Charmcaster
You are a wizard trapped in a strange series of puzzle boxes. Cast your magic charms to collect the shards in each puzzle box and warp out of them so you can collect the precious Victorious Charm. Be deliberate though, for you can only use each charm so many times. Escape all 10 puzzle boxes to become a master charmcaster. Note: you cannot dash through water. This is intentional though admittedly odd.
Made for Winter MelonJam 2023 in (sort of) 72 hours. We are taking the 3 hour late submission period after the jam, forfeiting prizes.
How to Play:
WASD/arrow keys - by default, consumes movement charms to move 1 cell at a time. if you just used a rotate charm, your next input changes your direction (indicated by the white arrow) without changing your position.
To cast any charm except Movement Charm and Shard of Victory (green), click on it in the inventory on the right side. Certain charms require mouse input - after you confirm that you want to use them, your next mouse click will serve as the input. The Dash and Wall Push charms are dependent on the direction you are facing at the time of casting, so make sure to check that you're facing the right direction before you cast them.
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Good job on the game. I think the soundtrack and aesthetic match for a solitaire and calming puzzle game. The concept is simple but i see potential to create more puzzles and mechanics. Congrats on making it!
Some things that happened to me that could be improved
There is no indication you can click the charms in the right column to use them, so i got stuck for a while trying to press buttons on my keyboard. Once I kinda found out, I got stuck in the level with the water tile. I can't seem to use the dash charm to go through it, maybe it's a bug? :(
Wanted to see more puzzles but I guess I can't figure out how to go through water haha
A side note, the buttons for restart and return to menu are a little obtuse, I tried to use the 'arrow' icon button to reverse a move and I was sent back to the menu and was very sad. And there is a huge delay between clicking them and the action happening, so you feel like something went wrong or the button didn't do anything.
A feedback for the direction would be to have the arrow directly in the character's foot or head. At first I thought the arrow was a button or something I could interact in the HUD
Hi, thanks for playing :D
For the dash charm, you can't use it to cross water, but you can use it to dash through walls (maybe try pushing the wall over the water block...?).
And yeah, I agree that there could have been some clearer direction with the UI, and more labels and indicators and such :/ but we kinda ran out of time haha
Hmm I see, so I think it was a bad choice of 'metaphor' for the dash. If the dash can go through walls, why can't it go through water? I is a bit misleading and the charm explanation didn't remove my wrong assumption that the dash would go through the water. It just looked like a bug?
Might try it again later to see more levels
Yeah, I understand the time issue! Haha, just pointing out as a constructive feedback, hope it helps
on second level, got stuck at far right bottom left corner and then was not able to move
Press the restart button at the top right. You ran out of movement charms. You must find a more efficient solution.