Magic Survivors

You are a wizard beset on all sides by enemies.  Survive as long as you can!

WASD, arrow keys, controller, or touch controls (mobile only) to move.

Update 11/10/24 (Fixes and Layer Cleanup):

• Fixed issue were the first attack from some spells would cause a noticable pause
• Cleaned up layering of visual element (flamesplosion scorch mark no longer hides other spells behind it)
• Increased initial radius of arcane blade by 20%

Update 10/25/24 (Fixes and Performance):

• Fixed text overlap for Ethereal Shard text
• Reduced physics processing overhead and enabled multithreading to improve performance

Update 10/23/24 (Ethereal Shard):

• New Upgrade: Ethereal Shard
  • Reduces enemy armor effectiveness by 1 per level
  • Caps at level 4
• Updated Spellblade class to start with Ethereal Shard instead of Speed.
• Adjusted armor values for various enemies

Update 10/21/2024 (Shake):

• Added camera shake when the player is hit

Update 10/13/2024:

• Fixed issue where having less than 3 available upgrade options would cause filler "Name" items to show on the level up options

Update 10/8/2024:

• Performance improvements

Update 10/7/2024 (Hotfix):

• Fixed issue where archers are immortal but deal no damage (thanks @Modi for reporting!)
• Adjusted frame rate tracking to keep track of frame rates higher that 60 fps

Update 10/6/2024 (Fixes and Refactors):

• Fixed spelling mistake on "Conjure Javelin" (thanks @Modi)
• Fixed knockback recovery being way too fast when the frame rate is high
• Started major code refactor for additional performance improvements 
  • Please report any bugs as this refactor is ongoing!

Update 9/30/2024 ([EXPERIMENTAL] Unhinged and Uncapped):

• Uncapped frame rate
• Fixed various background bugs
• Updated chest pickup to display the full item card for the upgrade obtained from the chest
• Various performance improvements

Update 9/15/2024 (Blitz!):

• New Spell: Blitz
  • Defensive ability that only fires when the player is hit
  • Deals significant damage and launches the player forward in the direction they are facing
  • Gains additional damage and charges as it levels
  • Does not benefit from ring
• Updated Spell Thief class to start with Blitz
• Added Blitz to Hardcore mode
• Corrected Arcane Blade Level 3 & 4 descriptions to reflect the damage increase
  
• Minor visual update to Magic Bolt
• Slightly increased Tornado acceleration

Update 9/1/2024 (Fix and debugging):

• Added debugging to print to developer console in browser to help identify source of crashes
• Fixed  bug where Tornado would not go in the direction the player is facing when using the virtual joystick

Update 8/30/2024 (QoL):

• Added health bars to mini-bosses

Update 8/29/2024 (Not for the faint of heart):

• New Game Mode: Hard Mode
  • 1 spell
  • 2 skips
  • No boots
• Added Back buttons to menus

Update 8/28/2024 (Blade Adjustments):

• Adjusted Arcane Blade spawn timing and logic to better fit my vision of the spell.
• Fixed a bug in level up logic that made levels up requirements for levels after 20 to ramp up exponentially (thanks Rawrbot5000 for bringing this back up)
• Arcane Focus can now be leveled up to level 4 (max was 2)

Update 8/27/2024 (I've studied the [arcane] blade):

• New Spell: Arcane Blade
  • Melee strike in a circle around the player on a short cooldown
  • Subsequent levels add additional blades to the rotation
  • No knockback (does not scale with force funnel)
  • Benefits from ring
• New Starting Class: Spellblade
• Additional UI improvements

Update 8/22/2024 (Limits to Power [Experimental]):

• Capped upgrades:
  • Max 5 unique spells
  • Max 6 unique passives
• Swapped locations of player upgrades and enemies destroyed counter

Update 8/22/2024 (UI and Performance Improvements):

