Welcome to the development blog of MageMaze!

What is MageMaze you might ask?
Well, MageMaze is a small indie game for the iPhone & iPod Touch platforms developed by two seasoned veterans in the game-industry; Kristof Minnaert & Michael Dashow. It is an after hours game we are building outside of our day-jobs. A game that we both are very excited and passionate about; a game that will hopefully appeal to a great deal of people!

At the heart of MageMaze lies a Turn Based Strategy mechanic with a little magical touch of puzzling fun! The game is inspired by the classic board game “Labyrinth” from Ravensburger where you plow yourself through an ever-changing maze in order to collect gold.
But not only classic board games inspire us, traditional sprites games are of a huge interest to us as well. In the current age of normal mapped deferred shading per pixel lighting technology, sprite-art has sadly become a thing of the past in most commercial games.  And it is the number one reason why we choose to depict the game’s art in sprite-art rather then 3D, even though we are both very capable 3D artists.

While MageMaze is heavily inspired by sprite-art, it is not only the art that makes a game good. So we took great care to developing our characters in the game!
The main protagonist, called Svenn the Svaliant; is a fearsome warrior lacking from a rare speech-disorder which renders him unable to pronounce words beginning with a ‘v’ correctly. Our delightfully evil antagonist Yngvarr the Ynvoker however, has no problem pronouncing words with a ‘v’. In  fact, being a Mage, a lot of his spells have v-words in them!  But he does have problems with fearsome speech-impaired warriors invading his dungeons, taking back the ill-gotten gold he worked so tirelessly to steal from the villagers himself!
Having a huge mortgage to pay every month, he is not going to let this weird hero take all his gold away from him. And what self-respecting sinister Mage does not have an arsenal of monsters, summons and minions at his disposal!

It is Svenn’s task to fight off all of Yngvarr’s vile minions, reclaim the gold, and return to the village victorious. But the only way to survive Yngvarr’s trap- and monster-ridden dungeons is to think fast and cleverly!
Use found weapons (some stronger then others) to fend off evil beasts, avoid traps and even reshape the dungeon itself to save yourself from a horrible fate.

The current alpha build of the game is available to play for free  at www.mage-maze.com and be sure to keep checking back here and www.mage-maze.com for more updates on MageMaze!
If you happen to have any questions or suggestions we might implement in the game; feel free to contact us at info@mage-maze.com

Greetings

Kristof & Mike