Grishnek Legacy by D0vid
🎩🔮 Attention all brave souls and adventurous spirits! 🎩🔮
Are you tired of the mundane, the ordinary, the utterly vanilla existence? Do you yearn for a dash of danger, a pinch of peril, and a sprinkle of sorcery in your life? Look no further, for great warlock Grishnek is here to spice up your daily routine!
Picture this: a dark, ominous castle perched atop a mountain peak, lightning crackling in the sky, and the faint scent of brimstone in the air. That's where you'll find Grishnek, brewing his nefarious plans and conjuring unspeakable horrors from the depths of the abyss.
But wait, there's more! Grishnek needs YOU to assist in the summoning of an evil entity so malevolent, it makes your mother-in-law look like a fluffy bunny. Yes, YOU! Whether you're a seasoned sorcerer or just a humble peasant with a knack for trouble, your skills are needed to bring forth this wicked being and wreak havoc upon the land.
Combine tapping the correct runes to the rhythm and drawing the correct glyphs in a shortish window to succeed.
Our second participation with my friend @aeoncl, we hope you enjoy our game :)
The game is playable in a browser, with mouse and keyboard only.
Controls : WASD, Spacebar, Mouse
Visit the itch.io link to play : https://d0v1d.itch.io/ld55
Offline leaderboard :
| Rank | Name | Wave | Combo | |------|-----------------------------------------------------|------|-------| | 1 | @toc | 16 | ? | | 2 | @fusionnist | 11 | 84 | | 3 | @fanatrick | 11 | ? |

| Link | https://d0v1d.itch.io/ld55 |
| Link | https://github.com/D0vid/LD55 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/grishnek-legacy |
Ratings
| Overall | 191th | 3.966⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 113th | 4.034⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 241th | 3.768⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 466th | 3.81⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 362th | 4⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 160th | 3.929⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 421th | 3.32⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 145th | 4.074⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 21🗳️ | 32🗨️ |
I did find out that just putting any small line inside the glyph shapes counts as a success, you do not need to draw the whole shape. This made the game a lot easier, but it felt like cheating :smirk:.
I made it to wave 16 that way. does the game have a final wave or is it endless?
Unfortunately, we didn't have enough time to try to fix that "cheat" :( We had already spent lots of hours to try and make the system work, for the sake of fairness, we hope people will still try to trace the symbols ;)
Congrats on getting to wave 16 though, that's impressive :D
The game is indeed endless and gets faster every wave after a while. We wouldn't want Grishnek to ACTUALLY summon an abomination, right :D
Have a nice Jam!
and start cut scene it's cool
and music of course
and gameplay it's really fun (but it may be harder for touchpad users, if you are planning to make postjam you can make penup-pendown button I think)
Conspiracy theory: grishnek is a fallen angel, look at his death animation
The drawing gameplay was hard to implement I guess, so kudos for that!
Maybe some more articulated sounds for the success/failure would be nice.
I didn't had time to enjoy the graphics because of the gameplay in the middle.
Thank you for stopping by!

