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Mathilda Allhands
An upcoming management game will challenge you to build and expand an ancient academy of magic, exploring the vast dungeon beneath it known only as the Underschool in order to stave off a deadly fog. In Mind Over Magic you'll construct a magic school in cutaway view, staffing it with teachers and populating it with students ready to learn.
Mind Over Magic is developed by studio Sparkypants and published by Klei, developers of Don't Starve and Oxygen Not Included. It's probably at a level of accessible whimsy between those two, really, requiring management and planning to survive, but not quite the full-on gas/temperature/pressure physics simulation of Oxygen Not Included. There are also magic battles between your students and monsters in the Underschool.
For my part, the best bit of this playtest is that when you build the roof of your magic school there's a slider for how wonky and off it is. Which rules. I think we all know that whimsical magicians of this sort have buildings with rambling and weird rooflines, and the wonk slider is a perfect emulation of their architectural choices. More wonkiness sliders in games, please.
Your people can of course die in these expeditions, whereupon you're apparently able to build magically powered gravestones that return them to life as ghosts to haunt the school and also help with mundane chores. Nothing like dying between two classes and getting conscripted into your Alma Mater's ghost army for eternity. Classic wizard stuff.
As a cartography student, Jak has always dreamed of finding the lost dragon gate and exploring and mapping distant worlds. Developing magical powers and becoming a powerful wizard? Not a chance. But when he and his archaeologist mother unearth the gate, they attract the attention of the very wizards they sought to avoid. Even more troubling, Jak starts developing magical powers of his own, powers that could rival those of the great rulers.
"Happily Ever After" wasn't supposed to come with a do-over option. But when my husband of 20 years packs up and heads for greener pastures, and my son heads away to college, that's exactly what my midlife becomes. A do-over. This time, though, I plan to do things differently. Age is just a number, after all, and at 40 I'm ready to carve my own path. Eager for a fresh start, I make a somewhat unorthodox decision and move to a tiny town in the Sierra foothills.
About Mind Over Magic
Mind Over Magic is an upcoming video game of magic simulation genre developed by Sparkypants and published by Klei Publishing. It will be released on Steam for Microsoft Windows sometime in the future. (Read more...)
The first of three novels in a new contemporary fantasy series is now out: Mind Over Magic. Book 2 is coming in a little over a week, and Book 3 will be ready toward the end of October. (Have no fear: Dragon Gate, Book 4, is coming in December, and you can pre-order it now.)
Mind Over Magic is a 3D simulation game about creating your ideal magic school. You can design, construct, and optimize every detail block by block. All the while keeping everyone safe and content. Prepare your students to discover the horrors of the Underschool. It is a mysterious labyrinth holding dark secrets and deadly magical battles with frightful creatures and can provide great rewards.
Teach the students a variety of magic every day on a schedule that you choose. Assign teachers best suited for the job and harness their powerful abilities to unlock the true potential of the students. So, are you ready to make your dream magic school come true?
At school, the children are literally poised at a race line, at the end of class, ready to run out. Mr. Crocker suddenly screams "POP QUIZ!". He asks for the number of seconds in a year... but on Mars, A.J. stutters for a moment and then Crocker says "F's for everybody!" and pulls a rope, causing F marked papers to fall from the ceiling. At the cafeteria, Timmy asks Chester if Crocker is going crazy with the pop quizzes. Suddenly Crocker pops out of the lunch gruel and quizzes Timmy with a question, giving him no time at all to respond before he pulls another rope and rains down F's on Timmy again. At home, Wanda and Cosmo are helping Timmy clean up the pile of F's and one super F he brought home, when they suggest to him that if he could read minds then he would be able to tell whenever Mr. Crocker was going to give him a quiz.
