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• gamedeal user

  Sep 28, 2014

  "YOU'RE A WIZARD, 'ARRY!" ...c'mon, someone had to do it. TLDR summary at the bottom! Anyway, Magicmaker is a great game for anyone who ever wanted to custom-build the wizard of their dreams. A lot of games over the years have taken a stab at the idea of a customizable magic system, but so far, I've not seen it done better than Magicmaker. The idea is you are a wizard, hired by a temp agency to be a security guard. As you play, you'll collect elements, colors, and other bits that can be combined to make whatever sorts of spell you can imagine. Want to throw fireballs? Easily done. What about black hole beams that suck out someone's life? Easily done. Magic pets (or even turrets) that attack any who challenge your rule? Walk up walls, jump off the air, or just straight-up teleport? Done, done, and done. With approximately 2 MILLION possible combinations, you might be at this awhile, just experimenting with all the neat stuff you can think up! I can say without a doubt that I've found one of my favorite time-killers in Magicmaker. The art style is charming, the game mechanics are loads of fun, and there's all sorts of humorous nods throughout the game that will brighten your day. Some people will wonder about the development team, "Tasty Stewdios", since the interaction and passion of game developers is important. It's easy to see how they are by looking around the forum community: they love their fans, and love their game, and want to see the two happy together. Very responsive and passionate about their game, TS is quick to address problems with the game, consider suggestions, and speak to players like people, not numbers. -------- TLDR: Create custom spells, rack up kills, loads of fun. I made a spell that shot a magenta beam at people so hard, it ricocheted between 15 different monsters and blew them all to ash, then sucked out their soul energy to power my horrible rampage through the desert. 10/10 would wizard again.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 30, 2014

  This game is, in essence, a spell-building sandbox. The magic system is fantastic. There are forty materials to use in spells, each of which applies a different effect like poisoning, lifesteal, faster fire rate, exploding, splitting, gravitation, and LAZORS. The system works very well and it is fun to make lots of interesting spells. Obviously no system is perfect. There are some bugs, like piercing not seemingly enhancing lasers and other things. There are literally millions of combinations, so this is to be expected. The area where this game really suffers is actual gameplay. Aside from the ability to create millions of different spells, there is nothing in the game that hasn't been seen in every other side-scrolling dungeon crawler. The enemies are not very varied, and can all be defeated fairly easily with a powerful spell or two. There are five zones, each with four or five missions, so the game does not last very long. You can go back to freeplay previous zones, but the only point is to get more materials. However, the game is still in active development, and the developers comment on most of the threads in the steam discussions, so it can only get better. The spell-building system alone has tons of replay value. Making new spells and asking, "what happens when I put AoE on my turret with lasers?" is enough to play this game for a good 5-10 hours alone. Overall, if you like customizing and experimenting, this is a great game, but if you are looking for a solid dungeoncrawler platformer, look elsewhere.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 30, 2014

  This game is an absolute MUST PLAY for anyone who loves any Action, SHMUP, or RPG games. It's a fantastic lampoon on fantasy tropes whilst maintaining a rather robust magic system and randomly generated levels. I can't stress enough how good this game is. The things you can do with the magic maker system is intense: -Fill a level with a massive horde of minions. -Fire a laser that forks a bunch of times, setting everything on fire. -Wield a magic weapon that drains the health of the enemies you kill. -Fire a rock drill that that throws your enemies and poisons them... And so. much. more. Play this game. Now. Get it. It'd be a steal at twice the price.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 9, 2014

  Recommended for creative players who enjoy putting things together to see how they will react. It's a very experimental game that will surely please people who enjoy sandbox type games. Not recommended for hardcore players.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 1, 2014

  Recommended? Definitely! The amount of customization is just mindblowing. 2D Dungeon crawling has never been so much fun. If you think you'd enjoy making your very own spells with near unlimited cominations, then by all means, give it a go!
• gamedeal user

