The game is pretty cute but I can't play it IDK why T^T

The gameplay is super original and the 3D modelling and general atmosphere of the game is adorable (yes, even if you use forbidden relics heheh). I like it a lot ! :D

OMG I REALLY ENJOYED IT!! Despite the time limit i still felt relaxed. And sound design is amazing!

This game is so fucking cool I absolutely love the execution great game I do think some of the shapes are too hard to draw but I had a blast trying to optimize how I draw them.

Great concept, love the combination of drawing and idle game. Very well executed, congratulations!

Really cool graphics! I very much enjoyed the novelty of the hands redrawing what I did :)

Cool concept.
Nice little idle game sort of!
Nice graphics, Good job!

Nice game, but I am missing some incentive to play it longer than 10 minutes

Can honestly say I had a lot of fun with this one. Found myself getting quite invested in the game loop, though it does make me wish I had a tablet hooked up haha. Only thing I would say is it would be nice if there was some back ground music. Felt a little bit empty on the sound side, though the effects you do have are nice.

/s Never have I felt more attacked for using a trackball

This game's vibe is super chill, I really like it! The art is so cute, and I like the drawing mechanic, it's very vibey, great work!

Had a lot of fun, great work. Very well executed!

This is one of the best I've seen so far this season. You're cool

I have spent an unholy amount of time playing this) It's very slow at first but it's fun later in game

Wow I loved this game. The art is adorable and great. Watching the hands draw my lines on the books was a great touch. I wish the record button and blood button had a physical keyboard button that I could hit instead of clicking on it.

This is weirdly addicting for a game that asks, "Are you good at using your mouse?" Especially given that my answer is, "No."

Best idle game I've ever played

Very very GOOD ! Loved the mix of an idle game and the little sketch, very clever game that I definitively put too much time testing and playing XD !

Awesome game, I love the graphics and the music. A very fun game and I expect it to be even better on a tablet. Great job.

Really beautiful game, the concept is so fun, I really like how smooth the hand reproduce my drawings.
It look really polished, well done

very beautiful graphics in the game, interesting gameplay

This feels really good and looks great aswell! Love the drawing and how the little hands repeats the movements! great work!

Wow, this is the best game I've played so far and it will be very hard to top it. The idea is amazing, original, perfectly fits the theme. It's so satisfying to watch all your previous drawings. Both 2D and 3D art is great. Overall the game feels very polished. It probably would have been even better with a touch screen, so maybe consider making a mobile version.

Very cool visual aesthetics! Also, I very LIKED the drawing mechanic, it works very well and makes the player to stay in the game!
Two thought about what I didn't like:
1. In later parts of the game book price is very high. But when you spend 900+ souls, you have a chance to get the simplest book and you have to wait two or so minutes to buy another one :(
2. Summon process is very long to wait :( It would be great to see multiple summons, but less in time for each.

Thank you for your hard work on the game!

Fun and chill game, it's a good idea to draw glyph as the main mechanic.
It's a bit hard to draw with the mouse I think it would be easier with a stylus.
I love the art style too, good job !

The idea of drawing and summoning is interesting, and I really liked the graphics. Good job!

A great idea, interesting addition to clickers. But it's so hard to draw this runes with given "time". I wasn't even close. So for me working tactic was to fast and randomly move a mouse, to make the list almost filled. And in the end use half of blood to fill specific places.
IMO, it'd be better if you remove blood limit and let player draw as long as it wants, but faster drawing makes more spirits per second. And ofcourse in this case you should punish player for drawing in wrong places.
Anyway, great idea, you can make a really interesting and unique clicker with that. Thanks!

Pretty fun idle game with a cool mechanic! The graphics are lovely too!

Love the game! Art is super cute and the vibe themed well. Had a lot of fun playing ^^

Tiny suggestions: UI can be a bit confusing. It was hard for me to figure out how to start recording, and I took even longer to figure out the refill button. Some UI designing here would be great^^ (Like highlighting the refill button when out of ink, also highlight the start button) Also it's easy to accidentally close the book when trying to refill in a rush. All small nice-to-have points though

Great game overall and loved to see an expanded version!

