https://itch.io/jam/7drl-challenge-2021

https://github.com/sponrad/7drl2021

I made Arcane Island for the 2021 7DRL Challenge. 

I've wanted to do the challenge for over a decade! Arcane Island is inspired by my favorites like Dungeon Crawl and ADOM, as well as games I haven't played at all like Master of Magic (not a roguelike!) and Mage Knight (a boardgame!). 

The game was initially envisioned as more of a rome the countryside taking out villages/keeps type thing with really big spell scale, HOWEVER, my plans changed during the challenge and we ended up with a single screen island and not that much spell scale.


I worked on this from Friday March 5 to Friday March 12 and used the Godot game engine.

You control a power hungry Wizard on a monster infested island covered in clouds.

How to play

Use the cast button in the lower left to select and cast spells. Use those spells to explore the tiny island. You win by casting the Spell of Mastery or by defeating the big boss at the far east side. The wizard does not move he only uses spells.

Spells cost mana to cast and you earn mana each turn based on your power. Increase power through spells or by finding power up items.

Some spells, like summons, also have an upkeep cost which you have to pay mana for every turn.

Monsters wake up when they are attacked (at really high turn counts everything wakes up eventually)

New spells have to be researched before they can be cast, research is just an initial up front mana cost.

Commands

Z - opens/closes the spell select window

X - opens/closes the spell research window

C - recasts your last spell (also the cast button next to the spell icon will do this)

Space - Confirm for start and restart game, and initiates the selected UI item

Arrow keys - select UI items

Mouse/touch for everything else

StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5, Windows, macOS, Linux, Android
Rating
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Authorsponrad
GenreStrategy
Made withGodot
Tags4X, Seven Day Roguelike Challenge, Roguelite

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7drl-ArcaneIsland.exe.zip 14 MB
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7drl-ArcaneIsland.x86_64.zip 16 MB
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7drl-ArcaneIsland.apk 21 MB
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Comments

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This is a good game except that it sometimes generates no-win scenarios (such as NO extra power income or NO adequate offensive spells).

Also, there's a problem where summoned creatures in the north water cannot move south, and summoned creatures in the west water cannot move at all.

Finally, it would be useful to have a command to banish your current summoned creature.  It's possible to get into a situation where you can't cast anything because your summoned creature is eating exactly your mana income.

Hi Seamus,

Thanks for the feedback! You're totally right on all these points.

My thoughts wander back to this game every now and then so maybe I'll find some time to fix it up some more.

I couldn't get the character to move 😕 I tried the mouse, arrow keys, VI keys and the numpad. Not sure what the issue is.

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The wizard is stationary in it's spot and only casts spells, the summons can move around. Sorry that was unclear maybe I'll add more instructions. Thanks for trying it and letting me know!

Oh, okay. I'll give it a try again later 👍