{"author_link":"\/users\/liam","author_name":"Liam","author_uid":1010440,"comments":[{"id":1032722,"author_name":"Rob6566","author_uid":"rob6566","epoch":1713152374,"text":"Cute little puzzle game - I like the idea! It would have been nice to get a bit more feedback on what I guessed wrong. I wasn't sure whether I should be spending all my mana on guys or not - this seemed a bit disconnected from the  puzzle. I also had a glitch with some of the numbers, so it was hard to see what the number was.\n![Screenshot 2024-04-15 at 1.38.57 pm.png](\/\/\/raw\/18b\/94\/z\/619b3.png)\n\nNice job getting this together in such a short time!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1033500,"author_name":"Liam","author_uid":"liam","epoch":1713175305,"text":"@rob6566 Thanks for playing! Yup the disconnect is a valid criticism, I think with more mana gain and purchase options it might have felt more connected. The phaser game does snap to 3 diff sizes depending on your screen so that bug looks like an issue with the fonts at a certain scale, I'll try to figure out, ta.\n\nMy earliest idea was to have a little animation when you summon to show where mistakes were but always pushed it down the TODO list. With hindsight, I could have made a quick overlay... :grimacing: ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1035335,"author_name":"Ahsoo","author_uid":"ahsoo","epoch":1713205498,"text":"I really like the idea of mixing a zen game with real time combat. The artstyle fits really well and the color palette stands out. What happened while playing is I came to a point where the number of humans I had almost guaranteed I would clear the enemies. I would love if the enemies kept coming which would add a *very stylish* timer element to the game. Also I suppose it's not a priority for a jam game, but a quick reset button would be nice to clear the board. \nI'm really enjoying this and want to keep playing till the end. Great work!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1055944,"author_name":"Liam","author_uid":"liam","epoch":1713374533,"text":"@ahsoo Appreciate the feedback and thanks for taking time to play. Yup, definitely a problem. One I've fixed in the post jam version. I'll post a link after voting ends.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1057481,"author_name":"happyhour","author_uid":"happyhour","epoch":1713387926,"text":"I'm a fan of picross so I was delighted to see an entry that used nonograms for the summoning theme. While there was no sense of urgency, that is what I enjoyed about it. I think it'd be great to see this developed further into a fleshed out puzzle game.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1078518,"author_name":"Baluj","author_uid":"baluj","epoch":1714754648,"text":"I like the idea, it seemed short but I would have liked it if you could put the x's with the right click of the mouse. Anyway it's a good game. Good job!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1078871,"author_name":"monika","author_uid":"monika","epoch":1714776346,"text":"First pass: \n\nThe idea is great and I love the graphics. I'm a bit confused though because I solved the puzzle correctly, hit \"summon\", was told there were no mistakes, and then it takes me back to the puzzle and doesn't let me do anything while two guys (in level 2) move across the screen? Are the X marks mandatory? (They usually aren't in other nonograms so I left them out because the starter puzzles were easy enough.)\n\nSecond pass: \n\nWent back to try after typing the first paragraph and see that I missed that the score page is also a store page. Is there a way to get back to it after you close it? If not, it's possible to get soft locked pretty easily like I did the first time, but I'm not seeing a way to open it after closing it. \n\nBut yeah, really enjoying this. Fun take on nonograms and fantastic art. Good work!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld55\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/hawkhelm.itch.io\/ld55","text":"Itch.io"},{"url":"https:\/\/ld55-summoning.netlify.app\/","text":"Alt Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/hawkstein\/ld55-summoning","text":"GitHub"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"93046","g_author":"1010440","g_event":"LD55","g_eventkey":"120","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"439198","g_title":"Summoning Grid","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"7","g_site2_node_id":"384109","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"384109","n_urlkey":"439198","n_parent":"383062","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/55\/summoning-grid","n_slug":"summoning-grid","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"10440","n_created":"1712221184","n_modified":"1778256345","n_version":"1211879","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD55","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":4,"author":10440,"body":"**Once again, Arch-Daemon Zur has been trapped in the 9 pits of hell by one of their rivals.