM)

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.


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

Ratings

Overall 1134th 3.139⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Fun 983th 3.111⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1115th 2.806⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1356th 2.611⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 1251th 2.444⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Audio 811th 2.889⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Humor 318th 3.639⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Mood 1131th 3.028⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Given 29🗳️ 13🗨️

Feedback

NBumgardner
05. Apr 2022 · 01:57 UTC
A fun puzzle storytelling game. Definitely reminded me of procrastinating with the dead ends.​
LDJam user 184264
05. Apr 2022 · 01:57 UTC
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 L
05. Apr 2022 · 02:07 UTC
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
05. Apr 2022 · 14:07 UTC
@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
EspyLinder
05. Apr 2022 · 23:27 UTC
Fun and cute! I found the rainbow background was a bit much when paired with the thin font.
WetBurritoSupreme
06. Apr 2022 · 03:57 UTC
I accidentally spent all my money on kazoos:( Good game though!

Very worthwhile, kazoo monopoly will surely pay off
🎤 mmason
06. Apr 2022 · 04:08 UTC
@wetburritosupreme accidentally or made a wise financial decision?
Amanda Gallant
09. Apr 2022 · 01:51 UTC
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
09. Apr 2022 · 01:53 UTC
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
09. Apr 2022 · 01:58 UTC
Good job with this little adventure. It was fun trying to figure things out.
musaspacecadet
15. Apr 2022 · 08:07 UTC
great submission
3079
16. Apr 2022 · 15:55 UTC
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
19. Apr 2022 · 12:42 UTC
Pretty fun, confusing at first. Could do with some more ui polish, but it was good enough for a playthrough. Good job!
zimny11
19. Apr 2022 · 12:54 UTC
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
19. Apr 2022 · 13:20 UTC
Really loved this game, very cool broken aesthetics :laughing:
Spent at least 2 hrs winking at the Leprechaun.
100% would recommend.
squaxcom
19. Apr 2022 · 13:22 UTC
My old gamer eyes had a hard time reading the text, a little more contrast or larger font would be cool. Nice entry.
SolanumTeam
19. Apr 2022 · 13:31 UTC
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
19. Apr 2022 · 13:35 UTC
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!