Devil's QWERTY by SakuH
Welcome to Hell’s most dysfunctional workplace - the Summoning Department! Where the coffee is always cold, the paperwork is eternal, and the office drama is hotter than a demon’s morning breath! 😈😈😈
Your job is to correctly decipher and type the summoning incantations coming from the mortal realm using the sticky notes as a key... and no coffee breaks allowed!
This game was made in 1 day - all art and sound was done by us.

Credit * Shuhmo - gamedev * JaakkoOhr - gamedev * yakkocmn - music & sfx * Pxlanni - art
Fonts used: - Alagard by Hewett Tsoi - DS-Terminal by Dusit Supasawat!
| Link | https://shuhmo.itch.io/devils-qwerty |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/devils-qwerty |
Ratings
| Given | 14🗳️ | 14🗨️ |
Beyond the environment the core game play loop is solid. The difficulty ramps at a great pace and really allows the player to familiarize themselves with the prompts and the decoding. Multiple times I was able to recognize prompts I had recently had which was really cool! There also is not "too much" going on at any given point. The symbols are manageable in the way that they are not overwhelming but not too little that they can be easily memorized.
I think I spent about 40 mins on this game but I was only able to get up to level 7 (i'm not the fastest typer) please let me know how many levels there are so I can make a goal to beat it!
I had just one problem, I couldn't guess this one letter :(

(And i can't write regular words quickly, especially with this mechanic :laughing:)
Nonetheless i like this one
@ruruie ya that would be cool. we just tried to keep the scope as simple as possible to have time to polish it properly.
@alpacalypse The prompts are procedurally generated so what did Carlsen do? :D
But I showed a non-jammer friend and he made a good point: the invocations being in latin and repeatable raises the skill ceiling in an interesting way. I did a couple by memory from looking at them.
Loved the game-loop <3
Game concept was super clever! The amount of non-symbol prompts in the start could probably be reduced some. But great submission!! 5 stars!

Love the game, visuals, and music. Fun prompts make the game super engaging too! The voice transition into music at the beginning of the song was super sick.
Good job, one of the favorites this jam!