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Disco Wizard is a 2D, top down, arcade, bullet hell type shoot em up created for Android. The game loosely incorporates themes of Disco and Magic to add a twist to the more prominent technological aircraft shooters.
Unlike other bullet hell type games, the player faces off against a single antagonist which powers up over time unlike the player who in this game is unable to power up. The power up that the enemy goes through over time is additive, so eventually the sole antagonist evolves to become the bullet hell.
This game’s focus is not about winning, but about the player prolonging their inevitable death and achieving a high score.
Narrative
Our glam rock hero protagonist, Randi Krash, is locked in an eternal battle with the evil Disco Wizard. Randi is always doomed to lose. Despite this, he continues to fight with the wizard forever, in an attempt to end his 10,000 year reign of disco terror.
Basic Controls
The player controls their hero via touch input, the player's character will move relative to how the player moves their finger across their device's touch screen. The player's character will automatically shoot their projectile in a straight upwards direction, so the player needs only to focus on evading bullets and trying to hit the enemy. The enemy (The Disco Wizard) will power up over time but the player can stall the enemy from powering up by hitting them with their projectile. The player can only score points by hitting the enemy with their projectiles.
Extra:
Touching the screen with 3 fingers will open up a Pattern Editor, this allows the player to create their own kinds of patterns that the game will use to illuminate the disco floor background.
Credits:
Lucky (Roman) - Project Lead - Programmer
Shawn - Programmer
Shien - Programmer
Aeisha - Artist
This game was created in 3 weeks as a project contributing to the partial completion for our Bachelor of Games Development Degree at SAE Qantm.
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