Intense Wizardry Windows game

Thanks for replying.

I did prefer the previous builds because of how much fun it was to try out tons of different spells, and how some of the spells placed in the trees became more powerful -- but yeah, I did mostly only *use* one or two spells.

Yeah, leveling up spells might not be that great of an idea -- you're right. But what about an element system/tree? Fire, ice/frost/water, acid, lightning, physical, creature (spells that affect enemies and the player character.). This way the player can choose to specialize in the type of wizardry he likes -- perhaps the mix and match system can incorporate this, as in infusing the element of your choice into a spell.

Ie, say there's an ice spell that shoots ice shards -- infusing fire into that would make it shoot fire shards. Maybe even add the possibility of modifiers -- put the fire element spell, and a "bounce" spell into the ice shard spell, and it'd shoot fire shards that bounce off of walls and enemies.

Obviously, doing that for everything would probably be a lot of work -- but would it be possible to make an algorithm for the various spells?

Ie, you just set up the rules for what is possible - like, all, or most, or some spells are part of a few "Element" categories of your choosing, like fire, ice, etc, and a "Modifier" category of your choosing, with spells that can be combined with other elements, by automatically combining animations of the various combinations, governed by a system you set up.

For example, a fire spell might be in both the "Fire" category, and "Modifier" category, which would let you choose if you want to infuse it into another element to change it into a Fire element spell, or let it modify another element, or a different spell of the same element.

With enough spells, players could mix and match and get results that perhaps you wouldn't even expect.

Ie, assuming the requisite spells are in, a player, with some creativity, could make a spell that could slingshot an enemy into other enemies, or a spell that rotates a wire or rope around a pivot point set by the player, and catches all the enemies around it, and releases them when you push a button, or a spell that summons the animation of an element as your companion and so forth.

The tree system was incredible -- the 4 different triggers for activating a spell in the tree was a great idea, and I hope you incorporate it into your new builds. Maybe even with new triggers, modifiable triggers, unlockable triggers, and so forth.

It made finding new spells very exciting because most could be used in some way, and made it a lot of fun just trying out various spells, and perfecting your tree layout (Putting a spell in a different tree to conserve mana, etc.)

If I recall correctly, the order of activation of the different spells in a tree was from top to bottom -- depending on mana. They all cast instantly as well, I believe? I think that could be modified in some way -- to change priorities of the spells in a specific tree, or even the % of activation in specific trees.

In some Tower Defense games, you can issue commands/conditions to the towers in 3 editable categories, and I think that system could be useful in the tree system here. Like, if you have a spell that increases an enemies damage to fire, or reduces its resistance to fire in one tree, and fire spell(s) in another tree, you could tell the fire spell [mana below: 100%] - [target: enemy] - [effect: has fire debuff].

This would allow players to take advantage, or at least incentivize taking advantage of various context sensitive spells that would otherwise mostly be ignored by most players (I think.), such as debuffs, somewhat insignificant buffs, and so forth. It would let you put in lots more spells, because most spells would be used by players.

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A talent and stat tree would also be awesome - talents like increase damage of certain elements or spells, reduce mana cost of certain elements or spells, make certain elements proc (A certain chance to cast a spell for free, for example.). Statistics like Focus/Willpower, Run speed, spellcast speed, etc. would be great.

More buttons would also be great - especially for spells like the teleport. As it is, being randomly teleported back to the spot, or being randomly moved, isn't very useful in my opinion, and I think it'd be a lot more useful if you could hit a button to teleport back to the spot -- basically, more buttons, and more control.

So, for example, if a teleport/movement type of spell that you've placed in one of the trees procs, you could get a notice on the screen, or the spot could glow, and when you hit whatever button you've set in the options, you teleport back to it.

The random element (When they are placed in the trees.) sort of prevents the other teleport/movement spells from being useful, in my opinion.

Again, I'm not saying that these things would make the game better or anything, I'm merely saying that these things seem like they could be fun additions.