Sophie’s Witch Game

What?

If you have been following my twitter, you already know this, but I’ve been working on this lately, and you can now buy it. go here.

The game is still in development, and I will be adding to the price as I add to the game.

I’ll use this blog here to post updates and news about the game, since I barely use this blog enough otherwise 😉 I’ll probably post every wednsday (since alliterative indie blog updates are all the rage what with Marian Mondays, Fez Fridays and now Witch Wednesdays), also Wednesdays are named for Odin, and Odin is a total dude.

What the game is aiming to be:

A few people have asked me to describe what the game will be when it is done, which is ambiguous since the game’s page only really lists future features. SO THEN! You will play as a witch, who is relatively new at being a witch. she has recently moved into the ‘original’ witches house, that borders the human world (Earth) and the magical world. witches being the only things of course that can enter both worlds. Our witch wakes one morning to find that the human world has been STOLEN! probably by one of her witch housemates, and is likely being taken to the bottom of their basement (which just so happens to be the huge magical world) to be sacraficed for evil bad stuff. So, our witch makes the hero’s choice and sets off into the basement to save the world!

buuuut its not going to be easy, hundreds of procedurally generated dungeons, caves, mountainsides, abandoned ancient cities and the like are between our witch and her destiny, and they are filled with all sorts of nasty things that want only to hurt her. She must learn new spells and craft new items to become strong enough to fight the monsters deeper in to the magical realm. as well as rescue her more trustworthy witch housemates for help along the way.

as well as this ‘story mode’, I shall be adding a suvival mode, with an infinite amount of dungeons with ever stronger enemies,in this mode the challenge is to get as deep as possible before you finally die, and this mode will have permadeath (if you die, no respawning, I may even have it delete the save data in that slot!)

gameplay wise, if you can imagine diablo, spelunky, and a sickeningly cute j-rpg all had a magnificent three-way and an even more magnificent baby, which is now in it’s rebelious teen phase and wants to be a shoot-em-up, that’s what I’m going for.

What about Sarah’s Run, when will that be ready?

I don’t know, but I do know it would take me longer to finish than my witch game, and I’m not at the point where I am happy to sell it yet, and frankly my financial situation is I need to be making some money right now, I enjoy working on both games, but for the time-being, my witch game is taking prority, Sarah’s Run is next on my to-do list, I have some wicked things planned for it 🙂

again, heres the link to my witch game, theres a free browser preview by the way 🙂