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GitHub repository URL
https://github.com/alan0120/Game-Off-2025
Game description
You play as a misanthropic guy named Omphrey who suddenly gets teleported to a world of magic and wiz- I mean wand wavers. A mysterious wand waver named Apple offers to bring you back home, but only if you find his beloved spell pages (that fell out of his spellbook in between traveling dimensions).
Theme interpretation
You wave your wand to cast spells.
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Impressive, the completeness of the game is unbelievable. I would say it's the best one I played in the Jam.
Thanks!!
Thank you so much!
Pretty amazing product to kick out in 1 month, well done! I think some of the puzzles were made tedious by some inconsistencies in the platforming controls, running off of a moving platform into spikes 5 times in a row was blood boiling. I think with some polish this could be a viable steam release. Nice work.
Yeah I definitely agree that the movement and puzzles need to be polished, small stuff like that makes the difference between an annoying game vs a fun game. Thanks for playing!
A very fun game! Unfortunately, the difficulty was slightly high and my time was limited, so I was unable to complete the level in the end.
Thanks for playing, If you want to experience the game through to the end you can use some of the Assist settings in the options menu!
Amazing work! This feels like a full game! I loved the cutscenes, writing, and game mechanic. My only complaint is that the levels themselves just needed more playtesting (e.g, many levels are more or less impossible for multiple attempts only because I don't know what will be coming... a Celeste-style "viewfinder" would be an easy fix). For a game jam, that's totally expected though.
One personal preference thing: you created a very cool spellcast mechanic, but then limit it to a square grid. Given the nature of the spells, an Okami-like "draw a circle" could have been more evocative!
Huge thanks for adding the accessibility options. I would not have been able to see the ending without them :) Even with both on, the boss was hard for me!
Thanks for the feedback! I do agree that some of the levels needed some adjustments, a couple of them are only feasible via the reset spell.
I see what you mean with the drawing limitations, we made it this way to simplify the drawing process so that it could feel good during platforming/combat. We originally wanted to use a nueral network to compare the player's drawing to a spell symbol (like the player would have to draw the symbol for fire within a certain percent error), but obviously this has its own complexitites that even a one month Jam wouldn't allow for (unless we had more experience with machine learning algos). But yeah, the mechanic can 100% be tweaked to feel more intuitive and fun.
Thanks for playing through the game to the end! One of most fun parts about developing this game was writing the story/dialogue, so I'm glad you got to experience it all :)
We just noticed your post on the Game Off discord regarding our game, thank you so much for that, for your kind words, and the advice as well! Insanely nice of you :)
I like what I played. Nice little cinematic cool spell casting and puzzles.
Thank you!! Glad you enjoyed :)
Really nice submission, I loved the mechanic for spells.
I’ve always thought that if magic was a thing, you’d need to study and remember each one, so this really works I think.
The animations are nice on the sprites too, dialogue is engaging enough.. Good job guys
Thanks!!
The prologue and the graphic are nice.
I would like play with this game, just the drawing didn't work for me :(
(I used Windows version)
Oh I'm sorry to hear that the drawing didn't work for you. What exactly wasn't working ? Did the game not show the casting guides when you pressed right click? Some more feedback would be great if you could provide it!
Sorry, now it is working.
I didn't pick up the scroll and I thought something should happen, when I do what the tutorial page say,
ohhhh. Honestly we should have made it a little more obvious in retrospect! Thanks for coming back to give it another try!
I loved ur games and the art its ourstanding, if u want, id like to work with u guys in future jams
Wow! This rocks a whole intro animation that is like a full cartoon. So much art. I love the spell casting reminds me of Arx Fatalis. The music is cute and the whole thing has such a great vibe. The music is simple and enjoyable. My only complaint is that the platforming is a little finnicky so I'd fall off stuff a little more than I'd expect (like in the second level I had a hard time getting off the block without ending up in the pit). I am also just bad at fast multi-task platformers. The magic is so cool I would love to see this type of system in a non-puzzle game Also the UI was really clean and polished. Really impressive how much you manage to get done. (Also loved the animation the stretch when falling far was so subtle and cute).
Thanks for the kind praises I really appreciate it! That's a good point on the finnicky movement, the walking should have probably been a little less snappy to allow for more precise movements. I was also concerned about putting puzzle levels in the game because it makes it less accessible to people. Thanks again!
Please go to the game page for more info/instructions!!
This game oozes personality and is really polished! I did eventually get stuck on a puzzle I will need to come back and try to solve. BUT I loved the spell casting system, very unique. The music and art was very charming. Nice theme interpretation!
Thanks for the kind words! Which level did you get stuck on? You can also always skip levels in your options menu when you pause if you want to experience more of the game!