• Minor improvements to Level up UI for improved readability
• Various optimizations to enemy functionalities to improve performance
  • Added garbage collection to enemy projectiles
    
  • Reduced per frame overhead of enemy pathfinding logic
  • Reorganized collision and knockback logic to prevent unnecessary overhead

Update 8/20/2024 (More UI Updates):

• More UI updates to Menus, Level Up screen, and game UI
• Added FPS performance values to end game screen to capture lowest performance stats

Update 8/19/2024 (UI Updates):

• Updated frames in UI throughout
• Updated fonts throughout
• Updated audio on item pickups to better differentiate items from exp gems
• Fixed spelling errors

Update 8/17/2024 (Tile Trial):

• Converted background to a tile map, started work on basic tile set
• Started level redesign

Update 8/15/2024 (Engine Update and iOS Support):

• Updated project to Godot 4.3
• Magic Survivors can now be played on iOS devices
• Minor performance improvements
• There be archers...

Update 8/10/2024 (Frames win games):

• Added an FPS counter in the bottom left of the screen to assist with further performance improvements

Update 8/8/2024 (Gotta go (marginally) fast(er)):

• Updated Tornado speed to scale with player movement speed
• Fixed bug on Biscuit pickup causing it to do basically nothing
• Simplified colliders on all entities to improve performance
• Reduced memory load per enemy to improve performance

Update 8/4/2024 (Javelin Improvements):

• Adjusted Javelin speed and return speed to scale based on player movement speed
• Updated Javelin targeting logic to improve the odds of selecting targets closer to the player
• Updated Javelin return logic to "encourage" it to stay closer to the player.

Update 8/3/2024 (Improvements):

• Updated Tornado sprite and animation
• Minor performance improvements

Update 8/2/2024 (Target Acquired):

• Fixed issue where spells would fail to target the boss when it was the only enemy on screen.
• Fixed issue where spells would sometimes fire at the beginning of the game and get stuck in place.

Update 7/30/2024 (Fixes & Improvements):

• Fixed issue causing Iron Slime to spawn at the beginning of the game
• Changed Flamesplosion behavior (thanks to DarkTarconis for the suggestion!):
  • When firing multiple flamesplosions (when you have Ring 1 or 2), the last attack will always target the closest enemy, while the others will target randomly.
  • Increased time between firing multiple flamesplosion bolts from 0.2 to 0.5 seconds to reduce likelihood of AoE overlap.

Update 7/29/2024 (Slimier Slimes):

• Added new mini boss
• Added Armor stat to all enemies 
• Improved slime animations to make them more slime-like
• Updated Magnate icon for better readability (thanks Forkmantis for the feedback!)

Update 7/27/2024 (Loot Drops!):

• Added loot drops.  All enemies now have a chance to drop helpful items:
  • The Biscuit: Heals for up to 25 hp.
  • The Magnate: Pulls all experience gems to the player
  • Magical Potential: Upgrades a single item the player already has one level. (currently only drops from certain enemies)
• QoL Improvements:
  • Added a health bar to the slime boss
  • Extended duration of damage text on screen slightly for readability

Update 7/15/2024 (More Performance Work & Audio):

• New audio for Magic Bolt and Flamesplosion, courtesy of @Aarrow
• Minor performance improvements

Update 7/11/2024 (Continued Performance Work):

• Minor performance improvements
  
• Added Storm Lance class

Update 7/8/2024 (Performance Improvements Redux):

• Removed most of the performance improvements from the last go around because they caused a ton of terrible bugs
• Implemented new performance improvements that are less buggy (probably)
  • Game is now playable with several hundred enemies on screen

Update 7/7/2024 (Performance Improvement):

• Reduced overhead of offscreen entities to improve performance.

