Deceptive Summoning by zhang

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made by zhang for Ludum Dare 55 (JAM)

屏幕截图 2024-04-16 041834.png屏幕截图 2024-04-16 041905.png This is a decryption and reasoning game where players deduce the approximate meanings of the indigenous language to summon corresponding items.

Background: Your spaceship discovers indigenous inhabitants performing a summoning ritual on a planet. You send your friend to impersonate a deity summoned by the indigenous people to gain their trust and steal local resources. Your friend parachutes down but can't understand the indigenous language. The locals become suspicious and ask for help fulfilling their wishes. Though you can't understand them, AI analysis helps you grasp their needs. You must airdrop the correct items to pretend they're summoned by your friend, as giving wrong items could be disastrous.

Summon Item Airdrop: Drag the item you want to summon with the mouse onto the corresponding text

Feedback from indigenous residents: × Completely wrong, √ Completely correct, ? At least one aspect is correct.

Ratings

Given 6🗳️ 2🗨️

Feedback

LocksmithArmy
15. Apr 2024 · 22:20 UTC
Ooo this is clever. nice puzzler. the escalation of difficulty is pretty extreme, I would have like to see the characters I figured out in the first level help me in the second. slower difficulty ramp I guess.
Afterdose
16. Apr 2024 · 09:22 UTC
Thx for recognition and nice suggestions! Maybe we will make the puzzle more concrete and logically related later.
miyeee
16. Apr 2024 · 10:37 UTC
cool!
AshKetchdem
16. Apr 2024 · 10:39 UTC
This is a nice puzzle game. The graphics look nice and the animations/gravity on the items look fun too. It would be nice to have more clarity on what are the different 'aspects' although I figured it out after finally passing the first level. The soundtrack is fun, but more effects when you spawn items or when they land on the pile would definitely push the feel of the game more. Maybe some jibberish talking or chanting of the tribe would also add to the feel you are dealing with a tribe. I wish there was a little bit more room for mistakes, although I loved the laptop with the arrows through it for the bad ending. Maybe if instead of going 'game over' work with a score system in which you have unlimited tries, but the higher your score the worse your ending becomes. Overall, great fun entry and keep up the great work!
Brandsma
16. Apr 2024 · 10:47 UTC
Love the art style. Indeed the puzzle could have a better ramp-up in difficulty.
Nanmingle
16. Apr 2024 · 15:37 UTC
Very interesting visual effects. The increase in difficulty really stumped me. Looking forward to someone playing to the end to share! But as if the game isn't immersive enough? It's not obvious in terms of the storyline, maybe it would be more interesting to have a branching ending at the end, I need more time to experiment. Great game!
Vary
18. Apr 2024 · 01:13 UTC
Very interesting concept. I agree with the previous comments suggesting a slower escalation of difficulty to make it a so the player gets more familiar with the different symbols by encountering them. Neat proof of concept though!
DeltaMain
18. Apr 2024 · 09:27 UTC
Clever little game! I really liked the idea of trying to interpret unknown language by trial and error! One little thing I'd like this agme to have is some kind of easier progression? Right now it is possible to fail even with the best item selection strategy
Hylazu
19. Apr 2024 · 01:25 UTC
I love the concept of the game. That said, because the language is the same each time, it feels like you have to play each level multiple times until you gather enough information to figure out the symbols, giving me little feedback on my actual cleverness in being able to figure it out. For that reason, I would love if symbology changed between plays.