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[jkd]

Ladies. Gentlemen.

This game is Wizard is a kinda-sorta remake of Wizard on the C64.

Development is coming along nicely, and I'm at a point where it's fully playable. I thought I'd release a build and get some feedback. The build is for Windows. XP and Vista should both work. It should run on a moderately ok computer. (Sorry Mac people, an OS X version is coming, I promise.)

Arrow Keys: Move
Spacebar: Jump
Ctrl: Use Spell (when available)
Esc: Back to Menu
Alt+F4: Quit

It auto-saves your progress. Try and get all the treasures on all levels; that's where the real challenge lies.

All feedback welcome.

http://www.brasshats.com/wizard/This_game_is_Wizard-Oct-08-2008.zip (1 MB)

[medieval]

Very interesting, quite fun too.

[bln]

Very nice game, but it's difficult to find secrets =p

[diwil]

Quite enjoyable.

This kind of reminded me of my favorite Amiga games of the old, Spherical.

Man, the hours spent on rollin' that ball...

[Cymon]

I like it.

[Cossix]

Pretty awesome puzzle-y game! Some of those levels were brilliantly asshole-ish. I've got 100% treasures in every level. I can't imagine getting 100% perfects in some of them.

[eepman]

Thanks for this game!
Got 100% perfects up to level 30ish.
More levels would be incredible.  I love the level design so far.

[Derek]

I love the graphics.  Going to give this one a go'er later!

[J. Kyle Pittman]

Awesome.  Good difficulty ramp and training.  Some of the later stages get keyboard-smashingly hard (in a good way).  Movement feels good, especially air jumping and double jumping.  I've been trying to get at least 100% treasure on every level...missed a couple, but I'm sure I'll get them eventually.

Minor gripe: I didn't actually notice there was a difference between 100% treasure and 100% perfect until I read Cossix's post.  Maybe this distinction could be made clearer somehow.

[Cymon]

How do you get perfect? I've gotten the theif bonus which I assume is for those who don't get/use the keys and still finish the level, but what's this perfect thing?

[jkd]

100% treasures means you collected all the treasures but took damage.
100% perfect means you collected all the treasures without taking damage.

And the other thing... well that's a secret. Although, I think I should probably explain why you got it, maybe on the level complete screen. "For <doing a certain something> you have received a <secret thing>!"

[rocketfactory]

Well done - good level design. I love the little tiles. And the demoscene intro is fucking rad - can't believe no one has mentioned that yet! Only thing its lacking are some SID tunes.

[Ishi]

Ace, this is what platform games are about, a set of simple mechanics used in increasingly ingenious/challenging ways. 

[Hayden Scott-Baron]

Amazing game, great work! ^_^ Very charming game in general.

(for some reason I see the treasure as cats with giant heads, but I like collecting cats)

Please hurry up with the mac version, I'd like to play this on my main machine. Runs nicely on my XP laptop though.

[thecreatrix]

Sweeet! I used to have this game on C64.

I'm gonna give it a try. 

[michael]

this game is great! very well made. it was interesting, challenging AND fun! good progression, puzzles. some games that use secrets or tricks really piss me off, but i felt that you did a very good job implementing them. i look forward to the mac version!

[Devlin]

I've 100% perfected all the levels. and got a whole load of thief badges.

That was a hell of a lot of fun to play.

I giveth this five of a possible five tigers.
 

[AuthenticKaizen]

great work!

[Guert]

I like the "rom hacker style" splash screen Nice little game you got there. Entertaining, simple and totaly retro. I don't have much to add

Good job!

[Curseman]

Fun game.  Creative designs.  It was definitely on the short side though.  I liked the levels that had more than one solution the best.  I wish there were more levels where the wizard could use his magic spells, but overall it was still definitely enjoyable.