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It was pretty tough to figure out at first and spell casting was so fast paced that I found myself relying on the same 2 spells I had memorized. It's a unique and interesting take on the theme, would love to see it improved and expanded further! :smile: ","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1052941,"author_name":"LDJam user 388364","author_uid":"388364","epoch":1713343809,"text":"Very cool! Sometimes its a bit hard with swapping between pages but after remembering it got easier and was more fun. Well done","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1053201,"author_name":"Pigeonic","author_uid":"pigeonic","epoch":1713346862,"text":"Nice approach on the theme! I had a bit of trouble with the time aspect of it, maybe a turn-base mechanic or some kind of timer between each spell would help? I see a lot of potential in it, keep at it!","format":"md","likes":4,"spam":"N"},{"id":1054131,"author_name":"TentacleDream","author_uid":"tentacledream","epoch":1713356174,"text":"@letssnack Thank you very much, I forgot to mention that Memorizing the spell is the main key to victory. That's why I placed the page with magic circles and the page with runes so far apart)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1071693,"author_name":"ljol3","author_uid":"ljol3","epoch":1713842162,"text":"This gave me nostalgic 2000's era flash game vibes.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1072248,"author_name":"Platore","author_uid":"platore","epoch":1713899248,"text":"Hello there !\nNice game, good job ! \nA litle bit difficult to summom in reaction of the ennemy's spell. And maybe having all the elements needed to do a summom in a same place, would have been nice.\nBut overall it's a nice game with good vibes ! 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The summoning entities look adorable - I'm an especially big fan of the slime.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1078803,"author_name":"N0va","author_uid":"n0va","epoch":1714772436,"text":"Very charming game. Took me a while to figure out how to go about this, but once I did it was fun. 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