Oh no, I think I've spent toooo much time with this game...
5 stars obviuosly, devilishly addictive!

Suuuuuper cute! Absolutely adore the tiny little ghosts ^^

Huge congrats for this entry, it is the best game I've tried in this LudumDare so far. Very original and very well executed idea, with very smooth visuals. 10/10


Great work!!!

PD: I also made an incremental/idle game for this LD (much simpler, though) just in case you wanna try it :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

I really liked the concept but I had a lot of trouble drawing the glyphs fast enough. Any of the more complicated glyphs felt impossible, so I just had to use the easier ones and eventually boost my souls with 4 candles to beat the game. I think I also just had bad luck with items and had to wait a while to get the right ones. I'm with some balancing I would really love this game. Other than that, looks and sounds great! Nice job!

I like this game! You guys are great!

Nice style! SFX great!

it took me way too long to realize I was supposed to put the upgrades on the stumps haha. I might just be slow but that could potentially be shown when hovering over an upgrade item to maybe show some outlines or some indicators over each empty stump. So then you see the information of what the upgrade does as well as where you could put it. Either way 5/5 game, you guys nailed it.

So much fun, I wish I could play it on a drawing display, could be an amazing game for iPad for example. Really well polished and overall fun experience, thank you and congratulations!

Great idea, great execution!

huge fan, i loved every bit of this!

Very good and chill game with fun mechanics and a really nice art style. I'm really surprised you could pull this off in just 3 days of work.

I'm a fan! Followed you on itch and now waiting for an official steam release. Please tell me you will actually make a full game out of this.

I really enjoyed this. The best visuals in the game jam so far for me.

I loved this! It was a super clever twist on the cookie clicker type of games, where some dexterity skill was mixed in. It worked really well too, with the cool upgrades which actually felt meaningfull and quite a large variery of diagrams to draw (some of which were really hard!)

The art was also super cute and fit the theme wonderfully! Really well done! I enjoyed this one quite a bit :D

Super cute game. Great art. Very innovative!

Wow you invented a really cool new mechanic for idle games! Love this!

game really interesting, and great quality for jam, but I cant find more action after 10 minutes of gameplay

Cute game with strong game loop. This was really fitting with the theme. As I am not good drawing with a mouse I had to test this on Huion kamvas and it was interesting. I am not sure if it was the drawing tablet or something else but I had trouble with lines not rendering. Drawing reacted with filling the bar and blood was drawn but only few vertexes we drawn on screen.

Chill af.

Really original interpretation for a clicker. Cute visual and juicy vfx pulled me in for a long time)
Congrats!

I really enjoyed this game! Watching the cursors make all my mistakes again was fantastic! If I were to want two things, it would be the ability to swap upgrades (so you don't have to drag one off before dragging the other one on) and also a visual indicator of which part of the rune is missing when you're at 98% and 99% and just swiping madly hoping you find the one pixel you needed.

Very fun game, I think the art style is great! This would be great on mobile!

This is such a skill based clicker game haha. My hand cramped a little trying to redraw the drawings faster and faster :'))) But it was fine eventually and I did it!!! Did not expect an idle game to be so hard haha. I love it!

very polished game ! just one note, even if there is an icon for music i haven't had any during my playing. but overall its a brilliant game idea ! I love all the little details in this game ! And soo cute art style!!
a screen a bit before i accidentelly close the game tab -.-'''

Super cute artstyle, I like it a lot!!

I also like the gameplay, it's simple but very addictive, I have been playing for quite a bit. I like the variety of patterns it keeps things fresh, great entry!

Love this, best one I've played so far.

This game instantly caught my eye for it's beautiful artstyle and how polished it is! I love your take on the theme and had a lot of fun playing the game. I also really like the difficulty progression and the SFX. Only thing is I felt it was to hard to play with a mouse, and I thought it would be perfect to play with drawing tablet! However, the game didn't register my tablet :(

I really wish my graphics tablet would work here :D


It's a very nice and cozy concept with unique mechanics. Enjoyed playing it :)

I can't use my wacom but still love it :P

Real neat and unique, managed to hit a 112/sec before calling it quits. Lovely assets, loved the little ghost guy!

awesome game! Loved the drawing gameplay, nice idea!

