2024-04-16 02:02
Huge fan of this puzzle game! Very satisfying visuals and theme
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD55 → Out of Chalk
By coffe789
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 5 | 4.47 | 49 | |
| Fun | 5 | 4.42 | 49 | |
| Innovation | 2 | 4.57 | 49 | |
| Theme | 21 | 4.54 | 49 | |
| Graphics | 55 | 4.54 | 49 | |
| Audio | 30 | 4.30 | 47 | |
| Humor | 33 | 4.31 | 26 | |
| Mood | 31 | 4.39 | 26 |
Huge fan of this puzzle game! Very satisfying visuals and theme
Absolutely brilliant!!! First of all - fantastic art, music and trimmings. But just the gameplay and concept is ingenious! Also a super smart narrative conceit! Fantastic entry!! The solution for the three horizontal lines in the garden had me literally exclaiming the first two words of this review out loud! 5 stars across the board! Great show!!
Really interesting concept - I've never played anything like this before! I absolutely loved the art and music - Whatever instrumentation you were using for the high notes really gave me gameboy Zelda vibes which I was totally digging, and the art style was great!
This is one of my favorite concepts! Thank goodness there were clips because I couldn't download the rar folder (my computer thinks its a file not a folder) If you download it to Itch.io please do a .zip!
Super interesting concept. Very creative puzzle game. Is there a way to make the window larger?
One of the best games I've ever played. This is awesome; love the puzzles!
@alliegator Hey, sorry about that! The downloadable version is a .zip file.. but if it's not working you can always try the itch link to the web upload?
I loved it! Great graphics, good audio. Good puzzles. Some humor to it, even some story to it. Just difficult enough to keep me engaged, but not hard enough for me to give up.
It took me a while to figure out that I was supposed to just put the items in the correct way. First, I thought that I was supposed to draw the symbol with the pencil. The whole game also turned red after a while adn I'm not sure that was intentional.
Really great game, great visuals with a soundtrack that definitely suits the gameplay. Some of the challenges are not that straight forward, took me a couple moments to find the solutions to some of these puzzles. If you have not yet and you like puzzle games, play this game! Great job to the devs!
Didn't work on first attempt at loading but after a refresh it did, might have just had some issues loading assets? Otherwise game looks incredible and it has such a cool premise. Music is just right, too. This is so polished
Such a creative entry! Really loved the main game loop. The artwork was very charming and the music helped to create a Zen like experience. Great work!
I love this game, it's incredibly polished and the gameplay, storytelling, and graphics play perfectly together! I'm impressed how satisfying picking up and placing objects are, it feels great and there's no issues with layering or selecting the wrong object. The dialogue is well written and funny, the concept is really unique as well. Great job everyone!
KRKSKKRKSKSRK!
I dunno what that was... anyway. What a super clever game. What seems like a standard on a summoning circle is anything but! It's a bit mental puzzle, a bit physical puzzle. Cute little story to go along with it, and the graphics and audio are superb! Very polished, wonderful little title. Great job.
Solid game all around! No criticism, except: NEED MORE!
this is super well done! really makes you get creative and think a good amount about the tools at your disposal... super satisfying to get it right. the balance feels great here because it also doesn't really hold your hand. the soft ambience of the music in the background is also very fitting for a thinking game like this. really great!
SO GOOD! I love what you did with this game! The art is cute, the puzzles are clever, and I had a blast playing this. Great job!!!
Great game! Really fun gameplay, great visuals, good music, and on theme, just great all around. When I was playing through for the first time I accidentally quit and lost all my progress :upside_down:. Maybe consider adding a level select next time?
This game could win it all tbh
That's a cool idea! Nice graphics. I experienced difficulty reading the pixel fonts, but I think it's a minor problem. 5/5
I love the unique way you made the summoning happen! Love the concept and the graphical stylings!
