Grimoire

Team: Pants
Theme: Witches and Wizards
Genre: Projectile Fighting
Engine: Half-Life 2
Cohort: Cohort 05, Mar '07

Grimoire is a two-player spell-based fighting game created for Valve's Half-Life 2 Deathmatch. Players assume the roles of dueling sorcerers, trading magical attacks, counterattacks, and combos across highly interactive arenas. Some spells are more suited to attacks, some to defense; some are better at close range, others better at a distance; some are powerful alone, while a few show their true strengths only when combined with magic.

Every spell in Grimoire can be countered by at least one other spell. The Lightning spell, for example, calls down a bolt on an opponent's location, but a skilled player can turn the Lightning against his opponent by using the Teleport spell to swap places before the bolt hits. But Teleport could, in turn, be countered by placing a Runetrap at the swap location.

The intuitive controls and simple-but-deep mechanics give Grimoire the feel of an arcade-style fighter. Players must choose which spells to cast, as well as when and where to cast them, to emerge victorious.

Team Pants is: Jared Banks, Michael Bermann, Joshua Black, Jeffrey Cline, Andres Gonzalez, Ryan Hanscom, Jasen Langley, Benjamin Lewis, Timothy Locke, Justin Marcus, Kale Menges, David Pittman, James Stewart, Andrew Strickland, Joshua Szepietowski