Parallelity
The authenticity of elements depends on the reality in which they are present. That is a very unfortunate fact for you because your enemies know this too. You could easily crush any single one of them, but those cowards banded together, managed to trap you, relentlessly bombard you and channel their powers to change the very fabric of reality around you to throw you off your guard.
Luckily, you have your trusty potions on you at all times: the Healing potion, Mana rejuvenation, Poison and Mana leech. Whether they'll work in other realities just as you are used to is up to you to find out.
Controls
Best on Xbox controller (match colours)
Movement:
- WASD / ←↑→↓ / Left Controller Stick
Potion usage:
- Red potion 1 / B
- Green potion 2 / A
- Yellow potion 3 / Y
- Blue potion 4 / X
The effect of potions are changing during the game. What heals you can be a poison now.
Use your deduction to master the game!
About
Authenticity is rooted in the environment in which it is located. The fact that the grass is green and the sky is blue comes from the fact that we are on Earth, in our environment, in the history that the Earth has experienced. In this game, we played with the idea of different, parallel worlds, for which different rules may apply than those we have experienced in games. The arrow to the right does not always mean running forward. The main idea of this game has become a change of environment, which disrupts the authenticity of experienced, basic game mechanics.
Story
Story-wise, the game captures a ring of wizards that are trying to stop the grey wizard by knocking him out of the world with their magical powers. You are the grey wizard and you defend yourself by dodging fireballs and sending out your own fireballs, which you use to shoot down the dangerous ones. As a proper wizard, you need mana to cast spells. Just like life, you recharge in a classic way - by drinking a potion. However, these elite wizards are no slouches and with their magics, they nicely complicate the last seconds of life by changing the very fabric of reality around you into parallelity.
There, the known rules of the world no longer apply. Water is no longer water, poison is no longer poison, and what heals you can kill you now. Even movement becomes difficult for you and more and more fireballs are rushing to erase your existence in this world. How long can you withstand them? Will you survive their attack?
You know - THOSE FREAKIN FIREBALLS!!!!!! :D
Credits
Adam Štulík: Music and sound design
Lukáš Kurilla (kurilluk): Game design, Art, Programming
Šimon Jajko (ProPotato): Gameplay, Programming
Filip Skála: Game design, Art, Tester
Comments
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I like the concept of the game, really hard to understand what is responsible for what and it's fun to play, but I didn't get it:
1) why there are two more orange and green potions
2)can the player win or not(because I set a record of 300 seconds(it's a lot but I was just standing in the corner and spamming a cure potion, so this is a trick:)) and didn't win)
3)why do we shoot if we don't see the enemies
Thanks for the game!
Thank you for your comment.
1. As we mentioned in the text "Water is no longer water, poison is no longer poison, and what heals you can kill you now." This is the reaction to the topic of authenticity. The effect of the potions also changes during the game based on environments - parallel worlds/realities. Maybe it was not clear. We hope, that we decrypted it better in controls now. Thanks for that.
2. No, grey magic has to be defeated ;) (we know about the possibility of cheating in the corner, but more fun is to practice and try to master the game. I did more than 1k this morning and it was fun and great brain training for adaptation. We also lowered the difficulty of the game for better practising, but it can be really tough if needed.)
3. You can shoot other fireballs which are trying to hit you.
Thanks for playing it!
Freezes after starting.
Sorry, we knew that. We weren't able to solve this issue during JAM time. It seems that particles or sounds are loading in the game, which causes this freezing for a few seconds or less. After that, the game is running smoothly and you can enjoy unlimited times of beginnings without any freezing.