Hey everybody! I’m Diego Ordoñez, a lead programmer at Rubber Duck Games. Our humor-filled motion RPG Evil Wizard is out now on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One and I needed to provide you a behind-the-scenes take a look at the sport and the way it got here to be!
The Beginning
When beginning to work on Evil Wizard, I needed to create a sport that had humor and humorous moments all through the sport. Additionally, I at all times felt very intrigued by characters that use magic like mages and wizards. The idea of magic is nice from a story perspective as a result of it permits the designer to create the principles wanted for the gameplay or story to make sense. Finally, I needed to have a hook, one thing modern I may use to shut all the pieces collectively. I made a decision to go along with a twist and inform the story about what occurs to a ultimate boss after he’s been defeated. This setting gave me the chance to discover humor otherwise. Every gamer has performed a sport through which the protagonist is a hero and has to defeat an evil wizard. Because of this, I felt gamers would instantly comprehend the setting of the sport and the context of the story.
Finding the Humor
Once the setting was fleshed out, I began writing jokes within the kind of dialogues between the characters. These may be discovered all through the complete sport. The Evil Wizard makes enjoyable of the NPCs, enemies chat with different enemies in humorous cinematics, and there are situations when the Evil Wizard talks straight with the participant. Breaking the fourth wall was at all times fascinating to me and the online game medium affords a really distinctive approach to do that for the reason that participant is controlling the protagonist.
As we began manufacturing, we discovered humor in different elements of the sport along with dialogue. Ruben Gómez was in cost of the aesthetics of the sport and he occurs to be a really humorous man as properly. He carried out loads of humorous moments all through the sport within the kind of environmental artwork and collectables. These may be present in nearly each stage within the sport, like having hanging underwear on the roof of the fort, work of the Evil Wizard with popular culture characters, and loads of rubber duck collectables referencing popular culture characters that we all know and love.
Additionally Pablo Pérez, our pixel artwork animator, did a beautiful job of creating humorous animations with enemies and NPCs. These are in all places, from the idea artwork (like a chef that assaults by swinging a frying pan with crimson sizzling chili peppers) to the way in which most enemies die.
But What About Action?
When growing Evil Wizard, we knew we wanted to provide gamers a superb motion RPG that complemented the humor and setting of the sport. We needed to develop a superb fight system and exploration design for the gamers that didn’t discover Evil Wizard very humorous. We began by making fight a centerpiece of the sport. This is one other pillar of the sport and comes within the kind of big bosses, non-obligatory mini-bosses, a really broad system of spells and components, and melee fight with threat and reward methods. Taking inspiration from different motion RPGs and metroidvanias, we made the complete world an intertwined fort of totally different rooms that the participant must discover to succeed in the ultimate stage. We crammed the degrees with secrets and techniques, puzzles, random fight encounters, and humorous cinematics to stability the expertise between fight, exploration, and humor. Gonzalo Banki Martínez, our producer, managed most of the preliminary design of the fort rooms. Each room has a setting; the fort patio, the armory, the lab, the dungeon, and extra. We made a number of connections between these rooms so gamers can discover secrets and techniques whereas exploring and defeat non-obligatory mini-bosses which might be hidden all through the map.
In Conclusion
I hope that you just benefit from the bizarre world of Evil Wizard and we’d love to listen to from you about your expertise. Get able to play the unhealthy man for a change! As half of a particular launch promotion, you should buy Evil Wizard for 10% off till June 1, 2023! Stay Evil!
Evil Wizard(Xbox)
E-Home Entertianment Development Co., Ltd
$19.99
$17.99
“There are songs that still tell the tale of the heroes’ most daring deeds. After a long battle against the Evil Wizard, the castle he called home was sieged and swarmed and the wretchful minions that served him for generations were slain by the dozens. While the corrupt villain himself managed to escape, the day marked an amazing victory for the forces of good…”
Or did it, actually?!
Evil Wizard is a humor-filled motion RPG that includes metroidvania components and thoroughly crafted pixel-art environments. As a defeated villain who barely survived a tricky battle, you’ll must face a military of so-called heroes to get well what’s rightfully yours. Rediscover your powers, infiltrate your individual fort, unleash devastating spells, and purge your ancestral dwelling of these depressing excuses for an enemy. Are you able to get your fingers soiled? It’s time to be the unhealthy man for a change!
GAMEPLAY FEATURES:
● A quest fueled by revenge- Face off towards hordes of enemies, keep away from lethal traps, and resolve difficult puzzles as you reclaim the halls of your fort from the heroes that now reside inside it!
● Metroidvania-inspired Design – Explore carefully-crafted areas and navigate intricate ranges. Use your abilities and components to work together with the in-game world and unlock new paths.
● High-Paced Skill-based Combat – Deal devastating melee blows, unlock earth-shattering spells and sprint across the map to crush your foes. You’ll be in full management of each battle!
● Elements and forces To Master – Control the ability of hearth, ice, void, lightning, and earth. Mix numerous components to unleash devastating assaults and exploit your enemies’ weaknesses!
● Unique Enemies and Boss Fights – Fine-tune your character to defeat more and more tougher enemies. Choose amongst dozens of upgrades as you get able to vanquish an array of bosses, every with their very own abilities and fight fashion!
% We suggest taking part in the sport on the Xbox Series X|S %
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