Furriend: A Paw-some Summoning Odyssey by LDJam user 359614
A lonely magician wants to make friends, but sadly, She's too afraid to start a conversation. How She will solve it? Yep, a paw-some companion is all you need!
Relax yourself while solving the puzzle. Drag the summoning circle around to summon various pets and fill the arena with lots of addorable companions and enjoy the view while listening to the calming musics.
Enjoy 20 levels that divided into 5 theme. Can you solve it all?

Play the game here: https://pralista.itch.io/furriend
| Link | https://pralista.itch.io/furriend |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/furriend-a-paw-some-summoning-odyssey |
Ratings
| Overall | 10th | 4.429⭐ | 58🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 36th | 4.259⭐ | 58🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 167th | 3.884⭐ | 58🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 406th | 3.902⭐ | 58🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 16th | 4.688⭐ | 58🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 12th | 4.418⭐ | 57🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 13th | 4.5⭐ | 58🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 21🗳️ | 53🗨️ |
I appreciate the twist on the summoning theme (i.e. thanks for not making another ghost platformer)! The gameplay is simple, artstyle is adorable, and mechanics are brilliant. Also, I would like to appreciate the fact that you gave me an option to switch between perspective and orthographic.
A few things I would have really appreciated,
1) That the summoning circles be controllable with keyboard input like WASD
2) That the camera be free to turn/spin around the game field
3) Some form or tutorial or intro screen, since I didn't understand how to move the summoning circle until I read the game's description from the ldjam website. Ideally, a game should have all relevant info in the game itself
You've earned yourself a top score. Enjoy!
P.S. the ldjam website allows you to upload a WebGL build directly on the game page!
It take me a few times to find out what to do at first. But then, I can no longer stop to finish all levels.
Overall a really good game - Gave a nice jam!
Diabolical
The art style is SO CUTE and the gameplay is a fun challenge! I am really impressed by the extra polish on things like the score sliding in/out between levels, the little idle animation (and bloop sound!!!) on the animals, the floating title card in the menu, and the orthographic / perspective switch. The music choice was perfect, too :D
Huge amount of content for a beautiful and really well crafted game !
The possibility to rewrite path took me by surprise by how good it is.
Small bug: you can erase invocation circles by combining them and then reversing.
I like the graphics, the sketch, the sound effect, and the animation of this game.
This is a game that I would play on my free time when I'm bored.
But I was kinda confused to differentiate the dog and the cat, because they look pretty similar🤔.
Really loved the opening to the game.
Gameplay was well explained and very addicting.
Art style and sound design were absolutely charming!
Also cool to see another fellow puzzle game about summoning cute animals :)
Well done!
It is so well polished, so cute, sounds great, and fun! Really, great job!
Only small criticisms would be some sort of way to undo previous moves (unless there was one I just couldn't find) and making it easier to differentiate the circles for cats and dogs. These are just small nitpicks though. The game was fantastic.
One complaint is that I found it difficult to tell which summoning circle corresponded to which animal on the side.
And THIS

THIS! Too cute!!
And the puzzle levels visuals are so polished, everything just looks so perfect and complete, very impressive +_+
The puzzle gameplay was good and clever - I didn't beat all the levels as I'm just a bit too impatient in general for lots of these games, but what I played was very fun.
Hello folks! It's really been a while since the Jam is over.
We trully appreciate all your support and lovely feedbacks on the event. While reading your feedbacks and considering the potential of this game, we thought that we really want to push this game further. So, after working the hardest with my team here, I want to share the good news that Furriend now is available on Steam! Yay!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2981800/Furriend/
You can play the game for free, but if you really like the game and want more please give our DLC a try! We tried our best to create 100 challenging levels there :smile:
Hope you enjoy our work and please let me know if you have any feedbacks regarding the game. Cheers all and stay safe! :smile_cat:
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