**\n\n![Screenshot 2024-04-14 at 19.31.59.png](\/\/\/raw\/8c8\/2\/z\/6134f.png)\n\n## How to play\n\n- Each level is the arch-daemon summoning humans by marking the correct squares in a grid with a rune\n- This is a nonogram puzzle game\n- Click each tile to change from \"no rune\" => \"rune\" (white) => marked as \"no rune required\" (red)\n- The numbers next to each row and column indicate blocks of tiles which should be marked\n- They are in the correct order and must have an empty tile separating each group.\n- Waves of enemies attack and must be survived.\n- When the player wants they can check the puzzle solution by clicking \"Summon\". They are rewarded an amount of mana depending on how close to correct the solution was. Closer to perfect = more mana.\n- They then purchase humans to summon.\n- Once the wave is complete, they get a score based the enemies killed and if they got the puzzle correct.\n- ~~If their health drops to zero, the game ends.~~ NOT IMPLEMENTED\n- There are 9 levels to complete.\n\n## How to solve nonograms\n\nHow to solve the nonogram puzzle: https:\/\/delightfulpaths.com\/how-to-solve-nonogram-puzzles\nThis is a much better explanation of this type of puzzle game than my bullet points\n\nClicking the tile toggles through the states, the X is purely to help you mark a tile as definitely not required\n\n## Mini-mortem\n\nAlthough I'm pretty happy with the concept of using a nonogram as a puzzle for summoning, this didn't really come together within the 48 hours.\n\nSadly I was a bit sick and just had to work at a slower pace, such is life. Crucially I think a lack different of humans to make decisions about summoning, a lack of different enemy types in multiple waves and the un-implemented health for the demon keep this from feeling like a proper game. The demon is that placeholder red square at the bottom! The top black one was supposed to be a portal enemies emerged from.\n\nObviously I'd have liked to work on a little graphical polish, some audio and tweak the gameplay\/scoring\/balance but glad I finally got a highscore board into a game :laughing:\n\nI had fun making this little game that feels like a prototype and I am planning to develop more for fun. I think having multiple smaller nonograms that can be solved for waves of enemies might be a change it would benefit from. The larger ones are such a different pace to the one wave of enemies you have currently.\n\n# Thanks for reading and playing!\n","comments":7,"comments-timestamp":"2024-05-03T22:45:46Z","created":"2024-04-04T08:59:44Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"grade":{"grade-01":13,"grade-02":13,"grade-03":13,"grade-04":13,"grade-05":13,"grade-06":10,"grade-07":12,"grade-08":13},"id":384109,"love":0,"magic":{"cool":50,"feedback":2,"given":2.875,"grade":12.5,"grade-01-average":3.273,"grade-02-average":3.5,"grade-03-average":3.318,"grade-04-average":3.273,"grade-05-average":3.409,"grade-06-average":1.563,"grade-07-average":1.95,"grade-08-average":2.955,"smart":-44.3223563717},"meta":{"allow-anonymous-comments":"1","author":[10440],"cover":"\/\/\/content\/8c8\/2\/z\/61339.png","link-01":"https:\/\/hawkhelm.itch.io\/ld55","link-01-name":"Itch.io","link-01-tag":[42336],"link-02":"https:\/\/ld55-summoning.netlify.app\/","link-02-name":"Alt Web","link-02-tag":[42336],"link-03":"https:\/\/github.com\/hawkstein\/ld55-summoning","link-03-name":"GitHub","link-03-tag":[42332]},"meta-timestamp":"2026-05-08T16:05:45Z","modified":"2026-05-08T16:05:45Z","name":"Summoning Grid","node-timestamp":"2024-04-15T09:57:01Z","parent":383062,"parents":[1,5,9,383062],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/55\/summoning-grid","published":"2024-04-14T18:45:47Z","scope":"public","slug":"summoning-grid","subsubtype":"compo","subtype":"game","type":"item","version":1211879},"text":"**Once again, Arch-Daemon Zur has been trapped in the 9 pits of hell by one of their rivals.**\n\n![Screenshot 2024-04-14 at 19.31.59.png](\/\/\/raw\/8c8\/2\/z\/6134f.png)\n\n## How to play\n\n- Each level is the arch-daemon summoning humans by marking the correct squares in a grid with a rune\n- This is a nonogram puzzle game\n- Click each tile to change from \"no rune\" => \"rune\" (white) => marked as \"no rune required\" (red)\n- The numbers next to each row and column indicate blocks of tiles which should be marked\n- They are in the correct order and must have an empty tile separating each group.\n- Waves of enemies attack and must be survived.\n- When the player wants they can check the puzzle solution by clicking \"Summon\". They are rewarded an amount of mana depending on how close to correct the solution was. Closer to perfect = more mana.\n- They then purchase humans to summon.\n- Once the wave is complete, they get a score based the enemies killed and if they got the puzzle correct.\n- ~~If their health drops to zero, the game ends.~~ NOT IMPLEMENTED\n- There are 9 levels to complete.\n\n## How to solve nonograms\n\nHow to solve the nonogram puzzle: https:\/\/delightfulpaths.com\/how-to-solve-nonogram-puzzles\nThis is a much better explanation of this type of puzzle game than my bullet points\n\nClicking the tile toggles through the states, the X is purely to help you mark a tile as definitely not required\n\n## Mini-mortem\n\nAlthough I'm pretty happy with the concept of using a nonogram as a puzzle for summoning, this didn't really come together within the 48 hours.