Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD55 → My First Summoning
By oller125
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 299 | 2.94 | 21 | |
| Fun | 340 | 2.47 | 21 | |
| Innovation | 218 | 3.15 | 21 | |
| Theme | 33 | 4.26 | 21 | |
| Graphics | 214 | 3.26 | 21 | |
| Audio | 133 | 3.33 | 20 | |
| Humor | 101 | 3.34 | 21 | |
| Mood | 171 | 3.34 | 21 |
Boy that are way too many instructions for the first level. Maybe there is only one level?Sorry, I'm not in the mood to replay the game as I occupied the middle section where I needed to put the skull on page 5. The speaking voice is nice and made me smile. The music is upbeat and gave a nice mood to not make life as scarry as it could have been with those summoning creatures that I'm playing all day :id:
I did not succeeded, but I had fun trying. The idea is fun, and I liked the visuals and the music. Overall it felt like a pretty good jam game.
The liked the sound design and that you followed the theme in a direct but interesting way.
A funny and simple game. The friendly smiling demon at the end is a great punchline. Unfortunately one of the "broken" phrases has 4 possible alternatives, while the other has 2, which means the game takes up to 8 attempts to win if that's the _only_ thing you're unsure about. I was also unsure about candle placement, though, which meant the ceiling on the number of required attempts for me was closer to 32. A hint about what specifically you got wrong when you fail might help with this. The "abomination" was also covered up by the book when it appeared, so to me it just looked like a particularly sad dude.
Instructions are unclear.
2. What does points that follow from the place you put the first candle mean. Follow around the circle to the left? right? both? Across the pentagram? 7. There is no "et and no "prof" in the list so not sure what to do..
There are too many points of failure to try all the combinations of them so I gave up. Maybe I could win if there was some indication of what I did wrong.
Aii, so many instructions, with some being unclear or incomplete: so many things that can go wrong! It took me quite some tries, in the end I used Google Translate to find the right words. ;) But in the end I finally managed to summon the deamon! It was a pity that the book covered the spirits that I summoned. Fun take on the theme. :)
Difficult to summon, instructions unclear, summoned thing instead. I like how the music makes this what may have been a serious-creepy thing into a silly "lets see what happens" in a whimsical kind of sillyness. I suspect the cut-off words is randomized each time, but I'm not quite sure. Good work!
Interesting game. It was sometimes hard to read what word needed to be selected next, due to the torn corner in the notebook. Some kind of progress indicator as you're saying the words -- perhaps having the phrase stay on screen until it's complete -- would ease some of the frustration. But otherwise, a very good effort. Well done!
Honestly? I love this KJDSJKDS. It's like Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, but instead of diffusing a bomb, you have to decipher a cryptic book of instructions to summon a demon. I wasn't a big fan of the blind guessing at the words, but I really liked the logical puzzles of figuring out where to place the candles, and what offerings to give the demon. Eventually, I realized that the latin words formed an actual sentence, and then my rudimentary knowledge of latin actually turned out to be useful! x3 If it weren't for that, I definitely would have given up. Banking on your players knowing latin, or just randomly guessing a bunch of times, is kinda messed up, but at least this time it worked in my favor lol! Liked the art, sounds, music and aesthetic quite a lot too.
Having the ritual becoming harder and harder to decipher as you went along was cool, though it did feel like one of the words didn't exist in my options. I think it was "in" or something like that (was in the third and final stage).