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Giant Wizards from the Outer Rim!

By tompudding

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness350
Graphics4922.78
Innovation6612.44
Humor7101.63
Mood7142.21
Fun7232.26
Overall7272.48
Theme7472.33

Comments

raptor85 2012-04-23 17:15

Won't run, on linux x86-64

ImportError: ./libnsl.so.1: symbol __libc_rpc_getport, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference

naouak 2012-04-23 21:34

My Wizard kept spawning in the water and the controls are somewhat frustrating.
Graphics looks good but the two previous problems are deal breakers :/

tompudding 2012-04-23 21:38

Thanks! For reference, spawning in the water is normal; You're a giant so it's just like wading :) The controls are horrible though I agree, I didn't have time to add things like any indication whatsoever of where to click ...

beerman 2012-04-23 21:43

Needs more variety of weapons, but could see an expanded version of this making a fun party game.
Took me a couple of minutes to figure out which was my wizard at first, might be good to have an option to centre the view when it's your turn.

crazyheckman 2012-04-23 21:46

Pretty good little strategy game. I wish there was more to it, I just ended up standing in the back until one wizard was left with no health and beat the crap out of him.

danvil 2012-04-23 21:59

I missed reference to the theme, also controls are a bit frustrating.

frankthetank 2012-04-23 22:02

This definitely needs more actions - otherwise its pretty solid.

lansiir 2012-04-23 22:48

This is fantastic! Give me some more weapons, more health, and a little more strategy and I'll be able to play it with the rest of my family! It reminds me of Advance Wars a little bit.

kvisle 2012-04-23 22:55

There's a lot of potential in this game - I hope you keep on pressing with those plans you mentioned.

The game eventually crashed for me, here's the Traceback;


Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 76, in <module>
File "wizards/build/pyi.linux2/wizards/outPYZ1.pyz/game_window", line 462, in Update
File "wizards/build/pyi.linux2/wizards/outPYZ1.pyz/game_window", line 329, in Update
File "wizards/build/pyi.linux2/wizards/outPYZ1.pyz/game_window", line 186, in NextPlayer
File "wizards/build/pyi.linux2/wizards/outPYZ1.pyz/wizard", line 202, in Select
File "wizards/build/pyi.linux2/wizards/outPYZ1.pyz/texture", line 281, in Enable
NameError: global name 'Hover' is not defined

thatsnail 2012-04-23 22:55

Controls didn't always feel too responsive and the game closed out when I was one move away from killing the wizard, hmm.

Rather nice but it's also way too easy to watch the AI duke it out and pick off the scraps afterwards.

Lots of potential though, nice work.

johnicholas 2012-04-23 23:08

I almost got to the fight! But then I think it crashed.

tompudding 2012-04-23 23:14

Kvisle, thanks for the bugreport (my first ever!), I just checked in a fix for that bug into my github. Sorry about the crashes everyone :(

artefon 2012-04-24 21:27

I got the same error of Raptor85.

uberneen 2012-04-27 13:11

I played one round through fine, then started it up again and got this a few turns in:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 86, in <module>
File "wizards/build/pyi.linux2/wizards/outPYZ1.pyz/game_window", line 471, in MouseMotion
File "wizards/build/pyi.linux2/wizards/outPYZ1.pyz/game_window", line 313, in MouseMotion
File "wizards/build/pyi.linux2/wizards/outPYZ1.pyz/game_window", line 348, in GetTile
IndexError: list index out of range

jwolf 2012-04-27 21:38

There's not much to it yet, but it's a good foundation. I'd prefer it if the Move action was a bit easier / quicker to use, perhaps by some separate controls.

Anyway, there's a lot of potential in this concept. I hope you do more with it.

geekygenius 2012-04-29 22:04

It runs fine and all, but sometimes I can't see my wizard. Sorry, but no rating from me :(

robcozzens 2012-04-29 22:12

I would try it if there was a Web or OSX version.

benjamin-soule 2012-04-30 22:30

Everything is working fine here, but the game need more spells .And random magic pentagram to refill energy or boost action point so we are not only moving to the enemy place. Nice entry

sfbtom 2012-04-30 22:34

It's impossible to right-click drag on a MacBook Pro trackpad running Windows, sorry!

josefnpat 2012-05-01 20:56

I got this to run on ubuntu 11.10.

Very nice game! Shame there isn't much more to it :)

jrasmussen24 2012-05-01 20:59

Killed one of my rival wizards... but it crashed shortly thereafter :P. Still, good basis for a turn-based strategy.

gremlin 2012-05-09 17:15

It's a good start. The rules need work, of course, since at the moment it just comes down to whoever gets lucky with attacks. More actions and tradeoffs would help, as well as meaningful terrain and more limitations (to shape the strategy).

I did have the game randomly close a couple of times, and the interface is really really clunky for a game with one unit (having to click move again and again gets tiring).

gormio 2012-05-11 21:19

Said to me "there is no soundcard" on the console although I'm pretty sure there is one in my computer. Hence I didn't hear any sounds. Is there supposed to be any audio? I'm leaving audio unjudged because I didn't hear any.