Pact Factory by LDJam user 2431
PLAY: https://tukisboolukis.itch.io/pact-factory
PACT FACTORY:
Mortal summoners make pacts with your master for demonic servants. Answer their summons with custom demons to fulfill their pacts and earn mortal souls. Your master demands a monthly quota of souls. Pay up, or you'll be fired!
Place flesh on the slab to combine it. Be careful when creating servants. All demonflesh is not equal, and pacts require specific talents to fulfill. Eat demonflesh to learn its secrets. Fresh meat will be delivered every month. Pacts expire after three months, so act fast to secure those sinners' souls. Hang your creations from the hook to save them for later. During the monthly report, you must pay your master enough souls to meet your quota. Souls come in four sinful varieties (but there aren't currently any differences in them). Your quota is raised by 1 every time you fail a pact or let one expire, so be careful!
Welcome to the underworld.
CREDITS:
Tukisboolukis: Code and design
TheSmellofOxygen: Art, music, design
Sounds by Pixabay and user Floraphonic under Creative Commons Zero license.
TOOLS:
Godot 3.5
Aseprite
Audacity
BitDragon
BUGS
We are aware there are many bugs with the original release. If you are having trouble submitting a demon for a pact, check if the pentacle beneath it is fully lit up. If not, light the candles or wait for them to ignite themselves, then you may send the servant.
While not a "bug," there is currently no reason to save/spend specific types of souls in the monthly report. We had planned on a "spawning "pit" below the main workshop area that you could feed specific soul types into to influence the other-wise random distribution of demon parts you get at the start of the next month. This was planned to help players strategize when they couldn't fulfill a pact the month they received it. Similarly a part re-roller might have helped.
Currently you can overpay your boss during the monthly report by exceeding your monthly quota and continuing to press the soul buttons. Be careful not to give your boss extra souls for free! You'll need them.
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/pact-factory |
Ratings
| Overall | 621th | 3.526⭐ | 41🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 771th | 3.257⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 377th | 3.579⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 166th | 4.205⭐ | 41🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 188th | 4.295⭐ | 41🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 292th | 3.694⭐ | 38🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 630th | 2.957⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 266th | 3.923⭐ | 41🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 38🗳️ | 65🗨️ |
I also found something! 
There is a bug that somewhat confused me at the start:
Speed and Charm on the slab are mixed up so I didn't know what to trust at first. Decided to trust the flesh's characteristics and was right. If you're afraid of submitting bug fixes - don't be, small bug fixes (without new features) are allowed after the deadline!
Other than that, wow this game is great. The mechanics, the theme, the music and graphics are beautiful and complement each other. I think I'm going to return to it later. I'm looking forward to further development of this game if you want to do so!
I didn't realize I could go to the next month and still have the pacts available to complete. I double checked and it wasn't in the tutorial, so you may want to add a line about that, or put in some text on the pacts themselves that show "DEADline in 3 months" or something like that. I know there is the visual indicator if you do skip, but my issue was not knowing I could skip without failing.
The only other lil QoL thing I would say to add is the quota. You can't actually see it while playing, instead the player must remember what the previous month's quota was plus any modifiers they might have gotten. Simply putting it in the bottom left souls counter would solve this issue so instead of "👻 7" you could have "👻 7/5" if the quota was 5.
These are super minor things that would just be quality of life adjustments. Overall I really think the game is fantastic!