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You are an elderly and forgetful spell-casting mage who lives on a mountain. And you're the only one who can stop the rampage of a vile shapeshifting beast.
Cast spells by typing in the magic spellwords. Wound the beast by using the correct spell for whatever form it has taken. Forgotten the spellword? Not to worry - they are all written behind you. But if you're going to turn and check, be quick! There are innocent lives at stake.
SHARPEN YOUR MEMORY.
USE YOUR SPELLS.
SAVE THE PEOPLE.
Controls:
Arrow keys to turn
Space to quick turn back to beast
Type spellwords with the keyboard and hit Return to cast
Other Notes:
I recommend full-screening the game. And having a good short-term memory!
Also - the standalone Unity build is a bit nicer than the HTML 5 one (the lighting and fonts are better for some reason). So if you have the time, you may want to download that build. But if not, the HTML 5 one on itch.io is fine.
Best settings for standalone:
Screen size = 1360 x 768
Downloads and Links
Ratings
| #38 | Humor | 3.75 |
| #124 | Innovation | 3.76 |
| #141 | Theme | 3.86 |
| #350 | Audio | 2.95 |
| #400 | Fun | 3.24 |
| #458 | Mood | 2.95 |
| #510 | Overall | 3.17 |
| #523 | Graphics | 2.90 |
| #1626 | Coolness | 37% |
Comments
I did not know what the hell was going on, and the resolution was messed up (GUI was off the screen), but I liked the concept. I couldn't really tell if my spells were doing anything, though.
Kind of liked the game, didn't see a gameover screen though which suprised me.
really a nice idea and i love the sound
The menu left and right is good too
But i didnt have the feeling of changing something by typing word
This is an nice game full of awesome humour! I am glad I found the washboard comment :D
- Barold Snapper
Never had so much fun failing at a game. "WHY ISN'T IT WORKING? *Turns around* Oh, I forgot the exclamation point.. of course".
I beat the beast and many died, but I don't care, I'm on a mountain top!
I downloaded the Windows version, but the UI problem is a little more difficult to workaround if your monitor doesn't support 1360x768. Unity (NGUI) allows positioning and resizing GUI elements relative to the screen size.
Also I see this a lot in Unity games, you don't need to include the "player_win_x86.pdb" and "player_win_x86_s.pdb" files in the zip, they take a lot of space and are only useful for debugging.
Interesting concept. It was pretty difficult remembering all the spells. i never died though, so i guess i did pretty good.
You hit where it hurts! Congratulations, super work and very fun :D
Words cannot express how much I love this game... although I guess they do. The humour, the challenge, and the satisfaction gained from it are what I play games for. I wish the beast would take more a beating from me so it could last longer!! :)
Interesting concept here. I like the idea of memorizing the spells.
Clever and fun game, trying to decipher those notes. I like that it gave me time to figure it out and it slowly became more natural.
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Great stuff. Really captures the feeling of being brought low by your own past incompetence and failings as a human being.