Magic Carpet Overview
Magic Carpet presents a first-person experience where the player, a mage, navigates a series of fifty island-dotted worlds from a flying carpet. The core objective involves gathering a resource called mana to restore balance in each area, which then permits progression. Mana appears as golden spheres scattered across the terrain.
To secure mana, the player must first establish a personal castle by casting a spell, which causes a balloon to emerge and begin collection. This castle requires repeated enlargement through the same spell to increase its mana capacity. The process is challenging due to hostile forces, including monsters and rival mages, which must often be defeated to obtain the mana they release.
Combat utilizes a variety of offensive spells such as fireballs and lightning. A broader magical arsenal supports the player, offering capabilities like healing, teleportation, summoning creatures, and altering the landscape itself. These abilities are not all immediately accessible. Movement is fully three-dimensional, and a top-down map can be referenced at any time.
