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About the StoryVisit a deserted dessert island! Collect magic ingredients! Learn some spells and invent new ones! Game Details
Language: English (en)
First Publication Date: May 2, 2022 Current Version: Unknown License: Freeware Development System: Custom Forgiveness Rating: Polite IFID: 72B0CE2A-RIFF-4118-BB47-EC973678B3FB TUID: 6iheo0gj8xbjz83n |
Awards
4th Place - Text Adventure Literacy Jam - 2022
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A pleasant puzzler with a complex magical language, May 6, 2022This game is, I believe, written in a custom parser that the author has used in other games. It works well here, with elegant javascript integration.
You play as an adventurer/junior magician gathering spell ingredients for you boss. The spell ingredients are all food items.
The map is laid out visually, making navigation simple. Areas vary in complexity from mostly-empty to containing multi-level structures with puzzles in each level.
The primary puzzle-solving technique is inspired by The Wand by Arthur DiBianca. You say a magic spell in your grimoire, and point your wand at something for that spell to take effect. The spell language follows patterns that you have to discover.
I haven't completely finished the game, finding only a little more than half of the ingredients on my own and 4 more with hints, but the game lets you stop at any point, and I've gotten up to an E for Exceeds Expectations.
The puzzles are rich and interesting and systematic, and vary from trivial to complex. I didn't connect on an emotional level, more just skimming the surface, but that's more due to personal taste. Overall, well-done and enjoyable.
Tough-as-nails spell-casting adventure , May 27, 2022A simple Enchanter-like magic casting adventure on an empty desert island (or dessert island, as this is a place of gingerbread cottages, cream lakes and battenburg mountains). Uses a custom parser system that works well, and presents a nice map on the right on the screen (that fills as you explore) with rich text on the left. Provides a little world-building through letters and newspaper articles scattered around. If you're not Dutch/Flemish you'll need to look up what a "smoutebol" is. A lot of fun, unfortunately it lacks any online hints, and it's pretty damn hard to boot so I didn't get very far by myself (7/16 points). On the itch.io page you can find "Slacker Sam's guide to an easy B" - but it still only gets you up to 9/16 points.
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