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Into the Stratosphere

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About:

It's finally time for your final exam at the Wizard Academy! In this exam you and your classmates have to find magic objects scattered through the realm. Travel across many different biomes and fight strong opponents in order to get the magic objects needed to pass your exam! 

(This is not an easy game expect to die quite a lot...) 

Development Progress:

Into the Stratosphere started it's development in late 2020 and was originally known as "Pixel Pray". This game is being made solo by: J4cko.16 (Jackson Sipes)

Ver 0.1

  • Game Prototype Uploaded

Ver 0.2 

  • added pause and custom camera functions witch can be used with E or Esc

Ver 0.3

  •  added a new unlockable difficulty
  • more advanced boss fights
  • a way to delete save data

Ver 0.3.1

  • Minor Bug Fixes

Ver 0.3.5

  • added a dash ability
  • minor UI improvements
  • zoomed the camera out a bit

Ver 0.3.5.1

  • Minor Enemy and Weapon Balancing Changes

Ver 0.3.5.2

  • Boss Patches and modifications

Ver ALPHA

  • OST has been added to the game
  • Slight Graphical Updates
  • Minor Bug fixes

Ver 1.0

  • Changed name to "Into the Stratosphere" 
  • Added dialogue between each area with several dialogue responses and outcomes and random npcs to talk to
  • Remade entire tutorial
  • Sprites updated from pixel art to vector images
  • Complete overhaul on the enemies UI  and stats
  • 3 new boss fights
  • got rid of "Insane" difficulty setting
  • added cutscene for final boss


Download Game or Donate: https://j4cko16.itch.io/into-the-stratosphere

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Since so much of the game is spent in combat, I think damage SFX and animations for when enemies are hit by attacks could be cool, since fighting them felt kind of boring.

Music can get repetitive sometimes. Dialog is unskippable and impossible to make faster.

J4cko16 responds:

Thank you for your feedback! this game is still quite early in development so I am planning on having dialogue be skippable in a future update. I never really had animations or sfx in mind so thank you for bringing it up. i'll try to make fighting seem more interesting!

Good game. But hard to play without a mouse. I would recommend making it so the spell travels further.

J4cko16 responds:

The game is suppose to be played with a mouse I should had mentioned that somewhere, also weapons shoot differently based on the kind of weapon, you may have gotten a slower weapon from the bosses. Depending on the enemies you fight determines what kind of weapon you get some shoot really far and fast but do no damage, others go like 2 feet but do alot of damage.

Credits & Info

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Score
3.13 / 5.00

Uploaded
Jun 21, 2022
6:04 PM EDT