Update 7/6/2024 (Bug Fixes):

• Adjusted end game UI to make room for skip counter and class
• Fixed bug causing certain spells to stop firing while enemies were still alive

Update 7/2/2024 (2) (A Skippable Experience) [EXPERIMENTAL]:

•  [EXPERIMENTAL]  Using the "Skip" option on level up now fully refunds the experience gained for use toward the next level.
• Added Class to end game stats
• Added count of how many level ups were skipped to end game stats
• Added Pyromancer Class
• Added Earthshaker Class
• Added Frost Fangs Class
  

Update 7/2/2024 (More Info):

• Updated Class menu UI to include more details about the boons each class starts with.

Update 6/27/2024 (More Classes):

• Added three new classes to try out more starting item  and stat combinations

Update 6/26/2024 (Classy Improvements):

• Improved UI on Class Select menu
• Adjusted base values on several classes
• Fixed bug where Battle Mage could select javelin as a starting spell even though they have it by default
• Redirected "Restart?" button to go to the class select screen
• Reduced base volume of the Whirlpool SFX

Update 6/24/2024 (Feeling Classy) [EXPERIMENTAL]:

• Added starting classes!
  • Each class differs in stats and starting items (sprites are WIP)
  • Class selection currently only occurs when starting from the menu
  • For players who want to play the original class, select "The Purist"
• Addressed issue causing spells to not fire when the game starts
  • Spells also will not necessarily stop firing after all enemies are defeated

Update 6/13/2024 (Minor Updates):

• Added audio to Whirlpool ability (thanks again @Aarrow!)
• Added internal collision on whirlpool for enemies to help prevent them from being thrown at the player
• Fixed bug in Flamesplosion where the burn mark would apply knockback to enemies

Update 6/3/2024 (New Tunes+):

• The main background track got a huge upgrade thanks to @Aarrow! Go give his stuff a listen!
• Experimental: Increased overall game speed.  Would love feedback on the feel of the game at the new tempo.

Update 5/28/2024 (Forceful Fun):

• New Upgrade: Force Funnel
  • Increase knockback force and projectile speed by a fixed amount per level for all abilities
  • Whirlpool pull is also effected by this upgrade
  • Intended to reduce reliance on Speed upgrade to complete the game and allow for more variety of play
• Adjusted speed and knockback recovery of various enemies

Update 5/27/2024 (Fixes and Tweaks):

• Fixed issue where whirlpool did not pull enemies towards the center of the whirlpool.
• Increased the speed at which Javelin returns to the player by 25%.
• Adjusted enemy and attack layers to prevent large AoEs from covering enemies or other attacks.
• Improve garbage collecting to reduce memory usage.

Update 5/15/2024 (Whirlpool!):

• New Spell: Whirlpool
  • Player drops a small stationary AoE that expands after a short channel
    
  • Enemies and Loot are pulled into the whirlpool
  • Does not benefit from Ring
• Fixed bug where enemies could get stuck outside the level colliders
• Minor performance improvements

Update 5/8/2024 (Walls):

• Added walls to mark the end of the playable area (enemies can spawn beyond those walls)
• Collider changes to improve performance

Update 5/2/2024 (Bug Fix):

• Fixed bug where all attacks would suddenly stop after a level up. 

Update 4/30/2024 (Bug Fix):

• Fixed bug where, if Quake is the first spell selected, it would sometimes spawn a permanent AoE that launches enemies into orbit. 

Update 4/29/2024 (Boss Item Tracker):

• Added indicator to track boss item drop when it moves off the screen
• Updated Quake description text provide level up details
• Fixed audio bug where Quake volume was not being adjusted with sfx volume
• Fixed issue where spells keep firing after all enemies are dead (again)

Update 4/24/2024 (Skip!):

• Added level up "Skip" button to allow players with specific build aspirations to skip selection when none of the options rolled are suitable.

Update 4/23/2024.1 (Fixes, Balancing, Improvements):

• Fix bug where regen could cause HP to exceed the max
• Quake Improvements:
  • Added visual time to item icon
  • Increased base area by 20%
  • Increased damage at level 2 instead of level 3
  • Increased damage and knockback at level 4

Update 4/23/2024 (Bug Fix):

• Fixed Quake knockback pushing all enemies in the same direction instead of away from the player.

