The hat chooses the wizard

'The Hat Chooses the Wizard' is a 2D platformer. This game was developed as an entry for the GMTK game jam 2021, with the theme "joined together". The entire game, except for the music, was produced in just 48 hours.

In this game, you play as a wizard searching for his missing staff. However, the path to the staff is filled with dangerous obstacles and monsters. Luckily, you have a powerful magic hat that can be thrown and recalled, allowing you to fly towards it and reach otherwise inaccessible platforms.

With this unique mechanic, you can explore the game's levels and defeat enemies. The game's simple but challenging gameplay will put your platforming skills to the test as you try to reach the end.

The Hat Chooses the Wizard is built to run on an original Game Boy Advance, but it also runs smoothly on emulators. The game's download link includes an emulator in the zip file, so you can start playing right away.

The music is by Otto Halmén released under creative commons attribution 3.0 and can be found here: https://opengameart.org/content/sylvan-waltz-standard-looped-version

The code and graphics are by Gwilym and Corwin and were produced in the 48 hours of the jam.

The source code can be found here. The web version above contains post jam improvements

1. Made it so that the hat can be thrown without holding a direction
2. Made the idle time for the hat 3 times longer
3. Added extra hints through the tutorial levels
4. Fixed a rare crash
5. Fixed a potential soft lock on level 2-3