The Arcane Artist by Savolae
Trying out spells may have disastrous results.
Paint the spells on the ground in an attempt to delay your demise.
Find forgotten tomes to learn the spells or figure them out via trial and error.
🎮 Controls
- 🏃♂️ Move - WASD
- 🎨 Paint - Mouse 1

Music from OpenGameArt
Note: The game doesn't seem to work well with Mac + Firefox or Safari, please use Chrome if drawing does not work ❤️
| Link | https://savolae.itch.io/the-arcane-artist |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/the-arcane-artist |
Ratings
| Overall | 142th | 4.013⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 111th | 4⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 23th | 4.303⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 867th | 3.5⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 654th | 3.689⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 767th | 2.806⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 422th | 3.727⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 75🗳️ | 52🗨️ |
Very cool mechanic. I liked how you had to run around to learn spells, but you could do them anyway once you've learned them once.
I never learned how to summon the hand, though I had it summoned a couple times by chance.
Perhaps, with a bit more time the game could become a full-fledged action game.
Great submission!

Thanks for making this game!
I was an absolute fan of Lost Magic when I was young so this is just the right mechanic for someone like me!
I laughed when I died by The hand on my first run.
Maybe the game is a bit too dark?
Great job and thanks for the game!