Arcane Assembly

ideia interessante pra quem já brincou com Scratch mas peca muito na execução

Story is a little lacking, but that's not a bad thing. Essentially, your father is a mage and left on an expedition. He never came back. You have to go find him, and you also recover some villagers of the nearby town while you are at it. The bossfights are interesting, the skill ceiling is high, and the skill floor is high enough to beat the game on an easier difficulty pretty enjoyably. Would absolutely recommend!

I love this game, I know nothing about coding but the built in journal helped explain everything very well, i have wanted a game just like this for years and this game finally scratches that itch. I wish there was a little more in game lore to discover to explain the story and overall itd be cool to see the spells you create in action more. it would also be nice to have a way to test spells in a controlled setting.

Very Innovative gameplay. Needs some time to figure out how spell works but after that it is fun ride.

Arcane Assembly is a programming platformer game. The platforming gameplay is reminiscent of Terraria and Celeste. All the combat is done with spells that you program yourself using a block-based language. It's really fun to figure out how to get the most impact from your available mana.

Great game, love the possibility of creating my own spells! Only one weak point, I think the story is a bit poor

I don't regret buying this game, but I can only recommend it to people who, like me, are solely interested in the spell crafting. The game is short, the platforming is uninspired and completely disconnected from the spell system, and the story is nonexistent. If you're not already comfortable with scratch style programming, this game won't help you learn. This game is much better as a game-design inspiration and source of mental exercise for spellcrafting obsessed people than it is as an actual game. Mana cost being calculated upfront somewhat restricts branching conditional spells, but if you're clever you can work around it. By making sure no mana costing tasks are inside your condition checking 1000x repeat loops, and some careful delegating of spell components with variables and lists, you can be a lot more flexible than some reviewers realize. With all that said, I would have still given this game a positive review, if it weren't for the fact that the spell programming has numerous bugs and the game has been abandoned by the developer. To name a couple, a physics bug causes orbiting orbs to rapidly spiral outwards, making the orbit function almost useless except for making an orb that follows you around by setting it to orbit and then changing the speed to 0. Also, any constant that contains a negative number registers as 0, though you can bypass this by using the subtract function. These annoyances really add up and they will never be fixed.

Really fun game

very cool idea and realisation

Great concept, terrible game.