Magocracy: Experimentation

Magocracy: Experimentation is a game of aerial mage battles in which you fly, fight and cast spells that can devastate the landscape. You customize your mage with dozens of attributes, adjusting qualities such as speed, size and firepower. Each change affects your mage’s power level, so you must spend your points carefully.

Game modes

The game includes several ways to fight, experiment and learn:

• Arcade/Tower Mode: Climb a tower and face a new challenge at each stage. Opponents are randomly generated and call for different tactics. You can adjust the difficulty, speed and power levels of both yourself and your enemies. At low settings, mages travel as fast as a car and shots pass through only one wall; at high settings, mages move at the speed of sound and shots can level a city block.
• Tutorial/Campaign: Learn and test how flying, shooting, attributes and powers work across more than 400 levels and over 10 hours of gameplay. You can customize aspects of the mode, including the AI type, number and health.
• Skirmish Mode: Make custom battles using the Skirmish Editor to choose the map, weather, units and powers for both sides. Experiment with 9 Unit Variables and 3 Shot Modes, each with 33 variables for tuning mage abilities. Power levels have no restraint in this sandbox mode.
• Curated Battles: Play more than 200 hand-crafted battles without setting up a mage’s loadout or points. The battles introduce combinations of shot types and special abilities, progressing from basic homing, explosive or cube shots to more complex setups. You can reuse parts of these battles in Skirmish Mode or alter aspects of them there.

Adjust the challenge

You can tailor the difficulty to your skill level. If a fight is too hard, you can raise your power level relative to the AI by 10, 100 or 1,000 times or more, enable player auto-aim and focus on dodging, un-possess your character to control another, or watch the battle unfold as a simple RTS. If it is too easy, you can raise your speed from 30m/s to 60m/s or up to 300m/s, lower your power level relative to the AI to 10%, 1% or less, increase AI Difficulty from 0.1 to 1, or change the AI Type to GroupUpRatio, which is 20 times harder to hit with non-laser and non-homing shots.