\n\nSadly I was a bit sick and just had to work at a slower pace, such is life. Crucially I think a lack different of humans to make decisions about summoning, a lack of different enemy types in multiple waves and the un-implemented health for the demon keep this from feeling like a proper game. The demon is that placeholder red square at the bottom! The top black one was supposed to be a portal enemies emerged from.\n\nObviously I'd have liked to work on a little graphical polish, some audio and tweak the gameplay\/scoring\/balance but glad I finally got a highscore board into a game :laughing:\n\nI had fun making this little game that feels like a prototype and I am planning to develop more for fun. I think having multiple smaller nonograms that can be solved for waves of enemies might be a change it would benefit from. The larger ones are such a different pace to the one wave of enemies you have currently.\n\n# Thanks for reading and playing!\n","title":"Summoning Grid","wayback_recovered":true,"wayback_source":{"capture":{"original":"https:\/\/api-jam.ludumdare.com\/vx\/node2\/get\/384001+384002+384003+384004+384005+384006+384007+384008+384009+384010+384011+384012+384013+384014+384015+384016+384017+384018+384019+384020+384021+384022+384023+384024+384025+384026+384027+384028+384029+384030+384031+384032+384033+384034+384035+384036+384037+384038+384039+384040+384041+384042+384043+384044+384045+384046+384047+384048+384049+384050+384051+384052+384053+384054+384055+384056+384057+384058+384059+384060+384061+384062+384063+384064+384065+384066+384067+384068+384069+384070+384071+384072+384073+384074+384075+384076+384077+384078+384079+384080+384081+384082+384083+384084+384085+384086+384087+384088+384089+384090+384091+384092+384093+384094+384095+384096+384097+384098+384099+384100+384101+384102+384103+384104+384105+384106+384107+384108+384109+384110+384111+384112+384113+384114+384115+384116+384117+384118+384119+384120+384121+384122+384123+384124+384125+384126+384127+384128+384129+384130+384131+384132+384133+384134+384135+384136+384137+384138+384139+384140+384141+384142+384143+384144+384145+384146+384147+384148+384149+384150+384151+384152+384153+384154+384155+384156+384157+384158+384159+384160+384161+384162+384163+384164+384165+384166+384167+384168+384169+384170+384171+384172+384173+384174+384175+384176+384177+384178+384179+384180+384181+384182+384183+384184+384185+384186+384187+384188+384189+384190+384191+384192+384193+384194+384195+384196+384197+384198+384199+384200+384201+384202+384203+384204+384205+384206+384207+384208+384209+384210+384211+384212+384213+384214+384215+384216+384217+384218+384219+384220+384221+384222+384223+384224+384225+384226+384227+384228+384229+384230+384231+384232+384233+384234+384235+384236+384237+384238+384239+384240+384241+384242+384243+384244+384245+384246+384247+384248+384249+384250+384251+384252+384253+384254+384255+384256+384257+384258+384259+384260+384261+384262+384263+384264+384265+384266+384267+384268+384269+384270+384271+384272+384273+384274+384275+384276+384277+384278+384279+384280+384281+384282+384283+384284+384285+384286+384287+384288+384289+384290+384291+384292+384293+384294+384295+384296+384297+384298+384299+384300+384301+384302+384303+384304+384305+384306+384307+384308+384309+384310+384311+384312+384313+384314+384315+384316+384317+384318+384319+384320+384321+384322+384323+384324+384325+384326+384327+384328+384329+384330+384331+384332+384333+384334+384335+384336+384337+384338+384339+384340+384341+384342+384343+384344+384345+384346+384347+384348+384349+384350+384351+384352+384353+384354+384355+384356+384357+384358+384359+384360+384361+384362+384363+384364+384365+384366+384367+384368+384369+384370+384371+384372+384373+384374+384375+384376+384377+384378+384379+384380+384381+384382+384383+384384+384385+384386+384387+384388+384389+384390+384391+384392+384393+384394+384395+384396+384397+384398+384399+384400+384401+384402+384403+384404+384405+384406+384407+384408+384409+384410+384411+384412+384413+384414+384415+384416+384417+384418+384419+384420+384421+384422+384423+384424+384425+384426+384427+384428+384429+384430+384431+384432+384433+384434+384435+384436+384437+384438+384439+384440+384441+384442+384443+384444+384445+384446+384447+384448+384449+384450+384451+384452+384453+384454+384455+384456+384457+384458+384459+384460+384461+384462+384463+384464+384465+384466+384467+384468+384469+384470+384471+384472+384473+384474+384475+384476+384477+384478+384479+384480+384481+384482+384483+384484+384485+384486+384487+384488+384489+384490+384491+384492+384493+384494+384495+384496+384497+384498+384499+384500?authors&parents&superparent"},"object":"objects\/sha256\/02\/029b8fb997c0c8194761a2d1f31778c67b7e81bf1554d9f2eb8e93a4b0513550","record":"shard-0\/json-live-urgent-v3\/records\/a394f2d4d35e6a7cd16acbc148f301ce9ad989fede953423dc2d2fd40a9c4be2.json","sha256":"029b8fb997c0c8194761a2d1f31778c67b7e81bf1554d9f2eb8e93a4b0513550","source":"https","stored_at":1784022501}}