  Dec 16, 2015

  This is one of my all-time favorite PC games. This game is like playing Bubble Bobble and Shoot Many Robots with a spellcrafting/modding component, where each spell element does only one thing. You want a spell that burns things AND does extra crit damage? Then you use Fire and Artichoke. Seriously. Artichoke. This game is hilarious and devoid of esoteric combinations or synergies. And it's so great, casual and simple but with such freedom to customize that it should appeal to anyone who enjoys platformers, crafting and/or kid-friendly pictures and colors.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 1, 2016

  One of the most fun bullet-hell games I've ever played! Crafting new spells and enchantments is very rewarding because the effects are felt immediately, and I appreciate the visual cutomizations for my wizard and his spells. Everything I do in this game feels like it belongs to me. Normally games with such threat density are stressful for me, but with the wealth of options, slinging my newly-build attacks and testing out new abilities made every battle an engaging and fun time, like taking a new toy for a test-drive every level.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 25, 2016

  I actually really enjoyed this but it has some VERY major issues which near ruined it for me and would stop me from recommending it. Firstly the good points: + Great, simple gameplay. Handles well. + Making spells is a lot of fun. It's the main attraction, mixing aspects together to make ridiculous magic. + Cute visuals and character customization. + Humour But now the negatives: - Game has absolutely horrible pacing and doesn't make it clear how you should progress. -- The end of the game can come very quickly and very abruptly due to this poor pacing. - Several levels require specific spell to be equipped. End up wasting time not knowing you need to go back and make a new spell - Very unclear instructions for a lot of aspects of the game. - Can only equip 2 spells (and a wand). What's the point of making all these silly spells if you can only bring just two. - Platforming is fiddly at times.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 2, 2017

  The spellcrafting in this game is absolutely fantastic...probably the best I've ever seen. I liked playing with spellcrafting components in Morrowind, but the spellcrafting here is on a much higher level than that. Not only is the number of different underlying systems they put into combat and spellcrafting absurd, but they also kept it fairly balanced. I can't even begin to imagine the number of hours they must have put into debugging and rebalancing things to get it this polished. The artwork and music are both very fitting and well done (color palette reminded me a bit of Terraria), and the programming is absolutely fantastic. All the common bugs I'm used to seeing just aren't there. For example, in super smash bros. brawl (and many other games), if you hit someone hard enough, they can fly through solid terrain because the physics engine isn't programmed to check for collisions between the start and end points each frame. In this game, you can fly faster, and will NOT travel through terrain when you reach it. Only programming bug I can remember atm is that if you delete a saved spell while in a zone portal, you cannot see the confirmation prompt (but can still click on it). Oh, and at the end of the game after the credits, it just stays on that screen (you need to press escape and go to title screen...not obvious). Besides that stuff, there are some graphics with areas that are supposed to be transparent that are not (some look like possible texture bleeding; not sure, but one of the plant boss heads definitely has the entire background of its texture not-quite-transparent). In any case, nothing game-breaking. And the image stuff is almost unnoticeable. I'm just picky (and used to looking at dev stuff). I don't even have any reasonable suggestions for the devs besides considering multiplayer, and possibly adding to the story if they feel like. I would love to see a magic maker 2, even if it uses all the same spellcrafting components. If this game (or a sequel) had multiplayer...I would probably lose hundreds of hours in pvp. The game has a new game+(++) system (multiple playthroughs to reach true endgame equipment status). You unlock more slots each time you play through, exponentially increasing the number of unique spells you can craft each time. I think the max is 8 slots per spell; I will find out after my current playthrough. In any case, I'm off to buy copies of this game for most of my friends, because I thought it was just that good. The rest of this is just notes in case devs see this and are considering adding pvp at some point... A few things would need rebalancing for a pvp mode to work. Your damage output is far higher than your damage taken as it stands, so you would die too quickly...unless you had 100% damage reduction, which you can do (literal invincibility...while holding still, combined with 100% knockback prevention), which would also need to be fixed. Hmm...you might still be able to die due to execution and other status effects? Not sure. In any case, some significant number tweaking would be necessary, but I don't think any of the actual game mechanics would need to be changed (besides adding a networking system...which I know is a nightmare).
• gamedeal user

  Jan 5, 2017

  This game is massively underated, and even more underplayed. This is a true hidden gem.