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Our little game jam game Sorcell's Spectacular Spell got a big content update! ๐
We originally developed this in three days for the Cozy Fall Jam 2023, and this update had been in the works for over a year ๐
I finally took the time and added the finishing touches over the easter weekend!
It's a short and simple mini-statraiser/resource-management game about helping a wizard train for a magic competition. We worked on it as a team of eight and it has adorable art and a completely original soundtrack!
The update added more CGs, more events, a reworked minigame and a revised script + lots of bug fixes and quality of life stuff.^^
Playing it from beginning to end should take no longer than half an hour~
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Finished, what an adorable little game. Short, too. I have a lot of long games I'm juggling so it just feels good to have a game I can say I just completed.
Your main character art is adorable. But these little guys caught my attention too.
Aww!
At first I thought "okay, he's eating only fish? Wouldn't that get boring for him?" (I say, as someone who eats rice daily and loves it, albeit I'm no fish fan so I'm probably not aware of the diversity of his culinary options.) Just now, I realized part of his wizard hat is designed to look like a fish. Oh. Okay. That makes sense.
I liked the little concentration minigame, and just when I thought I'd mastered it and was maybe getting tired of it you added new phrases to find, that I think were added midway through the level, which was a very cool move that resparked my interest and made me not bored with it again. I only wish that when you think you have found everything, you can click to end the level: I spent a bit of time clicking off the game and typing stuff here in this lil review/feedback waiting for the timer to bleed down. Somehow I feel I could hand this game to a 7 year old to try to teach them about decision-making in the face of uncertainty, and about the very very basics of how you are supposed to concentrate to learn on stuff (different and more advanced strategies become necessary with different problems or health conditions). I don't mean that as an insult, it's just a cute friendly game that happens to be child-appropriate and to have at least a mild attempt at good messaging about focus and concentration.
spoiler for the game
and him shrinking his mustache... usually I don't like facial hair on men but that added to his charm as a cute little chibi. He totally turned otome love interest in that final CG when he wins :P What a fun final spell, by the way. And when he was going to shrink an important body part it may make me a bad person to have thought, in this overall very wholesome game, that he was going to shrink his penis lol.Nice job to the team, and you for programming!
Finally, I should probably recommend posting on [email protected]
Ahhh thank you for taking your time to write a proper review for it!! ;v; The team is very grateful for you feedback!
We definitely learned a bit about UI design in this one^^ The minigame has that weird issue where the timer seems to run a lot slower in the web version. If you download it, you'll notice that it's actually a little more challenging to beat. I'll have to investigate that ๐ค
Also, I've also mentioned it in another comment in a crosspost, but rightclicking should solve the History screen issue (same for the Save screen) It's a shortcut for showing and hiding game menus!
Also, yes that surprise moment in the good ending is very much intended to have that effect, hehe ๐คญ
I checked some of your itch reviews and found it very funny that someone complained about the adding phrases midway when I praised it. Different strokes for different folks!
Oh I almost forgot! Now that you've mentioned the twist at the ending, I can show you how that actually came to be, there's even a video