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1 Button Wizard X2

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Innovation673.89
Fun803.83
Overall2153.66
Humor3612.91
Theme4543.74
Mood6623.04
Graphics9082.50

Comments

captainred_ 2015-12-15 04:22

pretty cool game. very fun to play with friends

piper82 2015-12-15 04:37

man, havent had so much fun in long time. one button controls are amazing. studying cheatsheet reminded me of tekken days. 2.5(x2) stars

xodene 2015-12-15 05:04

Woah amazing work on the one button controls. Clever game design there. This entry has a lot of potential, I really hope you continue development on this on concept in the future.

alexrus07 2015-12-15 05:11

This was really fun! Tighten up the graphics and the audio, and you've got something special!

domnomnom 2015-12-15 05:45

Quite a wide variety of possible moves and interactions.
Graphics weren't great but it is a consistent style.

Props for having a nice in-game tutorial.
Overall, I did enjoy the gameplay quite a bit.

jdoughty 2015-12-15 05:48

Alot of fun for such a simple yet involved control scheme. Think it would have been a bit better with less health to make matches a bit quicker

justinooncx 2015-12-15 05:54

Surprisingly deep game! Very impressive!

dugelstudios 2015-12-15 17:50

pretty good game. tutorial was also well documented, which is defiantly crucial to a game like this

brainstorm 2015-12-15 17:58

Innovation 5/5: Really innovative game!

Fun 4/5: It's repetitive after a while, but trying different spells is funny.

Theme 5/5: Great use of theme!

Graphics 2/5: Rushed MS Paint graphics. At least have charm :).

Humor 4/5: Funny enemies.

Mood 3/5: The backgrounds and characters give to it a fantastical environment mood.

Overall 5/5: Great entry, improve graphics and change a bit the controls (I would suggest one button for green circles and anoher fo red ones). It have a lot of potential.

penthaquill 2015-12-15 18:01

This has to be my favorite game so far! :) Great gameplay and if you added more enemies (maybe random?) i could see myself buying this game for money!

liquidmedia 2015-12-16 01:09

Cool game lots going on with one button

drteaspoon 2015-12-16 01:12

Well done! Feels like the finger gymnastics from magicka but with one button. O_O

kmakai 2015-12-16 01:20

I thought this was a really awesome entry! Great concept that fits perfectly with the theme (as another comment said, you could have made the "long-press" a different button, but that would have made potential balance issues with the mana orbs...) it was lots of fun and felt fleshed out for a jam game. I liked the charm of the art, and particularly appreciated that you went "all-in" with it -- making full backgrounds and details in the levels, which takes it above what a lot of other entries get to. Again, great job and congrats! I had a lot of fun with this one.

_hopfrog 2015-12-16 02:18

Loved it! I find it funny lol, also spell combinations were fun to discover and play with

johnwatmuff 2015-12-16 02:21

Pretty fun! Great focus on gameplay. I wish I had a friend to play with, but the bots seemed to fight well enough. well done.

category5kawaiiju 2015-12-16 02:25

The controls are amazing. I loved the tutorial, it was fantastic. The fact that you have two player and single player is astounding. This would be great to play with friends. I had so much fun that I bookmarked it. Your gameplay is innovative, robust, and fun. It's simple and technical at the same time. I'm very impressed. You should get an artist to work with you and develop this further!

strehfox 2015-12-16 03:53

Neat mechanic for 1 button.

mramlice 2015-12-16 04:02

Very good use of the 2 button mechanics. I thoroughly enjoyed playing this. The fights are a little bit too long imo (maybe reduce HP). The game design as a whole is outstanding though, and there's definitely a lot of depth to it. Great Job!

adamk33n3r 2015-12-16 06:08

Fantastic job. Was super fun to figure out which combinations did what.

crucknuk 2015-12-16 22:21

Nice entry. I like the fact that you implemented many different spells and the game is funny. Well done ;)

necromac 2015-12-16 22:25

Incredible, Quite a lot of spells and enemies to fight against!

soulbound 2015-12-17 02:29

Fun game. I am not a big fan of the graphics but they work.

eerongal 2015-12-17 02:33

Neat concept! Good work!

korvexx 2015-12-17 19:02

Cool game! I'll have to try this with my roommate. :) My favorite things in games is messing around and seeing what abilities and mechanics are available. So naturally, I loved this. Good job!

kunonooni 2015-12-18 02:39

That was a really cool game. I love fighting games and this one even had a cool mechanic too boot! Well Done.

bradur 2015-12-18 12:53

This was very fun with a friend! The gameplay is simple to learn but challenging to master. We had lots of fun trying to out-wizard each other. The sounds and graphics go along nicely together. Good work!

nowandstudios 2015-12-18 18:20

Mechanics reminds me Magicka. I don't like sounds, when you've played for a long time they're annoying. Overall a solid entry!

nunesbarbosa 2015-12-19 02:05

Very innovative!

poptartftw 2015-12-19 13:06

The game is fun and I really like the concept you were going with. Really liked getting the combo where you slow down the projectiles, and afterwards just annihilate the opponent by using the magic shield and see their face when I send like 3 projectiles at them for a almost one-hit move.

weeping-rupee 2015-12-19 16:16

The good:
Neat concept and true to the theme: attacks are determined by length of pressing buttons/button patterns.

The tutorial was very good

The bad:
I wish the sprites were a little more detiled but I can't fault you for that because the mechanics are solid.

Nice work!

sir-magic 2015-12-19 17:30

Really nice game overall, loved the combo possibilities.

tyr_arcana 2015-12-19 17:55

The graphics are pretty terrible but understandable for programmer art. The gameplay is amazing and reminds me a lot of Magicka, with a dash of Divekick mixed in. Very awesome, well done.

hotboxgames 2015-12-20 14:47

Wow really good entry!
Such a cool idea and really fun to play,
I like the little dance when you beat somebody :)
Nice!

speciesunknown 2015-12-20 16:51

This is excellent, if I were you I would definitely expand this, it has great potential as a phone game.

blobo 2015-12-20 16:57

I really like the dnace that the wizard does when he wins. pretty cool game.

iovorobiev 2015-12-22 12:19

Wow this one is really great! Gameplay is so amazing!!! Very nice work, like it, man!

tortoise 2015-12-30 21:37

Fun game, and love the different combinations you can do