ancooper 2026-10-19 09:06 ♥ 1
It's a very addictive game. The tutorial, visuals, sound, and progression are all excellent!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD60 → Magic Abacus
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| Category | Rank | Score | Count | LD60 | Ever | |
| Overall | 15 | |||||
| Fun | 15 | |||||
| Innovation | 15 | |||||
| Theme | 15 | |||||
| Graphics | 1 | |||||
| Mood | 15 | |||||
It's a very addictive game. The tutorial, visuals, sound, and progression are all excellent!
learning the soroban by running a market stall, love that. flicking beads feels good and the first lesson is clear. the top bead was a bit fiddly to hit for me, maybe a bigger click area
Damn you, you tricked me into doing math! Love the style, and the effects have real punch. Had fun with this one :)
Awesome! I love some good math edutainment! And it works great!
I love a good mental arithmetic challenge. Very nice and polished.
such a great game! juicy and satisfying, but you also taught me how to use an abacus which i will always remember!
This was.... weirdly fun? What the heck?!
Super solid gameplay progression here, and just the right amount of juice to make the interactions feel fun and addictive while also teaching me a (albeit useless) skill.
Nice work!
Very nice, clever and addictive concept and game play. I had a good time on this, congratz 👏
It is a pretty fun game, very very well polish!
Very cleanly implemented entry, I found absolutely no bugs or hiccups whatsoever. Textbook example of using juice too. Nicely done!
It's simple, well made, no bugs, has nice visual effects and sound effects that are engaging. I'm not even mad there's no music, since it's educational, I feel like this works well as is. It'd be a nice little game for a school for sure. Well done!
What an interesting game. I really enjoyed it. I never knew how to use an abacus; now I have a rough idea. I don’t fully grasp it yet, but I’ve saved it to play more later. I really want to understand it properly.
The gameplay is very simple and straightforward. The hard part is getting the calculation right! :D
The graphics are nice, though I’ve seen these sprites in several other games, so I assume they come from some asset pack.
Do you know how to do calculations on a real abacus?
Congratulations! It’s really cool!
Thanks for feedback everyone! @euler-moises, yeah it is same as in-game abacus (japanese soroban version to be precise), only all rows of beads are unlocked from the start and it doesn't conjure items irl :D I have learned it some time ago because it is actually how people usually learn to calculate big numbers quickly in head and I thought it's a nice nerdy party trick.
Really fun game! I love how the mechanics gradually got harder. You also did really well in explaining the mechanics in a way that it wasn't too much reading or felt like a long tutorial.
This is such an innovative entry. Using the earliest tech for mathematics. I love it. I could feel my brain working so hard. We're so used to running on fast mode that when you get a problem that's so different to how we normally think about maths it really requires full processing. The challenge feels good and slowly building it up with the tutorial. Seems like a useful system to learn for the future.
The entire game feels really polished. Really great entry. Well done!
More hard and challenging than I expected! I was conviced I was better handling abacus until this game clearly tolds me I'm not that good 😅 Very innovative entry, and cute graphics adds a lot to the mood, well done!
The subtraction is harder than I anticipated hahaha. Cool little game, liked it. Nice graphics.