Summoning for Hungry Wizards by TheMoonrise
The archmage is hungry. There's only one thing you can do...
You must channel arcane powers to summon a (delicious?) pizza.

So, how does this work?
#1 Draw runes to summon ingredients
Just draw some shapes and see what happens
#2 Figure out the rules of how to each ingredient is summoned
Maybe it's about the number of corners, or whether it is closed, or the size...
#3 Combine rules to summon all required ingredients at the same time
Some of the rules can be combined into one shape, because...
#4 ...if you draw too many runes you will summon the lemon
And lemons taste bad on pizza :lemon::x:

And that's how you do it, buon appetito :pizza:
Thanks for playing ~remusnomos ~TheMoonrise
| Link | https://themoonrise.itch.io/summoning-for-hungry-wizards |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/summoning-for-hungry-wizards |
Ratings
| Overall | 291th | 3.838⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 353th | 3.703⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 72th | 4.068⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 45th | 4.419⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 235th | 4.216⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 130th | 3.932⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 286th | 3.892⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 50🗳️ | 37🗨️ |
I also could not figure out how the process for the puzzle is supposed to work. I managed to get a combination like flour+water that should have worked from what I saw on the cheat sheet, but adding everything else in one attempt never worked out for me.
I had fun, well done!

This took me a while, but I loved every second of it.
My favourite little piece of polish was the whisper chant playing during drawing. Very nicely done!
I managed to individually summon all ingredients, and could combine those individual markings up until like 4, and then when I started adding more it always became a lemon. So I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong there...
Since not everyone seems to get to enjoy the delicious pineapple pizza at the end, I've put together an overview of the rules and some tips for the solution (SPOILER alert) → https://pastebin.com/jB1AvrvV
If you want to get something more visual, just take a look at the screenshots on this ld-page and in the comments.
The generic Italian music that played at the end once I got the pizza had me on the floor, the voice lines that played periodically as well were hilarious, it really gave the vibe of being a frustrated wizard who just wants some damn pizza.
All around a great entry and I just have to say congrats, you guys knocked it out of the park!
I'm looking forward to pizza night on Wednesday now though! XD
Loved it, even if I couldn't draw a pizza!
I love the art, nice submission had a really good time


Great Evil Dead Necronomicon-style sound effects as well.