Choose from three spells. Call them Expelliarmus, Immobulus, Stupefy (or whatever). But really it’s rock, paper, scissors.
Swipe left to right on your phone to add a jolt of whatever spell is selected. This moves the “center” 10 pixels towards your enemy if you’re using the same spell, 5 pixels if you’re using the weaker spell, 15 pixels if you’re using the stronger spell. Of course, your opponent is moving the “center” the opposite direction at the same time, following the same rules.
You can switch between the spells at any time, but time spent switching is time not spent swiping.
The idea is to push the “center” of the beam all the way to your opponent, where he takes damage and the center is reset. Take damage three times and you lose.
It definitely would work much better with Harry Potter characters and spells, possibly a marketing tie-in to Deathly Hallows part 2.
Add sparks and glows and all manner of cool sound effects and special effects. Include sound bytes from the characters battling.
I just read this outloud to Anim and he says he wants to be able to "pick all the spells in Harry Potter". I think the rock-paper-scissors gameplay would be pretty smart. I'll see if I can convince him :) Oh, he just said that you could have the game for free because of your good ideas.
Thanks for your really detailed reply — and everybody else's too! Now I'm thinking I'll have to build this for him. My wife's going to shake her head if I tell her that I just added another sideproject to my list of sideprojects.
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His game would work wonderfully.
Choose from three spells. Call them Expelliarmus, Immobulus, Stupefy (or whatever). But really it’s rock, paper, scissors.
Swipe left to right on your phone to add a jolt of whatever spell is selected. This moves the “center” 10 pixels towards your enemy if you’re using the same spell, 5 pixels if you’re using the weaker spell, 15 pixels if you’re using the stronger spell. Of course, your opponent is moving the “center” the opposite direction at the same time, following the same rules.
You can switch between the spells at any time, but time spent switching is time not spent swiping.
The idea is to push the “center” of the beam all the way to your opponent, where he takes damage and the center is reset. Take damage three times and you lose.
It definitely would work much better with Harry Potter characters and spells, possibly a marketing tie-in to Deathly Hallows part 2.
Add sparks and glows and all manner of cool sound effects and special effects. Include sound bytes from the characters battling.
Make one kid ridiculously happy.
I just read this outloud to Anim and he says he wants to be able to "pick all the spells in Harry Potter". I think the rock-paper-scissors gameplay would be pretty smart. I'll see if I can convince him :) Oh, he just said that you could have the game for free because of your good ideas.
Thanks for your really detailed reply — and everybody else's too! Now I'm thinking I'll have to build this for him. My wife's going to shake her head if I tell her that I just added another sideproject to my list of sideprojects.
If you do take this further, would be very grateful if you could email me next time you post an update in case I miss it :)