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The Wrong Book

By adam-gould

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall404.0142
Fun404.0042
Innovation1713.3542
Theme274.3042
Graphics1993.3342
Audio24.5342
Humor184.0941
Mood543.8842

Comments

milk 2024-04-14 23:55

10/10 voice acting

manabreak 2024-04-15 08:42

Heeeeey, I beat the game - *DUN DUN DUN DUN* Heeeeey, I beat the game! Absolutely amazing game, took most of my lunch break with this. I love you included voice acting, and the end music was the chef's kiss. :)

adam-gould 2024-04-15 08:57

@manabreak My siblings and my wife have been singing it at me near-constantly since I uploaded it. No regrets.

impalpable 2024-04-15 14:48

10/10 voice acting seconded!!!! this was absolutely fantastic!

piero-pbes-studio 2024-04-15 20:40

zut I caused the apocalypse! Very nice idle game... like the others people I find that the music and sounds are really good... everything is rather funny. On the other hand when I played in full screen, the texts were tiny and it was difficult to understand the game. So i let the game in a tiny window and zoomed my screen manually and it was more comfortable. Thanks also to the cultists who don't need to be clicked on to provide materials.

adam-gould 2024-04-15 21:00

@piero-pbes-studio I did have the UI scale up to avoid that problem, but at the last minute I realised that it breaks the tooltip and context menu popups so I had to disable it :(

konstantinreed 2024-04-16 14:51

I enjoyed spending some time figuring out the game. Thanks for the work!

bry 2024-04-16 15:00

Fun experience. Good amount of content for a compo submission.

unbreakable 2024-04-16 15:48

Impressive efforts sir! Surprisingly feature complete. Good job! Took me 18 minutes to complete it!

digitaliliad 2024-04-16 16:01

Idle game with strong RTS vibes (especially the unit voice lines). The VO overall was such a devious treat. Thank you!

storeyware 2024-04-16 16:05

that was awesome haha. Favorite game of the jam thus far. The only negative I have is that it took a lil bit of idle gaming before I figured out the pie mechanic. (thank you for allowing the idle repeating mechanics!)

*hums 'heeey you beat the game...'*

wujood 2024-04-16 16:20

Great entry! I had a lot of fun building my empire of demons :smile: i was thinking about commenting something like "automation would be nice" and the i saw the research options :smile: very satisfying!

adam-gould 2024-04-16 16:28

@storeyware _they beat the game_

atomicptr 2024-04-16 16:33

Interesting, the voice acting is fantastic lol

muhyrla 2024-04-16 16:40

game_try.png finished it in 15m, like it, backing me into some sort of clickers i think?

i also found a bug, when you can put any structure on where imp stands

joeshanahan 2024-04-16 16:41

Incredible entry, it feels super complete, the voice adds so much and is also very funny. It's often risky for a dev to do their own VO but you pulled it off perfectly. And the ending was brilliant too. I love a good incremental game. This will definitely score near the top for humour, and I think pretty high overall too - loved this one!

rolferm 2024-04-16 16:50

That was pretty fun :D

aweskybear 2024-04-16 17:06

Very very sweet entry, congrats :) . I don't usually play these types of games, but this one was very hooky! Bravo!

Played just a bit, probably even with the bug on.. I will try the downloadable in some time, thanks!

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idontgetit1 2024-04-16 17:36

Very fun game and incredible voice acting. The upgrades go surprisingly deep and the game itself is extremly satisfying. Overall well done.

sodaro 2024-04-16 20:15

Extremely well done! The voice acting is hilarious and the gameplay has enough changes to not too repetitive for the duration it lasts :smile: I would have loved some keyboard shortcuts or the selection not being cleared for every click though!

joeshanahan 2024-04-16 20:46

I made a video compilation and this game is part of it! Hope it's useful for you! https://youtu.be/NJKVSQgn7-E?si=pIClVOYC3hTwkT0Y

joeshanahan 2024-04-16 21:21

...also had to go back and beat my previous time

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mephistase 2024-04-17 08:12

This game is a perfect experience. It is funny, it is well made, the audio is of rare quality, and there is a well-conveyed plot! Congratulations!

heytherewill 2024-04-17 08:18

At first I thought "Is this a Tim Minchin reference?" when I saw the name of the game. After beating it, I'm 90% sure it is, but I'd still love it if you could confirm.

I really hope you win Compo, this is the most fun I've had so far in this LD :D

adam-gould 2024-04-17 08:52

@heytherewill not consciously - I am however a big Minchin fan (narrowly missed out on an opportunity to see him live 12 years ago which I'm still kicking myself over) so maybe some of his influence crept in a bit!

And thank you for the kind words!

jack12342 2024-04-17 09:18

Cool game! I enjoyed the gameplay and the RTS vibes from the voice acting. Nice graphics, audio and song :) The only slight inconvenience is that when the window with the selection of an action is open and it is not active, because there are not enough resources for it, I expected that when the resources appeared, it would become active, but I had to open the selection window again. Nevertheless, the impression of the game is very positive. 123.png

iluvatar 2024-04-17 09:49

Audio definitely 5/5! The gameplay is rather simple, but it is fun and that's the best combination you can have on Ludum Dare jam. I haven't experienced any problems, it was fun, and I was able to play on my own pace, I appreciate that there were no timers, or "hurry!!!" mechanics. I was able to read everything carefully, and enjoy the game.

Brother, how are you not a professional voice actor?!

luka420 2024-04-17 11:25

Amazing voice acting! Loved your game

monkseal 2024-04-18 02:30

This game make you realized how good it feels to have passive income and have daemon works for you, 10/10 it's too fun, i need more

thatsommes 2024-04-18 13:26

This was fun!! Hated all the clicking in the start, but the reliefe I got from automation was perfect!

I enjoy this type of game and the theme was amazing!

I tryly expected the Last summoning to be another burger, all that work, and you get a burger.

adam-gould 2024-04-18 16:40

@thatsommes honestly, I considered it. If I ran out of time, it was going to be a second burger :laughing:

oadt 2024-04-20 16:09

This was well constructed and fun! At fist I was a bit disappointed that you have to always repeat the commands, but that (partially) got solved later by researching automation :smile: I only had some difficulties finding the mechanic to get cakes, so I was stuck for a while to get the last summoning circle.

Remembered to have played a game of you some jams ago, so wasn't surprised about the superb voice acting, the ending song got me by surprise though :smile: Surely that was the music Lovecraft had in mind when the old ones awake

chybby 2024-04-21 14:39

That was actually really fun! And the song at the end was the icing on the cake.

kanity 2024-04-22 17:34

Voice over sounds professional, it is really really good! Mechanics are well thought-out, progression seems to be smooth, not to slow or too fast, and I like pixel-y style. I'd say sprites of my followers and shrines I liked especially, more than my summons. Looking with options of Devourer, wow that got darker xD Very good theme representation imo!