History VideoGame / Academagia

''Academagia'', usually paired with the subtitle ''The Making of Mages'', is a PC life simulation game with RPGElements.

* ChildProdigy: The later stages of ''An Outing...'' shows that your fellow practitioners of Synchronicity view you as one. Unfortunately, since Synchronicity is very closely intertwined with [[TheDarkArts Mastery]] and you're c complete wild card, this makes people very wary of you indeed.

* FloatingContinent: The game takes place on [[http://sapiento.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d344adv a large floating island in an archipelago of other floating islands]]. They are all separated from Cvye, the rest of the planet, by an impenetrable magical storm called the Maelstrom. [[AfterTheEnd Things weren't always this way]], the floating islands and the Maelstrom were created thousands of years ago by Dragons to escape the general revolt of their enslaved human nations. All humans on the islands floating are descendants of the poor smucks that were on the land that was lifted skyward. However, the Dragons were eventually driven from most of the islands and appear to have been in general decline for centuries.

** Revision: Almost the direct opposite of Negation is Revision, magic discipline focused on changing aspects of living and non-living things. These are the spells that can fundamentally alter the properties of specific pieces of matter, the size of objects, as well as the physical and mental abilities of humans and other living creatures. It differs from Glamour in that a Glamour spell would only make someone's hair ''appear'' blue, but a Revision spell would make their hair blue (either temporarily or permenantly). Additionally, Revision is the main source of healing spells.

** Revision: Almost the direct opposite of Negation is Revision, magic discipline focused on changing aspects of living and non-living things. These are the spells that can fundamentally alter the properties of specific pieces of matter, the size of objects, as well as the physical and mental abilities of humans and other living creatures. It differs from Glamour in that a Glamour spell would only make someone's hair ''appear'' [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair blue]], but a Revision spell would make their hair blue (either temporarily or permenantly). Additionally, Revision is the main source of healing spells.

* UpToEleven: All skills go up to 10, but all have an eleventh level to unlock. You just have to figure out how.

* ALoadOfBull: Minotaurs are one of the non-human intelligent species of Elumia. While civilized and not innately hostile, they apparently tend to keep to themselves and don't normally mix with humans or other species. One notable exception to this seclusion is Gorithnak, Academagia's Master Smith and head of The Grand Forge. Although he isn't portrayed as particularly gregarious either...

* {{Mediator}}: One of the Adventures places you in this role. Specifically, you're invited to a noble court that handles disputes, and you're given the title of the "Innocence"; this is because the court's founder believed that children are untainted by the world's biases and thus are best suited to be judges. You, along with the adult judges with whom you have to share votes (though as the "Innocence", you carry a lot of sway), are asked to settle the following disputes:
** A woman (the plaintiff) is accusing her boyfriend (the defendant) of cheating on her with another woman, because she saw him walking with another woman and enjoying himself. The defendant protests his innocence; he has dated no other woman but his lover. Which one of them is telling the truth? [[spoiler: Both, sort-of. The boyfriend was getting jealous, feeling that his lover didn't appreciate him enough, so he ''conjured an illusion of another woman'' to make his lover jealous. It just backfired horribly because instead of just getting jealous, his lover assumed he was outright cheating. Since as he himself admit this was an extremely boneheaded move on his part, you can choose to rule in the plaintiff's favor, arguing that she has every right to break up with him now, but maybe they can maintain a cordial friendship. Or, now that the plaintiff knows the defendant really does love her, you can rule in the defendant's favor and argue that since he didn't cheat and really does love her, she should stay in a relationship with him.]]
** Two men are arguing over the patents to magical spells and devices they've invented. The plaintiff is convinced that the other man stole his ideas, while the defendant (who for some bizarre reason is named Darwin, yes, after Charles Darwin) maintains that he is innocent, that the ideas were in fact ''his'' and thus, he should get the money from the products and not the plaintiff. Which one of them is telling the truth? [[spoiler: The plaintiff is, and you eventually cause the defendant to have to hand over the profits.]]

* OneSteveLimit: Averted. Your year has two Vincents _and_ two Emilias.

* FloatingContinent / WorldInTheSky: The game takes place on [[http://sapiento.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d344adv a large floating island in an archipelago of other floating islands]]. They are all separated from Cvye, the rest of the planet, by an impenetrable magical storm called the Maelstrom. [[AfterTheEnd Things weren't always this way]], the floating islands and the Maelstrom were created thousands of years ago by Dragons to escape the general revolt of their enslaved human nations. All humans on the islands floating are descendants of the poor smucks that were on the land that was lifted skyward. However, the Dragons were eventually driven from most of the islands and appear to have been in general decline for centuries.

* OhCrap: You, the player, shall have this reaction when seeing nearly all your options are red. Or, heaven forbid, [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption purple]].

* AdultsAreUseless: Quite a few random encounters fall into this category. Partially subverted in that the teachers WILL sort the mess out later, after you spectacularly fail (and end up hospitalized), which brings us into CantGetAwayWithNuthin territory.

''Academagia'', usually paired with the subtitle ''The Making of Mages'', is a PC life simulation game with RPGElements. Released on August 13, 2010.

As of April 24th, 2017, Academagia has also been released on [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/533480/Academagia_The_Making_of_Mages/ Steam.]]