Out of Chalk by LDJam user 385905
Synopsis:
You are a demon summoner for hire, but you're out of chalk! Use objects in the room to create the required summoning sigils.

Controls:
Space: Toggle sigil reference notebook
Left Mouse: Click and drag items to move them around
WASD: Pan the camera around later levels
F5: toggle fullscreen
Credits: - coffe789: Code - neozoid: Art, music - vertigofy: Art, music, code
Note: When downloading, make sure to extract the zip, otherwise the game won't run. :) Downloadable version should be more performant than web.
| Link | https://coffe789.itch.io/out-of-chalk |
| Soundtrack | https://vertigofy.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-chalk-soundtrack |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/out-of-chalk |
Ratings
| Overall | 5th | 4.479⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 5th | 4.426⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 2th | 4.574⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 21th | 4.543⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 55th | 4.543⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 30th | 4.3⭐ | 47🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 33th | 4.313⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 31th | 4.396⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 40🗳️ | 34🗨️ |
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!!
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 loved the main game loop.
The artwork was very charming and the music helped to create a Zen like experience.
Great work!
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.
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!
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! ^^
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!