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Wizard's Chores

By mmason and douglass

Percentile
CategoryRankScoreCountLD50Ever
Overall11343.142021.036.0
Fun9833.112031.446.0
Innovation11152.812020.428.3
Theme13562.61203.611.7
Graphics12512.44202.810.5
Audio8112.892017.033.2
Humor3183.642074.485.3
Mood11313.032020.837.0

Comments

nbumgardner 2022-04-05 01:57 ♥ 3

A fun puzzle storytelling game. Definitely reminded me of procrastinating with the dead ends.​

darkwolf 2022-04-05 01:57 ♥ 2

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 2022-04-05 02:07 ♥ 2

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 2022-04-05 14:07 ♥ 1

@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 2022-04-05 23:27 ♥ 2

Fun and cute! I found the rainbow background was a bit much when paired with the thin font.

wetburritosupreme 2022-04-06 03:57 ♥ 1

I accidentally spent all my money on kazoos:( Good game though!

Very worthwhile, kazoo monopoly will surely pay off

mmason 2022-04-06 04:08 ♥ 1

@wetburritosupreme accidentally or made a wise financial decision?

amanda-gallant 2022-04-09 01:51 ♥ 1

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 2022-04-09 01:53 ♥ 1

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 2022-04-09 01:58 ♥ 1

Good job with this little adventure. It was fun trying to figure things out.

musaspacecadet 2022-04-15 08:07 ♥ 1

great submission

3079 2022-04-16 15:55 ♥ 1

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 2022-04-19 12:42 ♥ 1

Pretty fun, confusing at first. Could do with some more ui polish, but it was good enough for a playthrough. Good job!

zimny11 2022-04-19 12:54 ♥ 1

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!

alyd-asmar 2022-04-19 13:20 ♥ 1

Really loved this game, very cool broken aesthetics 😆 Spent at least 2 hrs winking at the Leprechaun. 100% would recommend.

squaxcom 2022-04-19 13:22 ♥ 1

My old gamer eyes had a hard time reading the text, a little more contrast or larger font would be cool. Nice entry.

solanumteam 2022-04-19 13:31 ♥ 1

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 2022-04-19 13:35 ♥ 1

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 😆

music is catchy 🎼

overall, nice one!