All the magical things

[Gepard]

---ALL THE MAGICAL THINGS---


This is a non-adventure game created in AGS.

It has some RPG elements, but it is basically a card game (or a turn-based game if you want). You play as a magician who wants to conquer the land using dark spells and creatures. You gain experience as you go and there are also some other elements that the player might like.

However I am afraid it is necessary for a player to read the included manual (yeah I know) to know how to play the game, so please do so before you write about how difficult is it to play the game.







DOWNLOAD: http://www.filehosting.org/file/details/71948/AMT.rar

I would like to thank to Crimson Wizard for being my only real beta tester (kaputtnik deserves a credit too LOL).

[Crimson Wizard]

Hey! you released it 
And I was just going to return to my beta-testing, cause I finally found time. Hopefully no serious bugs there anymore.

By the way, last time I played I progressed only to capture second village (that is - having 3 villages if count the one you have at start).

[Gepard]

Dont worry. I can always upload a new version. Thx a lot btw.

[kaputtnik]

Hey, uhm...Thanks for the credit! I did test one full day and then kind of forgot about it while you were visiting the spring of rejuvenation, or what was it? Great to see this is finished, though!

[Helme]

Sorry, for not beeing useful as a beta-tester.

[blueskirt]

Cool game, got as far as conquering a town and a castle before an immortal, a wizard and a dragon came knocking at my door on the same day. Bastards being jealous of my fame!

For some reasons it was impossible for me to scroll up and down in the window where you cast green spells, it could have been because there was no other spells to cast but a couple times after I bought a permanent green spell it was immediatly replaced by new spell, which made me think I could cast more than 8 spells but the scrolling buttons didn't work.

Also, after a while the game become incredibly slow, the cursor starts to lag, and clicking works once every 2 or 3 clicks. Going in 320x200 resolution lowered the speed at which it became slow and saving the game once every while made the game smooth again, but none of these solutions solved the problem permanently.

Anyway, nice game, keep up the good work!

[Gepard]

Thanks a million. Im really glad someone actually played it AND liked it :f )

[bluber2009]

It is not very intuitive.

[blueskirt]

I played it again this morning, couldn't conquer any new towns but I got a tiny bit further. Unfortunately I stumbled on some sort of game stopping bug, as soon you reach the rank of Wizard, studying blue or green magic no longer increase your mana and you're pretty much game over from that moment.

Another glitch I found is when you buy the spikes for your tower (-30 gold, +5 attack), another spike icon will appears in the shop. So if you buy the spikes 4 times, there will always be 5 spikes icons in the shop.

Another way you could improve the interface would be to put a "Steal" button on the merchant event as soon as you buy the book, this way you wouldn't have to go in the inventory everytime you want to use the book. The same thing could be done with the holy spear.

I think I'll stop playing the game for now, since the green spell scrolling bar issue and the Wizard rank bug are real game stopper but I'll keep an eye on this thread in case you manage to correct these bugs because it's a really nice game and I'd really like to finish it.

[Gepard]

Well well well... I must say you pretty much went as far as possible in this game. You can conquer all the cities if you want and watch a short outro, but the wizard rank is the last one you can achieve. Btw. did you create a creeper too?

I uploaded a fixed version of the ATM: http://www.filehosting.org/file/details/71948/AMT.rar

[blueskirt]

No, no creeper yet. I guess I need to buy more spare body parts but there's always more interesting stuff to buy, when it's not castle upgrades, I buy skeleton mercenaries or something else. It's good to know Wizard is the last rank, monsters were getting pretty insane around the end. I'll give this second version a try.

[discordance]

I just had a poke around and it looks like a heck of a lot of work went into this game -- I'm impressed. Unfortunately I can't view the manual. Some kind of graphics conversion issue. Would it be possible to upload a pdf version?

[blueskirt]

I finished the game!

The bad news is when I got to Wizard level, I still had that bug where I couldn't study to get mana. I accidentaly managed to get around the bug one time, but it only lasted for one day. The good news is I didn't mess around this time, by the time I reached Wizard level, I had 3 villages, 2 forts and the biggest castle of the valley under my control. I was drowning under gold and all I had to do was buying blue mana pills and use the balance spell to duplicate all that mana and kill anything that opposed me. Conquering the remaining town and castles was a piece of cake.

I tried to use the creeper, but only at the end of the game, and by that time it was not very useful, always getting killed after every fight. For the 10 gold required to revive this 5 attack/15 defence creature, it was more effective to buy 20 blue mana pills and convert them into 20 attack with the Balance/Laws of Nature spell combo, or buying 3 health potions if I needed defence. Also, was there a way to change the stats of your creeper after its creation? To improve them when your food stocks are big enough to support a big creature or decrease them in case you simply can't feed it?

Anyway, great game!

[Gepard]

Yes, there was this possibility. You could not only improve your creepers strength but also gain some new abilities for it like look for food or kill the enemy instantly etc. Im sorry for the bug. I only fixed the button on the desk, therefore if you click on the desk and then on the book button you gain mana. Didnt fix the shortcuts though Thanks anyway for playing and for your feedback.

[Rocco]

please use another filehoster, this one sucks completly. 
I had 30 min and want to try this game, but after i entered my emailadress (which i dont like to do, cause im afraid of spam)
nothing happens.

[Matti]

I uploaded the game here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VZX9QD9E&setlang=en

Hope, that's okay, Gepard 

[Gepard]

It sure is. As I said before. Im in China now, so its hard with the internet sometimes. thanks

[Matti]

I played a bit and generally like the idea of the game. But I think the menu/GUI structure is unnecessarily complicated. Okay, there are hotkeys for most most of the stuff but imo the game would benefit from simpler gameplay.

Oh, and a happy b-day, Gepard.