Franz Bardon's Practice of Magical Evocation by kr4ft3r
Play now in your (hopefully modern and not too weird) browser! I can only guarantee for Chrome and Mozilla.
This is a match-3 game where you evoke the help of 360 spirits of the Earth zone. While encouraging everyone to cover the theme in a non-occult way, I myself have went for the occult :3 Having ran into data on 360 spirits from real life system of magic that was in plain JavaScript and up for grabs, I couldn't resist the temptation.
It is what it is, considering the late start I am happy with the result. I started Unity hoping to get inspired about what to make, but it crashed during first load, which I interpreted as a sign and so began a vanilla JavaScript project. Having no boilerplate code nor any experience with match-3 games there was little time for graphical polish, but I find it just barely pretty enough. Individual gameplay-related attributes of spirits are gotten by matching words in their descriptions, with varying success.
Credits:
- Coding and assets made by me
- The spirit data is borrowed from website https://earthzonespirits.firebaseapp.com/ that borrowed it from Franz Bardon's work, who borrowed most of it from the Book of Abrameline, and so on...
Tools and libraries:
- JavaScript
- Gimp
- Audacity
- howler.js libarry for audio
- anime.js libarry for animations
- https://sfxr.me/
- https://killedbyapixel.github.io/ZzFX/
| Link | https://krafter.itch.io/franz-bardons-practice-of-magical-evocation |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/franz-bardons-practice-of-magical-evocation |
Ratings
| Overall | 857th | 3.323⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 908th | 3.113⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 888th | 3.032⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1004th | 3.067⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 999th | 2.85⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 668th | 2.983⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 832th | 2.589⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 1066th | 2.931⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 24🗳️ | 46🗨️ |
Great submission though, nice job!
Also, I played for around 10 or 15 minutues, I never came across the scale to clear out. Are those more rare to get? The graphics need some polish in my opinion, but the core gameplay is there and if the player likes a good story, then this is a fun one to play indeed!
I love how you always try to innovate with different techniques and often create something that makes one think. Not one of your games look like your other games. That is impressive
Also: the scoring is nicely done, splitting it into two categories. I tried to end the game by doing bad moves, it took me a while. I wanted to see what happened when the board filled up
Oh, btw. I just installed Arc Browser (its in closed beta for Windows right now), so I found it pretty funny to see your notice on top after playing :laughing: I can confirm that it works on that one (I believe its chrome based)
The game's title is literally the name of the book and its author. I stole the data arrays from a website that is linked in credits. I guess spirits that help with legal issues (scales) are more rare, what each spirit helps with is based on matching words in their descriptions (though most don't match to anything and give single wildcard instead). I went with horizontal-only matching because it was giving me an enjoyable slow-game kind of feel that gives more dopamine when any match is made, but I failed in justifying that through visual cues or whatever, of course a lot of people will skip reading the instructions and will end up confused.
Take as much time as you need! I saw the highscores you set! You are still 4th on the leaderboard after at least 22 playthroughs :-)
Things I learnt:
- Sometimes problems solve themselves.
- Spinning around in a circle while looking at the sky is not entirely random, but not entirely reliable either.
Please give me something in the 3rd column PLEASE!
Pretty addicting lil game. Wish the blocks falling happened a little faster. Nice work!
Also, the division into the five ailments is a brilliant idea and I like the way you incorporated the spirit data. I was not even aware the latter existed — live and learn. Audio is top-notch and very rewarding. Definitely one of the better games I've played of late.