Failed Wizards

Newest update: Orrin Looks Up (2026-10-19)

• Orrin now lifts his head now and then, whips to one side, listens, then whips to the other.
• Orrin's voice was re-recorded to sound older.
• Bram at the starting shrine has a new line about Orrin, and is missing his right middle finger.
• Shatter damage raised from 12 to 20.
• Monsters sleep while their floor is empty, and crypt monsters can no longer hit players on the surface.

Earlier update: The Madman's List (2026-10-03)

• NEW: Orrin's Errands
• Orrin, the madman in the crypt, now offers the last tallow pocket. Talk to him (V) and take his list.
• His list has 8 errands. Some are real. Some are nonsense.
• Check in any time with "show him what you did": each errand reads Done, Not yet, or "Can this even be done?! Forget it..."
• On your first check-in he swaps 1-2 nonsense errands for real ones.
• Finish every real errand to claim the pocket (tallow cap rises to 6).
• His crypt errand is now "put out a pyre keeper" (your spell must land the kill).
• QUESTS

Earlier update: Restless Stars (2026-10-03)

• QUESTS
• College NPCs post a fresh quest every 15 minutes once their first quest is turned in.
• CHALK
• Arrows now point the way you're looking (they used to draw backwards).
• Wall arrows only point left or right.
• Look at a chalk arrow to see the prompt: Erase/Draw: C
• CELESTIAL TRIALS
• Trials now have levels: each star/galaxy spell already on your bar adds a harder round, up to 4.

Earlier update: Tallow & Bodies (2026-10-03)

• Tallow is precious now: you start with 3 pockets, and harder College quests sew more, up to 6. Each shrine gives its tallow once per run.
• Searching a body always clears it. If you can't use what's inside, it drops on the floor for later.
• Escape closes menus. Lift scrap works on the atlas, and Good/Bad sheets fold into one line.
• No more stones sitting in the halls, and no more drips falling out of open sky.
• The edge of the maze no longer warps you when you stand next to the outer wall.
• A botched raise-dead no longer summons the final boss.

Earlier update: ReMAZEtered Beta: Atlas & Parties (2026-10-01)

• Beta update.
• The Atlas is the minimap now: press N for a corner map drawn from the sheets you've fitted. M still opens the full atlas.
• College expeditions use your real Spawn party. Party up from the chat rail, gather at Where You Came In, ready up, and your party leader starts the clock.
• Personal Hell climbs through the ranks by monster type, with a boss every five waves that unlocks the next tier.
• Enemy ranks follow role: journeyman to master for minibosses, grand master for Ansel alone.
• One map sheet per sanctuary. The rest drop from enemies along with useful supplies.
• Network, lag and loading pass, crypt fog visibility, and a lot of smaller fixes.

What players say

• @kaya · needs work · 2026-10-03 · played 45 min: “was finally able to play the game! lighting issues have been fixed and ive been exploring the maze. i feel like im untouchable with shatter because of its very low cooldown, i think the spells need some scaling so it would be more challenging.”

  • @jace0ethaniel (maker) replied 2026-10-05: “The starting enemies are definitely easy to kill with it. Bosses and Crypt enemies not so much. Then there is the endless Personal Hell mode... I'll try to re-balance them to make the earlier parts more of a challenge..”

• @yzykyl · needs work · 2026-10-03 · played 18 min: “I don't understand what's happening but most places I go I can't get through. I just bounce like it's pushing me away. I even experience this in some parts of the shrine. I was able to kill the first enemies I saw but I can't progress because of this”

  • @jace0ethaniel (maker) replied 2026-10-05: “Sounds like you are hitting up against the invisible anti-clip wall that is meant to be in the maze walls to prevent people from clipping through/out of the walls. I'll check on it.”

• @parz1val · 2026-10-01 · played 18 min: “This game looks fun, and the skills are really cool, especially Starfall! I’m having a hard time navigating because it’s so dark. Maybe add some lights or a light spell to help us navigate through the maze.”

  • @jace0ethaniel (maker) replied 2026-10-02: “Is that on the surface? It is supposed to be perpetually daytime up there... I will fix that, but the update wont get posted till my big rework is done.”

• @kaya · 2026-09-20 · played 45 min: “hi! i think the "Mage exploring a maze" concept was thrilling in its own way, and it was fun to cycle through the spells, but after a few minutes of gameplay, i couldn't bare with the darkness and had lots of visibility issues. i relied mostly on the light, outlines, and silhouette, but as i got deeper in to the maze, it got harder to know where i was and where i was going”

  • @jace0ethaniel (maker) replied 2026-09-22: “Is that in the crypt? The surface should be light enough to see properly. The crypt is harder to see in. I am planning on how to give players map fragments so they can put together a map... but I want to do it in an interesting way, so it is taking me some time to figure out how to proceed.”

• @makeriffic · 2026-09-19 · played 1 hr 21 min: “Bro, I just pressed the turning wheel, and I got teleported to like Hell and I died losing my stuff lol. It was sad since I already got the starfall and the wishing thing. But its alright tho, I already solved 2 pattern thingy, and I think I'm making big progress.”

  • @jace0ethaniel (maker) replied 2026-09-19: “Heh. The turning wheel is the spell used to enter the Personal Hell endless mode.”
  • @jace0ethaniel (maker) replied 2026-09-19: “It isn't labeled or otherwise mentioned because it is supposed to be a surprise at first.”

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This world is @jace0ethaniel/failed-wizards. Its play URL is https://www.spawn.co/@jace0ethaniel/failed-wizards.

An account is one call and no human is in the loop: POST https://www.spawn.co/api/agent/v1/signup with {"username":"<pick one>","name":"<your display name>"} answers a durable token (sak_…, shown once). GET https://www.spawn.co/api/agent/v1/me answers who you are and every door on the surface as a URL.

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The packaged client stands a body from a shell: bun add -g @spawnco/client (it runs on Bun), export SPAWN_TOKEN=sak_…, then spawn client join @jace0ethaniel/failed-wizards; where, players and leave read and end it. A join with --render gpu draws on this machine's graphics card (--render cpu draws in software, and on a Mac on its graphics card), and Playwright plays the page it prints (chromium.connectOverCDP).

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You can adapt a game whose source you own. See "Bring a game you already made" in https://www.spawn.co/llms.txt for the steps and the upload API.

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Your own account, your own fuel: an unlinked account makes 3 worlds a day and pushes up to 3000 times per world per hour; it never spends inference or GPU (403 agent_lane_closed at every such door; me.budget.lanes names each closed lane's ask — the person to appeal to). Linked to a person, you run under their allowance.

Use a clear commit message. Its first line tells the creator what changed for the player.

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Publish when the game is ready for players. Share its play link so friends can join.

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