IROG'S PROFILE

The greatest advantage of hobby game dev is that you can make the game you want. You don't have to build a commercial product to please the largest audience and make your game profitable. Feel free to experiment!

I'm probably an unusual dev among RMN devs because I like to code game directly from a programming language (C) and build new engine for each of my projects. MinST is a turn based strategy game on hexagonal grid. Pong10H is an homage to the classic Pong, coded in 10 hours. Red Balloon of Happiness is a light horror exploration game. Wizard apprentice Lya is a top-donw shooter with terrain alterations.

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Thanks El_WaKa!

I'm glad you enjoyed the demo. Yes, the fast pink spell is a lot fun to use and both the attract and repel spells make enemy projectiles fly in all directions (damaging anyone including the shooter).

There is no difficulty setting ("I want to learn magic" starts a new game. "I know some spells" loads a saved game but isn't available yet so it starts a new game. "Elemental control" lets you configure your control keys. "I want to be a warrior" quits the game as you don't want to play with magic). Are these text lines confusing? Should I change them?

The current movement system has a major flaw that reduces Lya's speed to 0 as soon as she touches any obstacle. This severely reduces your ability to doge, probably leading to excessive difficulty.

"Shoot at the cursor location" is something I need for puzzles and to give the ability to freeze precise water tiles to build bridges (or destroy them with fire). The current demo lacks a tutorial to explain that feature and to show that the best way to hit an enemy is to shoot behind it. You had to learn this the hard way while facing any enemies. Do you think you (and other players) could get use to this feature if a tutorial explains that you should shoot behind the enemy?

My demo is up. The movement system isn't as good as I wanted: Lya's momentum turn to 0 each time she hits an obstacle. The demo is very short. At the end you receive all the spells under development. This includes all 4 spells described on the game page plus 2 extras: one that repels and one that attracts projectiles (handy to hit enemies with their own projectiles).