Rediscover Wizdom Academy with a completely reworked demo!
This update introduces significant gameplay improvements, visual upgrades, and a host of new features, including graphic settings, to enhance your magical building experience.
Here’s what’s new in version 0.20.0:
New features and major changes
- Global rework of the onboarding: Begin your adventure with a brand-new onboarding experience, designed to guide you seamlessly into the magical world of Wizdom Academy.
- Builder workshop: Your wizards can now construct your academy! Mana is no longer required for building. Embrace your inner architect in the revamped builder workshop.
- Headmaster selection: Choose your headmaster when starting a new game. Customize your leadership and bring your unique vision to life.
- New room shapes and construction zone changes: Explore new square room shapes, reduced sizes for more compact designs, and updated stairways for better navigation.
- Alerts for unlocked content: Stay informed as you progress with notifications for new buildings, subjects, and other unlockable content.
- New difficulty settings: Play your way with new difficulty modes: Easy, Normal, Hard, Custom, and Sandbox.
- Rest rooms for professors: Professors can now be assigned dedicated rest rooms, ensuring they stay refreshed and productive.
- Performance templates: Optimize your gameplay with performance presets: High, Medium, Low, and Potato.
- Arrival portals: Characters now enter your academy through newly added arrival portals, enhancing immersion.
- New ruins and obstacles: Discover mysterious ruins and overcome new construction challenges on the map.
- Enhanced academy design: Added attics between buildings to eliminate gaps and ensure your school feels cohesive.
- Exterior decorations: Beautify your academy with new outdoor decorations.
- Revamped dormitory system: Dormitories are no longer mandatory for expanding your student and teacher roster.
- Visual and atmospheric improvements: - Volumetric clouds and atmospheric fog. - Water upgrades: better reflections, transparency, and wave effects. - Enhanced ambient lighting, shadows, and post-processing for richer colors and contrasts. - Reworked floor decorations: grass and stones now animate with the wind.
- New stained glass materials: The academy’s glass materials have been upgraded to stunning stained glass designs.
- Over 400 new artworks: Discover refreshed and corrected visuals that bring your academy to life.
- 3D sound effects: Immerse yourself with realistic sound effects for student graduations and other key moments.
Minor fixes and improvements
- Fixed camera issues preventing full terrain exploration.
- Updated UI animations for graduating students and new alerts.
- New camera travel sequences when starting a game.
- Improved recruitment UI for teachers, including new negotiation options.
- Teachers and students can now fall asleep on the ground if necessary.
- Construction prioritization now available for improved project management.
- Fixed color inconsistencies in energy and well-being UIs.
- Reduced the number of unnecessary alerts in the news feed with improved color coding.
- Enhanced visuals for building under construction and character movement.
- Fixed darker effects when changing floors.
- New portraits for headmasters with unique background designs.
Bug fixes
- Characters (e.g., constructors) not reaching certain rooms: fixed.
- Players can no longer kick recently graduated students.
- Advanced localization work on 5 new languages.
- Gradation fixes in the counselor satisfaction gauge.
- Polished settings menu and reverted alert direction for improved navigation.
As the year comes to a close, we want to thank you for your continued support and enthusiasm for Wizdom Academy. Your feedback and passion inspire us every day. We wish you and your loved ones a magical holiday season!
And don’t forget: the Early Access release of Wizdom Academy is just around the corner. Stay tuned for more exciting updates in the new year!
Wizdom Academy Demo is available now:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2668000/Wizdom_Academy/
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