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MAGEUS
(code name) Specification of Mageus GameMageus is an adventurous game settled in a fabulous, full of magic fantasy world. The place of action is inhabited with a creatures living in harmony with nature.
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activities of this magic land’s residents are breeding sheep, building,
cultivating and outputting minerals. Our hero, from the early childhood has
been interested in magic and recently started studying magic with one of the
greatest wizards - Yoghurt. Game is made up of 30 levels settled in 6 worlds. At each level player must manage with some tasks, deal with some problems or overcome some difficulties to get to next part of the game. All tasks are interesting, unique and closely connected with adventures of our hero. All tasks were designed in a special way – to end a task you must co-operate with other characters, which you have come across and you must think in a constructive way. Script is designed in a way which makes the game interesting and can easily draw player into the game. Also the player cannot easily foresee events in the future. To make sure that all tasks are not too difficult we placed appropriate hints at each level, which may help to overcome any difficulties. Authors of the script tried to avoid these tasks which requires to collect some objects or demands to kill some amount of enemies etc. This kind of tasks makes adventures boring and they do not develop player’s imagination. To make the plot more varied Mageus contains elements of action as well. In the game occur a lot of creatures, which use different techniques of fighting. They can use magic as well as conventional weapon to defeat enemies, unarmed combat is also possible. |
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To make the game more interesting it’s possible to use weapon as well as traps or other tricks to defeat enemies. Good example for defeating enemy without using any weapon is level 6. In this part of the game we come across a frog with steel skin. To defeat it we need to find a piece of meat and then soak it with poison. If we feed the steel frog with this poisoned meat it will feel sick and after that frog’s magic power will be more and more weaken, so it won’t be able to guard the entrance. Another example is level 24 where player meets wild beast captured in a cage. If it’s free it can easily tear into pieces any other creatures including guards who are standing next to gate. Not every mysterious tasks must be solved to end the game. The player can sometime decide about the way of solving and order of tasks Player on his way comes across over 20 different creatures. He can co-operate with it or he can also change its behaviour. Some time he has to defeat it. Player must be prepared to face enemies who are called the rulers of levels. In the whole game player comes across over 180 objects and creatures. There is also a possibility to use a few different vehicles. Player has an opportunity to use a raft or for example to run a coach. Also there is a vehicle resembling a tank, which can be used by remote control. It has a cannon and may be useful for breaking a thick wall to make an entrance. Script refers to RPG. Level 19 is a good example for adaptation of RPG elements. In this level player comes across magic gates, which can be opened only by creatures from another world. To deal with this problem he has to find a spell, which allows him to change himself into a creature from other lands. Another example is level 10 where is a miner, who has special ability to plant bombs and he is the only person who can cause its explosion. The game also contains suprising turns of action. In 16th level player meets evil magician Cadabrus for the first time. He gains very strong magic which can secure him for Cadabrus magic. But the power of evil magician turns out to be too strong and after hitting a magic bullet player is being moved to parallel world. Convenient, intuitive system of icons allows to operate objects easily, it allows for player’s interaction with environment also. Authors of this project believes that system of game control is rather easy to operate and there is no need to check anything in instructions. Broad possibilities of interaction with environment and opportunities of operating objects are presented with the help of legible icons. Thanks to this solution we have avoided creation of multilevel menu ( as it is e.g. in Pokemon). Flexible script language allows to shape freely the behaviour of creatures in the game. Opportunity of interaction between creatures and background allows to create easily sequences of animation. Sequences of animation can stay (or not) in interaction with behaviour of the main creature directed by player. In Mageus we have also applied unique solutions for animation of level’s map. Thanks to this solution player has an opportunity to change fragments of map. We find good example in 22 level, where player comes across a huge container filled with water. He has to empty it to get to another part of city. Of course there is a possibility of animation every cube of graphics, as it is in other programs. For each world we designed original and careful graphics. Our designers put an effort to create locations which are interesting and not monotonous. To have large number of colours at creatures in our game we have applied special technique of joining sprite’s. The game Mageus gives more than 18 hours of great fun. Thanks to diversity of the script game gives users a lot of emotion and sensation.
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