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MrMallard
05/28/22 2:09:23 AM
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Whenever I do the hitching post thing to unlock my phone, I think about how if magic were a real thing, phones are probably the best modern conduit to cast spells by drawing runes. Like you draw a line pattern to summon a wall of flames or cast a firebolt spell.

Like it's just a phone lock screen grid, but you unlock more pegs the more you level up and that lets you cast more runes with bigger effects. If you get the rune wrong, the spell is either weakened or nullified - or maybe it does damage to you instead if you fuck up badly enough. The more pegs get unlocked, the harder it is to cast runes perfectly - so when you can draw a 20-point rune perfectly, it's hype as fuck.

Imagine standing face to face with someone, having a wizard battle with them by drawing runes into your phones. That would be fucking awesome.

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Shotgunnova
05/28/22 2:12:51 AM
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There was a DS game that did something like that with the stylus.

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pegusus123456
05/28/22 2:13:44 AM
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It's not a phone game, but one of the DS Castlevania games did this.

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shironinja
05/28/22 2:16:05 AM
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why dont you make it?

Some numb nuts troll probably already has a patent for it though and will sue you.

this idea also isnt toooo dissimilar from any trading card game.. it just swaps runes for cards.

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Alteres
05/28/22 2:33:16 AM
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Hey, he even just gave you a monetization scheme for it, gacha for your spell runes.

Split the money with ce

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FelineCyborg
05/28/22 2:41:45 AM
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Shotgunnova posted...
There was a DS game that did something like that with the stylus.

Lost magic? It was aight

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samurai bandit
05/28/22 6:53:17 AM
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There are some. I remeber some starswars mobile game had this. I still dont know why doing runes in the phone mapped to lightsaber attacks.

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Laserion
05/28/22 6:56:02 AM
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Like the gliphs in Ingress?

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Xethuminra
05/28/22 7:01:15 AM
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1. They probably did.
2. Mobile hasn't advanced in like 10 years

What's the big thing in 202X? Ports of console titles. Yikes. Where's my PSP?
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haloiscoolisbak
05/28/22 7:04:42 AM
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I think the original Harry Potter PC game had you draw shapes with the mouse to cast spells, and if you didn't draw it right the spell would fail. Was pretty cool

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Hayame Zero
05/28/22 7:06:28 AM
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I'd be surprised if there wasn't, it's just that most users probably don't play enough mobile games to know

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