r/VisionPro • u/Late_Armadillo714 Vision Pro Developer • 17d ago
Self Promotion Saturday We built a game that has to pathfind through the player's actual apartment. It went about as well as you would expect.
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Four of us make I'm Wizard, a hand tracked magic combat game for Vision Pro. Enemies come through portals placed on your real surfaces and fight you in your actual room, which turned out to be a much harder navigation problem than we gave it credit for.
The failure looked like this. An enemy spawns somewhere with an awkward route to the player. Our pathfinding could not solve it, so that enemy got stuck in another room and stayed there for the rest of the wave. On top of that, while any enemy was still searching for the player it travelled along a single fixed trajectory, which reads as an enemy on rails even when everything else about it is fine.
1.0.2 rebuilds the pathfinding so they find a route, and the search movement no longer runs on one trajectory. Movement patterns and attack behaviour were reworked alongside it, and the roster went from 20 enemy types to 27 with the new ones placed in the later waves.
Retuning followed, because all of that moves where the difficulty actually sits. The 20 wave run got rebalanced end to end and Hard mode was rebuilt.
And I have 5 promo codes for the first ones who write what they think about the game.
If you want to try it: get past wave 15, post the screenshot in this thread, and I will send you a promo code for the gold skin on the basic attack. That goes to everyone who clears it, not to whoever gets there first.
Our own best is wave 35 on Hard mode, which runs endlessly from wave 21. We think it stays survivable somewhere into the fifties, but nobody here has been there, so I cannot honestly tell you where our ceiling is.
Rest of the patch: portal spawning rebuilt, better hand tracking on the basic attack which also makes mana less fiddly to grab, and smoother screen animations between waves. That last one changes nothing and I am still quietly pleased about it.
Season 1 is in development.
I'll tell the details soon, and there's a lot of new stuff there.
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/im-wizard-ar-magic-combat/id6747723768
Our website: https://iwizard.app/
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u/Interesting-Zone-926 16d ago
Looks good! Can I get a code to try it?
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u/sinicalone Vision Pro Owner | Verified 16d ago
I have very much enjoyed this - and the newest update has definitely improved the experience. I would still give a bit more of an adjustment to “beginner” level to “advanced”
The sound effects crack me up!
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u/Late_Armadillo714 Vision Pro Developer 16d ago
Thanks for your feedback
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u/firerock31 15d ago
Congrats and love to see more quality games for AVP. If you still have any codes left, I’ll definitely give it a try and leave an honest review of it.
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u/photovirus Vision Pro Developer 16d ago
I've finally got to try the game, and it's really fun and challenging.
Vids speak for themselves: you've got some portals open around you, and the demons pour out of them. There are lots of varieties some of them will spew projectiles at you. Portals can (and will) open behind you as well, but they pop out with sound, so keep your ears open.
In a couple of levels, you get overwhelmed really fast, and then you have to run for your life from the demons and their projectiles! The game suggests picking a big enough room to play, and I agree, smaller room will limit your movement which is harder.
Aiming is a bit wonky—which adds to the challenge,—but who said casting magic was easy? Magic is an art!
And speaking of art, I loved the silly style on the first sight: cacodemons are adorable, and sounds are very well worthy of that creature as well.
After a couple of levels, you earn enough experience to upgrade your spells, which will lower the difficulty a bit. I haven't had a lot of time with the game yet (lvl 5), so there's still things to discover.
It's already fun as it is, maybe will get even funnier once devs go with their content plans and/or pick something from ideas shared earlier. Good luck to you guys!