Really like this one, all aspects of the game are solid and enjoyable, it is rare for jams so 5/5 keep going guys.
ngl this is my favourite so far! all these funny stories and details made it more awesome! i told my friend that if its gonna be an euler diagram at the end i will give it 5/5 and you pleased me the right way! i hope your game receive more attention it's really good kkksjhksh
This is such a creative idea. I found the 'abstract' puzzles more fun to solve, as opposed to the ones which gave you some shapes directly. Love the game name too btw, great job!
this game is sick! the music vibes, the art is stellar, game plays smooth, dialog makes me laugh. the puzzle solving element requires some lateral thinking but in the best possible way. also extra cool to recognize some celeste modders in this jam... hi <3
@lushboy-studios Hi marshall! Thanks for playing, glad you liked it (:
I saw this being played on a stream, and instantly knew I had to try this for myself. What an absolutely lovely and creative idea! It was a lot of fun trying to figure out how to make the circles, and it never felt frustrating. Even when I was trying to form a circle with the many objects in the messy room, I did not blame the game that it took me a while to find the light switch. All the way I've just been enoying the concept too much for me to get mad. The texts are really funny, the music very relaxing, the sound effects are nice, and the artstyle is just lovely. Well done!
This is one of the best entries I have played so far...It's simply fantastic, everything form the art to the funny writing to the clever puzzles comes together to make such a fun and enjoyable experience!!
Congrats for the team to putting out such a polished game in 3 days, it shows that this had a lot of care and effort put into it!
I think This has good chances of winning!
This is ridiculously good, it definitely deserves to place first in at least one of the categories-- Clears Innovation in a sort of meta way, since in-game you have to innovate with what you're given to fit the summoning prompt given to you hahaha
Whew, this game gets TOUGH after a while but it's super clever, cute, and super creative. The art is really awesome too, as is the premise of summoning demons to help with homework or curse a teacher 🤣 Well done! ​
Super polished and well made entry!
Great game! The final puzzle was really interesting it took me a bit to make the final logical leap needed to solve it but I got there! My only notes are that the dialog occasionally felt rigid or just uncharacteristically empty, like you summon them and they're like "okay" and that's their whole reaction, while others feel like characters and their dialog feels more involved, but I imagine that's a time issue more than anything. Anyway good stuff!
ONE OF MY FAVS. Not only are the level concepts freaking nice, the art and atmosphere really keept me captivated. Thank you for this piece of art, honestly!
Great art and **funny**! The first puzzle was in a way the hardest because it didn't quite get across how precise you had to be, but after that, they were all the exact correct level of hardness, I'd say, and the mechanics you introduced as it went on were a great ramp-up. (I got a chat hint from you on the last level too which saved me a bit but I think I would have gotten there. Was thrown off by the position in the notebook, which you obviously expected. But maybe a single in-game hint for each level for people who don't have you to chat with? (But jam game, no worries.))
Incredibly good puzzles, good vibes, love the music, and the humor is on point! I don't tend to see puzzle games done well for jams, really really impressed!
Really good work! My first time giving all 5 stars across the board this jam! ^^
@monika I can't believe we didn't think of that. If we do a post-jam version that's absolutely going to be in there - in-game hints would solve a lot of sticking points for people! Thanks for the feedback!!
I/m not usually one for puzzle games but for this I would gladly make an exception! Nice artwork, cool soundtrack and a general ambience that drew me in. All in all an excellent experience!
Very nice! I always like puzzle games, but even then this one is special. Great use of music to set the mood.
I'm not sure the "bigger room" idea really works later on, I feel the challenge shouldn't be to remember what's out of sight?
It also feels like the later levels are less clear, as in on level 9 I think my circle is perfectly adequate, but the game doesn't accept it and I'm not sure why, so there's not a lot I can do to fix it. Still, it's a jam game, so that sort of thing is normal and to be expected :)
Overall, great game!
Took me a while to figure out. A bit hard but that is a bit good in my opinion to get a bit of an challange. That's a pretty genius and uniqe puzzle game ya got there. Nice art and music too. I added it to my collection on itchio. Wanna come back to it and try out and explore more later. You should definitely make this a full fledge commercial game in my opinion after the jam. It got a lot of potential to be something bigger in my opinion. I would play it. GG C:
I really liked how the puzzles were handled. And the graphics are so charming and go like a glove along with the music and sfx. Really cool game
very fun !! i love the mood, graphics humor :)
Every time I thought the puzzle had reached its upper limit, the next level gave me a shock right now. Great Imagination!