The Witch in the Woods

Cynthia is a witch that is the protector of this forest. One day, on her way back home, she finds appearances of monster ravishing through this forest. You must remove these monsters from the forest and find the cause of their invasion.

Controls

• Movement: WASD or Arrow Keys
• Magic: [1] [2] [3]
• Attack: Click
• Pause: P
• Full Screen: F
• Skip Dialog: Enter or Space

Magic:

Magic is selected by the number you press. The elements are Blizzard, Lighting, and Firebolt. Each one is stronger than the other, but some enemies will have different damage to the spells. MP restores every second after 2 second of MP usage. Attacks take 2 MP and 2 seconds to recharge each.

Blizzard: is a short range attack

Lighting: is a mid-range attack

Firebolt: is a long range attack

About

The Witch in the Woods is something new I’m trying out. All objects are projected from a 2D top down map to try to create a pseudo 3D world. World objects will move around the player as you change the camera rotation. It creates a really nice effect, but I also put a lot of mathematical workarounds to really get the game going. There’s still a lot with the game that I’m figuring out, but the game came out pretty good. I would go into a lot of technical detail, but this post is already pretty long as it is.

The game itself is really focused on RPG aesthetics, with many inspirations from the Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest series games. But more specifically, what really inspired the mechanics and art direction is some of my favorite game devs on Twitter like Galof Manron and Faxdoc. 

This game was created in 2 weeks on Flowlab.io for Winter Flowjam 2023. All sounds and music comes from Flowlab, and the artist is a friend of mine that goes by Glowbug.

Having Performance Issues?

If you are experiencing any issue, please let me know what browser, device you are using, and make sure hardware acceleration is on in the browser. 

The download link below will help run the game better locally for Windows. 

https://flowlab.io/assets/users/62/user_622236/game_2202241/windows.zip?stamp=16...