After 5 hours of day-dreaming, design and making bad pixel art, I was able to whip up a decent-looking screenshot.



The Game

You’re a blue wizard that can conjure artefacts. Your job is to aid heroes in their journey by making artefacts that fit each hero’s journey requirements. You will draw the shape of the desired artefact in a 5×5 grid a-la Minecraft. As the game starts to shape up, I’ll probably refine this idea further to make it more exciting.

I use FlashPunk as the game engine.

Spent the last few hours coding up gameplay and doing a little bit of balancing. Code is very spaghetti. I’ve finalized the goal of the game, which is to collect 1 million to pay off the wizard’s mafia debt.

 

More left to do:

• More items, enemies, adventurer types
• Item sprites, adventurer sprites, wizard sprite
• Win and Game over screen
• Sounds
• Music

I’m just a programmer, so music will be a big challenge

I’ve submitted my first LD entry: Take This.

• In this game, you select the best items for adventurers by drawing them
• There’s at least 20 different items to discover; get a notepad to keep track of all shapes
• When an adventurer defeats a monster, you get money. You win when you have 500,000 gold

I’m pretty excited to be able to actually finish the game thanks to scoping features down (fancy sprites, etc) and focusing on core gameplay elements.

Development Screenshots

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