Update 4/22/2024 (Quaking in anticipation):

• New Spell: Quake!
  • AoE centered on player
  • Strong knockback
  • Moderate damage
  • Does not benefit from Ring
• New Upgrade: Regen!
  • Flat health regeneration per second
  • Scales to level 4
• Updated Ring detail text to reflect actual effect

Update 4/9/2024 (Bug Fixes):

• Fixed bug causing level-up screen to show double the options
• Fixed bug causing all projectiles to fire, stay in place, and not despawn after all enemies have been defeated
• Fixed bug on mobile where leveling up would always select the first option (thank you to Deemand for reporting the issue!)

Update 4/5/2024 (Boom: Improvements and Rebalance)

• Flamesplosion:
  • Added Timer visual to ability icon
  • Increased base AoE size
  • Corrected colliders not lining up with visuals
  • Fixed background runtime errors
• Magic Bolt
  • Fixed issue where maxed out Magic Bolt (MB4, Ring2, Scroll4) had a slower rate of fire than lower levels
  • Increased time between volleys from 1.0 > 1.5 seconds
  • Decreased level 4 volley reduction from 0.5 > 0.25 seconds

Update 4/4/2024 (Boom.)

• New Spell: Flamesplosion!
  • Lingering Area of Effect
  • High damage
  • Very Low rate of fire
• Fixed issue where projectiles track with player movement
• Improved controller support on all menus
  • Continuing to investigate controller issues on Level Up menu
• Fixed issue where game could be paused/un-paused while in the Level Up menu
• Added Restart button to Pause menu
• Minor adjustments to virtual joystick on mobile

Update 3/20/2024 (Mobile Compatibility!)

• Added touch controls for mobile
• Enabled mobile view for Itch page

Update 3/19/2024:

• Added controller support (experimental)
• Added visual cooldown timer to Tornado spell
• Adjusted Current Spells/Items UI for readability

Update 3/18/2024 (Can You Hear Me?):

• Added Options menu to Main Menu for audio controls
• Added Pause Menu with  audio controls
• Removed player collider to test game feel and improve performance
• Additional adjustments made to improve performance

Update 3/17/2024 (The Lizard Brain Update):

• Added damage indicators to enemies
• Added kill counter to game and endgame stats
• Added Pause functionality (button on screen and "esc" key)
• Updated Magic Bolt VFX (for visual flare)
• Adjusted later enemy stats to address difficulty falloff
• Fix memory leak causing resource usage to scale after all enemies are defeated 

Update 3/16/2024 (The Actual Ending Update):

• Added boss drop to end game
• Added new upgrade: Bonus Health
• Added replay option to end game screen
• Added visual feedback when enemies take damage
  
• Added damage buff to Tornado at level 4
• Adjusted spawn times for certain waves
• Adjusted speed at which gems are pulled in
• Updated experience bar visuals
• Fixed level up menu title always displaying starting weapon text
• Fixed duplicated stats list when player dies

Update 3/14/2024 (The Weapon Select Update):

• Added starting weapon select at start of game
• Added new enemy
• Added new waves
• Fixed Stats reset issue
• Updated Javelin sprite

Update 3/13/2024 (The Stats Updated):

[Game]

• Added stats to end game screen
• Minor adjustments to attack collision
• Updated UI Icon rendering

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Update 3/12/2024:

• Added feedback when player gets hit
• Added new "Magic Bolt" weapon
  • Fires 3 bolts of magic targeting the nearest enemy
  • Low damage per bolt
• Increased speed at which Javelin returns to the player
  • Intended to improve Javelin reliability
• Increased Base Movement Speed (40 -> 50)
• Reduced Movement Speed Upgrade Amount (50% of base -> 25% of base)
• Improved visibility of experience drops