Wizard School Dropout

Devlog

• Release: Preview 2.1 - QOL Changes and Bug Fixes
  February 11, 2025 by Weirdfellows

  QOL Highlights Examine mode now shows items and interactable features, as well as an icon noting creature's attitude towards you. If a creature hasn't noticed you, the attitude description now notes i... Continue reading
• Release: Preview 2 - Textbook Love
  February 01, 2025 by Weirdfellows

  Broad overview: Many more items can now be studied, granting notes on magic. Groups of notes, when studied, become tomes of knowledge, which can then be sold or studied. You can study some crafted ite... Continue reading
• Release: Preview 1.6 - Zoom Zoom
  January 24, 2025 by Weirdfellows

  UI Zoom is re-enabled. A lot of the game's display code was built assuming a set tile size, so there may be some weird edge cases where things get wonky - please let me know if you see any! If you try... Continue reading
• Release: Preview 1.5 - Flame Cultists and Orb Choices
  January 22, 2025 by Weirdfellows

  Biggest changes this update are adding Flame Cultists as an actual faction, the fact that the scrying orb now gives you three locations to pick from rather than just generating a random location, and... Continue reading
• Release: Preview 1.4
  January 17, 2025 by Weirdfellows

  Content Changes Corrected an oversight that meant some creatures and items didn't ever spawn properly, or didn't spawn in certain rooms (for example, arcana-specific guards weren't spawning in the tra... Continue reading
• Release: Preview 1.3 - Balancing (and bug fixes)
  January 07, 2025 by Weirdfellows

  No crashes reported this time, so that's good! I've begun work on Air spells and content but those aren't in the release yet. I probably will wait until I've got about the same amount of spells finish... Continue reading
• Release: Preview 1.2 - Bug Fixes
  January 04, 2025 by Weirdfellows

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  Bug fixing continues. This update did add some error catching around the types of errors that have popped up, so hopefully there'll be less crashes even if there are more bugs. Planning to get started... Continue reading
• Release Preview 1.1 - Bug fixes
  January 01, 2025 by Weirdfellows

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  Crash fixes: Fixed a crash caused by creatures with Fiery Dash. Non-crash fixes: Sacrificial dagger no longer displays an error when damaging features. Raise Dead "Relentless Undead" upgrade no longer... Continue reading
• Initial version released!
  January 01, 2025 by Weirdfellows

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  It's been two years to the day since I started working on it, and Wizard School Dropout is now available to download for Windows and Linux! The game is fully playable and winnable at this point, but s... Continue reading

  
• Release Date Announcement!
  November 18, 2024 by Weirdfellows

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  Excited to announce that Wizard School Dropout will be releasing an Early Access release on January 1, 2025! For the time being, the game will be available for free, though that is subject to change a... Continue reading
• So how does Wizard School Dropout play?
  October 09, 2024 by Weirdfellows#devlog

  Wizard School Dropout combines quick-run "coffeebreak" gameplay with longer-term character progression. Gameplay involves short heists to various locations to steal as much as you can or complete miss... Continue reading

  
• All (initial) spells finished!
  September 11, 2024 by Weirdfellows#devlog

  I hit a pretty big milestone last week: I finished the code for all of the spells I want to have in the initial release! This is a pretty limited selection of what I want to have in the game eventuall... Continue reading