Wizard Prison

Conception
Wizard Prison started as a college assignment for us, but quickly became our pet project. We shared a vision for a difficult, retro, gritty fantasy game inspired by the 16-bit era. As each semester led to the next, we continued to work on Wizard Prison as we knew we had something worth sharing. We were excited to do our finishing touches, eventually add a true final boss, and release Wizard Prison to the public for some nominal price tag. As time went on, however, it became clear that life post-graduation would take the team on separate paths. Paying the bills would take priority, and those finishing touches would never happen. After multiple attempts to revive Wizard Prison to no avail, we collectively decided to release our most recent build, playable from start to finish, for everybody to enjoy free of charge. We hope you will enjoy escaping Wizard Prison as much as we enjoyed creating it.

Good luck.

Features
Art
16-bit style

Modern dynamic lighting

Top-down perspective
Interface
"Twin stick" control with WASD and mouse

Auto map
Sound
Retro-style SFX

Dynamic, real-time BGM
Game
Non-linear action/exploration gameplay

Five main spells plus one bonus spell-- can you find it?

Exploding barrels!