Cosmo and Wanda grant the wish, and Timmy becomes psychic. When he tries to read Cosmo's mind though, he hears nothing but elevator music because Cosmo's head is empty. Cosmo then questions about a rattling noise that he hears when he shakes his head and Wanda then explains that Cosmo's empty head is good for carrying her stuff. Timmy is surprised to say that he cannot wait for school tomorrow. At school he easily outwits Crocker by reading his mind and finding out the answer to the pop quiz. Timmy is happy he got an A and reads the minds of his friends on their reactions, A.J. thinks he was lucky, Chester thinks he cheated, and Elmer thinks to himself that he hopes nobody will find out that his boil has a mind of its own. Later, Mr. Crocker pops out of Timmy's locker and tries to surprise him with another quiz, but Timmy knew the answer even before Crocker opened his mouth AND that Crocker's mother called him "Flippy". Crocker realizes the only way Timmy could know this and the answers to the tests before he could declare them out was because of his fairy godparents. At home, Timmy tells his godparents that he had a great day at school and the wish worked, although Wanda thinks that Timmy might use his powers to manipulate his friends and become a "big show-offy jerk", a thought that Timmy reads and takes as a suggestion.
First he uses his powers to defeat A.J. in a game. Timmy declares the square point that A.J. hoped Timmy wouldn't pick. A.J. then says "You've fragged my frigate!". Later at lunch, Timmy says hello to Trixie Tang but she asks "Why is this loser talking to me?". Timmy believes she is just saying that, but he reads her mind and she is having the same exact thought. His powers also affect Veronica who is staring at Timmy with hearts in her eyes thinking "Why isn't this loser talking to me?". The bouncer comes over and grabs Timmy, who reads his mind. The bouncer is wondering why he is working for ten year olds, and why he didn't finish college, then he thinks he can beat the answers out of Timmy. The bouncer tosses Timmy against a wall and into a can of trash. Meanwhile, Mr. Crocker has perfected his "Anti-Mind Reading Helmet", a clunky device that is so big that it requires sticks placed around him to hold his head up while wearing it, and when Crocker spasms about Timmy's fairies he breaks the support sticks and falls through the floor.In the school hallway, Timmy runs into A.J., Sanjay, and Elmer. When he reads their minds, he learns they're planning a surprise birthday party for him. They quickly run off with the other students to the gym. Timmy is excited, but Wanda warns that it might be a trap and that it isn't even his birthday. Timmy tells them to wait near the gym so that he can use them in case anything goes wrong. At the gym, it turns out they had a party there after all... but Mr. Crocker was there as well. His Anti-Mind Reading Helmet dropped from the ceiling suspended by a rope onto Crocker's head, and now Timmy was unable to read Crocker's thoughts. Whenever he tried to use his power, it was reflected back at him and Timmy ended up reading his own thoughts. Crocker tells the children in the gym to think of their favorite color, the overload of thoughts is causing the satellite dish the wish installed on his brain to overload, and Timmy collapses as Crocker tries to goad him into admitting he has fairies.Timmy struggles as he runs around the gym looking for Cosmo and Wanda, but Crocker had placed many different pink and green objects around the gym, confusing Timmy further. He finally manages to use his powers to tune into elevator music which he soon hears. When he realizes it is Cosmo, he rummages through a cart full of balls and finds Cosmo and Wanda disguised as basketballs. They unwish the wish and Timmy can no longer hear anyone's thoughts but his own. When Mr. Crocker tells Timmy to "Admit it!", Timmy agrees and admits to the students that it isn't his birthday, and that Crocker lied to get them to come here. They prepare to attack Crocker, demanding the candy he promised them. Francis grabs the rope holding Mr. Crocker's mind blocking device suspended and hoists Crocker up, Francis tells the other kids that Crocker is a piñata and that the candy must be in Crocker. They grab bats and whack Crocker as he screams. Outside the gym, Wanda asks Timmy "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" and Timmy says "Nope, and that's just the way it should be!". Timmy is also surprised that Cosmo's empty head saved them. Cosmo's head opens up and he grabs candy from the hollow space in it, tossing it to Wanda and Timmy. Then Chip Skylark emerges from Cosmo's head and sings "Shiny Teeth and Me".
When a case takes Shawn and Gus into an exclusive club for professional magicians, they're treated to a private show by the hottest act on the Vegas Strip, "Martian Magician" P'tol P'kah. But when the wizard seemingly dissolves in a tank of water, he never re-materializes. And in his place there's a corpse in a three-piece suit and a bowler hat.
Eager to keep his golden boy untarnished, the magician's manager hires Shawn and Gus to uncover the identity of the dead man and find out what happened to P'tol P'kah. But to do so, the pair will have to pose as a new mentalist act, and go undercover in a world populated by magicians, mystics, Martians and one murderer...
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