Mayhem is my PICO-8 remake of Julian Gollop's 1985 masterpiece: Chaos Battle of Wizards. It is a game I have tried and failed to make many times, but it looks like maybe this time was the charm! I did not blindly remake the original game. Instead, I have taken heavy inspiration from it while trying to make it my own.
This is the first fully playable beta release (v1.0.0b1). Unfortunately, I ran out of tokens for adding AI players, but you should be able to have some hot-seat fun with a friend or three.
Changes:
- 2020/08/22 (v1.0.0b1):
- First completely playable version of the game.
- Hot seat only (I ran out of tokens to do AI as well).
- 2020/07/27:
- Walking & flying movement.
- Primitive combat (attacker always wins for now for easy testing).
- Winner screen.
- Iterated a few times on selection and movement look & feel.
- 2020/07/17:
- Initial work on the main game - turn structure outlined.
- 2020/07/14:
- Added Balrog
- Added Imp
- Tweaks for Pegasus and Wraith
- 2020/07/11:
- Added title screen with logo text.
- Added bestiary mode to test sprite identifiability.
- Changed initial mode into the showcase, showing all sprites for one player.
- Some small sprite tweaks based on feedback.
- 2020/07/10:
- Good tree
- Evil tree
- Neutral tree
- Dark tower
- Fortress
- Gooey blob
- 2020/07/09:
- Crocodile
- Gorilla
- Lion
- Zombie
- Wraith
- Ghost
- Vampire
- Horse
- Pegasus
- Unicorn
- Dragon
I did the identification game for you.
On the eagle, "crow" was also an option and I picked the wrong bird.
The vampire was a complete guess, but I happened to get it right.
Overall, the sprites are well-designed and easy to identify, but orcs, balrogs and imps are kind of difficult to identify since every fantasy work has a different definition or design for them.
Thank you very much for the feedback!
I'll try to think of some better alternatives for the ones that are ambiguous - there are a few of them. The Balrog was my solution to not being able to do three different dragons in 8x8, but I might have to try another idea like a Beholder instead.
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