Wild Magic is a Survivors-Like developed for my third-year Senior Collaborative Development module at university, where teams of students were given roughly 2-3 months to create a small game project. These games were to be made to as high a level of quality / polish as possible.
In Wild Magic, the player is tasked with weaving through hordes of slimes to survive each stage and gain power through upgradeable spells!
Wild Magic's trailer, made by senior programmer (and Itch.io page owner) Luke Brown.
A Survivors-Like is a sub-genre of Roguelikes, where the players' weapons auto-fire and enemies swarm the player in huge numbers. Wild Magic is heavily inspired by games of this sub-genre, such as Vampire Survivors and Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor. As for visuals and art style, Wild Magic takes inspiration from games like Outer Wilds and Kirby and the Forgotten Land to create a cel-shaded "camping wizards" theme.
A piece of art for Wild Magic made by a member of the art team, Daisy Dillon.
I acted as project lead for the Wild Magic team, supervising and guiding other students as well as setting up tasks on Jira. I also contributed to the programming side of development, creating the groundwork for systems like the equippable spells and gamemode logic.
[Above] Some promotional renders for Wild Magic.
[Below] Pieces of Wild Magic concept art.
Tracking individual students' work was done via Jira, with a Microsoft Teams group set up for us to communicate and share resources / completed work. An example of a Jira task set can be found down below.
I am incredibly proud of the work my team put out, between the brilliant concept art, the translation of that art into 3d assets and models and the robust programming that allows the game to run quite well for a 3-month student group project!
In case you want to give Wild Magic a try, there's a link to its Itch.io page down below! There will also be a link to a Drive folder containing the game's GDD, which I wrote a sizeable portion of.
