Wizards Gone Wild by Lizzip

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made by Lizzip for LD30 (JAM)
Controls:

L - Switch active wizard/world
K - Fire magic bolt (you can hold down the key, don't wear your finger out mashing)
A/D or LEFT/RIGHT - Movement
SPACE or UP - Jump
F5 - Restart

Aim:

Survive to wave 10 by killing the enemies. The wizards have a shared health pool, so if one dies it's game over.

The inactive wizard cannot shoot and is shaded, but he can still take damage. Through the game you need to switch to the wizard who is most at risk and defend yourself.

Story:
We forgot to actually describe the story, but it's one evil wizard who has split himself in two with the intent of destroying the Ice and Fire worlds.

He has planted a magical device in both worlds, which you spend the game defending. The waves of mobs are trying to kill the wizards and disable the devices, but we ran out of time before putting this all in

Tools:

Created using PlayCanvas, MilkyTracker and Paint.NET
Made by @Auroraimortalis and @LizzipFish

Ratings

Coolness 45% 1426
Overall(Jam) 3.12 453
Audio(Jam) 2.67 511
Fun(Jam) 3.08 356
Graphics(Jam) 3.17 468
Humor(Jam) 2.58 307
Innovation(Jam) 3.21 278
Mood(Jam) 2.79 551
Theme(Jam) 3.75 103

Feedback

OathAlliance
26. Aug 2014 路 00:03 UTC
Wow, that's really hard, but fun!

Good job and an interesting concept too.
Rehacked
26. Aug 2014 路 00:09 UTC
hi why i cant replay and why there is a collision with enemy when he is above me ? good job
馃帳 Lizzip
26. Aug 2014 路 05:24 UTC
Thanks Oath!

Rehacked: when an enemy is above you he can still reach you to do damage. And we didn't get around to putting in the ability to restart, you just have to reload the page I'm afraid (which is rubbish, I know)
CrefossusJam
26. Aug 2014 路 07:23 UTC
I liked the fade out/darkness depending on which side you are on. The ice guy shouldn't spawn near you. There needs to be more feedback when you're getting hit as I didn't understand it at first. Nice particles and graphics/animations.

However, the fire seems like it would hurt the ice guy, but it doesn't matter. Once I found out about auto-repeat shooting that made the game a lot more fun. Fun game and fairly polished overall..gj!
ivanhlb
26. Aug 2014 路 07:45 UTC
It's a simple concept, not too shabby.
Haha btw are the wizards twins?
oranebeast
26. Aug 2014 路 08:26 UTC
Interesting and fun conecept
馃帳 Lizzip
26. Aug 2014 路 09:03 UTC
Thanks ivanhlb, oranebeast.

We forgot to actually describe the story, but it's one evil wizard who has split himself in two with the intent of destroying the Ice and Fire worlds.

He has planted a magical device in both worlds, which you spend the game defending. The waves of mobs are trying to kill the wizards and disable the devices, but we ran out of time before putting this all in :P
hexagore
26. Aug 2014 路 11:45 UTC
This is so hard. Love it :)
BeardoGames
26. Aug 2014 路 18:05 UTC
A fun time! Good execution of a split screen concept like this. Nice!
Literal Games
27. Aug 2014 路 10:12 UTC
A pretty good game with a nice use of the theme! The difficulty was spot on, so well done with that. Jumping physics seemed a little jumpy but that could just be me. Great job!
KuGrou
27. Aug 2014 路 20:10 UTC
Cool idea, and I like the art. The fire effects look nice, but at first I thought it would hurt me since it didn't look like it was in the background.
pjimmy
01. Sep 2014 路 11:51 UTC
nice, well done
PaperBlurt
02. Sep 2014 路 10:26 UTC
There's something lonely about these wizards...
01101101
04. Sep 2014 路 15:30 UTC
really fun but hard but fun but hard :P Several background would have been great, well done!
tiff
06. Sep 2014 路 00:23 UTC
Holy hard, Batman! Still a lot of fun though and I love the way you used the theme! :)
MaesK
08. Sep 2014 路 20:30 UTC
A little bit too difficult, but interesting. Might improve with a better position for spells, like Z/X instead of L/K, for example. Nice contrast between fire and ice.
sbarrio
08. Sep 2014 路 20:45 UTC
Beat the whole 10 waves :) I liked the idea and had fun playing it, but the music was really annoying after a while.

Great job!
Jupiter_Hadley
16. Sep 2014 路 03:45 UTC
Cool game! I included it in part 29 of my Ludum Dare 30 compilation video series, if you鈥檇 like to take a look :) http://youtu.be/dd4UkBLKHXI