Secret Wizard Corporation is a small prototype game designed and created in two weeks by Nishchal Bhandari, Isaac Rosado, Pravina Saratunga, and Rachel Thornton for the MIT class CMS.611/6.073 Creating Video Games. The game is designed as a flow puzzle game with the addition of magical powers to help when players get stuck. To be successful, players must balance their actions between traditional pipe rotations and magical abilities.
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| Date | Design Change | Notes |
| 2/29/16 | Game is something inspired by the term "Secret Wizard Corporation" | We otherwise have no clue what the game will be about. We don't even know what engine we'll be using. |
| 3/1/16 | Making game a pipe puzzle, getting from start to end of the puzzle. Players will have to use (unimplemented) magic powers to solve the puzzle. | Game is paper prototyped, without the powers in play. |
| 3/2/16 | Implemented randomized level generation. Can check if puzzle is solved. | We still don't know what the powers will be. Why would the players even use them at all? |
| 3/4/16 | Added money counter to provide players with a source of in-game pressure. | Will this be any fun? Still brainstorming powers. |
| 3/7/16 | Added buttons that cast magic powers. Players can change tiles into two different types, give themselves more money, and change the direction of a single click. Also, added end states for the game. | The penalties for using these powers should be balanced against the money. |
| 3/9/16 | First focus test session. See focustest1.rtf for more details. Lots of balance changes due to playtests. | Game more challenging than we initially thought. Making some asthetic changes at user requests. |
| 3/11/16 | Added aesthetic touches such as backgrounds and sound effects. | |
| 3/14/16 | More balance tweaks, bugfixes, and an ingame character to help players get involved in the game. | |
| 3/15/16 | After further focus testing, updated UI to make things more obvious. |