Runes? Interesting. We used that idea too. It's awesome! The visuals are very cool! Keep up the good work!

WHAT A BLAST OF A Game
simple yet very intuitive and engaging
had a blast playing it
10/10

Cool game, but I wish it had a small in-game tutorial. I came from the itch page and had no idea what I had to be doing until I saw the description on this page.

I like the game! Adding some end game screen would be nice.

really cool idea, love the cute little ghosts, good job!

All nice and cute ! I remember you guys from the chicken game which was already a classic, please keep on the good work this is brilliant :smiley: !

I really like this one ..

Summoning my time

Pretty cool ! Congrat

Super fun! Good old fashioned idle game, it scratches a special itch. Loved it! One thing I thought while playing was that it would be cool if upgrades affected only one line of books, that way there could be a bit of strategy for which books you pair with which upgrades. Played it quite a while, had lots of fun! Well done!

Great idea fits the theme really well

That's quite a cozy game to be honest. The start was a little bit slow, but later it started to make more and more sense. What I particularly like that every book have it's own cursor which kinda drawing the symbol in the exact same time & manner and player did - that's really nice touch to it all.

Fun game. I wish the sfx audio had a bit more variety as it did get kind of scratchy when I kept being a perfectionist and redrawing.
It's not something I usually think about how much harder it is to draw slight curves with a mouse than any lines.

We love to see another idler game in this jam! Idler gang unite!! XD Also, thanks a lot for playing our game, Emperor's Gems.

really love the concept, with some practice I was much better at drawing. Although I had to try a couple of times as the rng screwed me over and gave me just bones the first try. So I had a very bad luck there. The drawing sound is very scratchy and I had to unfortunately mute the sound but its sad because the other sfx were really nice and relaxing.

Overall, I had fun and wanted to see more.


Very charming game! I love the idea of a tycoon game like this, it's pretty unique. The graphics were lovely, so was the sound effects. Unfortunately, the music didn't seem to be working for me though. Good stuff!

Really charming and beautiful, does what it does very effectively! A little balance with how you get better book and perhaps more summons are really the only things missing from making this a complete experience.

Lovely work!

This is so well made and satisfying to play!

I love how the game records and shows the progress of drawing, and how it's not just about trying to draw with a mouse (I could plug in my graphic tablet I suppose... xD) and it being a challenge, it's also a bit of an idle/clicker game in its essence, and as such it feels complete and perfectly polished.

The visuals are flawless as well, and it just feels incredibly cozy <3

And for me, as someone who is very much a newbie in programming, it feels magical how you managed to create this whole system. In the vision I had for my game I wanted the player to draw the runes (as a mini game) themselves, but I didn't know how to do it, so resorted to showing a list of runes instead for the player to choose a correct one. But you also did so much more than just drawing - there is a small detail of having to refill your ink (blood?) and objects to make the process faster/easier, and that one thing I mentioned above that blew me away - showing *exactly* how I personally drew the symbol. Really, mind-blowing +_+

I think my only complaint is that sometimes games says I am done when I think I am not.


^Here, I first did the triangle and then went from left to right on the half-circle as it's easier for me to move in that way. I couldn't connect the lines - the game told me the symbol is ready and didn't let me draw anymore. I would love it if after *I* think I am done I could click outside the paper or on the REC button again to tell the game the symbol is ready, as my perfectionism is killing me with this gap (and that wasn't a single occurrence)

*It is nice, however, there is an option to try again. I didn't realize that right away! But the issue with the gaps still stands!

*Also, it would be great to add a saving option in the future, and with that it can already be published as a complete cozy game. Playing bit by bit in the evenings or during work breaks, with the ability to save my progress, would be such a nice and comforting experience ^v^

Favorite submission so far. Everything is perfect