Wands and Witches [v1.0 Public] [Great Chicken Studio]

So we’ve finished Wands And Witches.

It took us a long seven years. It’s fair to say there were big pauses in the game’s development. But it was always you – our players – who helped us out. It was you who gave us the strength and motivation to move on.

We always tried to listen to the community. It was your wishes and the results of your polls that guided us in creating this game. During these years, even the very concept of the game has changed. Initially the game was planned to be more like a sandbox, with no main story at all. The animations were simple and made on the engine (you can still see some of these animations in the game).

But it was your feedback that made the game what it became. The game became simpler, more obvious, less grindy.

During this time the composition of our team has also changed a lot. Two writers have changed. Almost a dozen artists and designers worked on our game at different times.

But now the development of the game is finished. How do we feel about it? Various things. We are happy that now we will be able to focus on the development of a new project. We are a little bit sorry to part with our old characters (though let’s not hide it, we’ve gotten bored enough with them 🙂 ). Technically, the game has become quite outdated during this time. And we could hardly refrain from spending a lot of time to bring it to more modern standards. Maybe we’ll still do it later, releasing a gold edition or something. Anyway, in the coming months, the game may still get minor updates for localizations that community members help us with.

But now, version 1.0 is out. We hope our older players will enjoy what our game has become and how it ended. And those who didn’t play Wands And Witches during development will be able to discover this game.

Thank you everyone!

The game is finished, but our studio’s creative journey is not. We would appreciate it if you follow us in the future as well.

~The Team!

As always with the latest releases, it turned out to be more than we had planned. The size of the game has grown by 17,000 words and 27 scenes.

We remind you once again that all new content takes place after December 21st. The game time has been extended until December 25. You must use the old save, or play again before the end of December to see the new content. We strongly do not recommend using cheats to change the date in the game, this can completely break it. The events of this update are very variable, and it is almost impossible that two playthroughs will lead to two identical balls.

Even though we put in a lot of pre-alpha testing, we’re pretty sure we couldn’t find all the bugs. So, if you find any, or you just think that events in your game are developing illogically, then we ask you to tell us about it.

What has already been done:

– Two new quests. The first is the Christmas ball. The second takes place during the ball, and will fail if you don’t complete it before the ball is over.

– New outfit for almost all characters.

– New, more varied sprite for Ginny. So far we have only used it for the ball, but in the next versions we will replace her old sprite in the rest of the events too.

– Three backgrounds have been redesigned to better match the holiday spirit.

– Two new soundtracks.

– Animations for 7 scenes out of 27 are ready.

What we have to do before the public version:

– Catch and fix the remaining bugs.

– Complete the remaining animations.

– We have ordered another soundtrack, and we will add it to the game too.

– We are waiting for one of our Patrons to do the final proofreading for the English localization. Many thanks to him for that!

We will release beta and public versions as soon as they are ready. This largely depends on the activity of alpha testers. We will definitely finish the remaining animations in two weeks. So we think you can see the next releases in early November.

– 12.5k words of new content.

– A new big quest in which you can romance Snape. This quest is completely finished and available for the female and gay characters. This quest contains three new scenes. We also significantly improved the background for Snape’s personal office.

– A new quest that includes gossip girls. It is vailable for male and female characters, but the male character has more features here.

– We have completed a Colin’s ‘good’ quest line. We didn’t do a new quest, however, we significantly expanded his previous quest. Three new scenes are here, with two different animations.

– We added two new events to Hermione’s quest. One of them contains a completely new scene, and is only available for the male character. In the second you will meet a new character, but the scene will use the old animation.

– Now you can bring the other two witches to the Witch’s Sundew.

– We also completely redone Rolf’s main sprite and the robes shop in Diagon Alley.

– We added six new small events at the early game. We hope they help you better understand NPC’s personality.

– We have seriously redesigned navigation at Hogwarts. Transitions between locations will now be faster, and without visual effects. We also removed the “Closed” alerts.

– Now you can turn off hygienic and non-hygienic if you want this.