Summoners Word by aevek
You are the great sorcerer Lord Dictio Nary, use your carefully prepared summoning circles to bring demons into this world by tracing the lines according to the hidden words. Find the hidden words in each layer of each circle, and marvel at the demonic chaos you have unleashed.
How to play: - Each ring has a word that starts and ends with the same letter as the 'correct' solution. - Any word that uses every letter in a ring and forms a loop by starting and ending with the same letter is an equally valid answer. - Click letters on screen or type them on the keyboard to select. Once a word is accepted the ring will immediately complete. - Use backspace or the on screen buttons to delete/clear your answer if you change your mind
Tools used: - Engine: Bevy 0.13 - Art: Aseprite - Words: The dictionary.txt file from my linux system
Known Bugs:
- There is a weird rendering issue sometimes in the web build where lines are incorrectly ordered. I've done what I can but it still shows up sometimes. Such is life in Compo.
- Due to questionable font choice, some of the letters look quite similar. The 'Y' on the first level is not a 'V'
Wasn't sure I'd be able to get anything together on this one. Doing LD while sick is a bad choice and no one should follow my example, but a game happened anyway.
If anyone tries to read my source, I'm very sorry. If any of the wonderful team behind Bevy see this code, doubly so. I may be getting more comfortable in Bevy, but wow does sick brain still manage to produce spaghetti.
| Source Code | https://github.com/jakemcleman/LD55 |
| Linux (via itch) | https://aevek.itch.io/summoners-word |
| Windows (via itch) | https://aevek.itch.io/summoners-word |
| HTML5 (via itch) | https://aevek.itch.io/summoners-word |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/summoners-word |
Ratings
| Overall | 326th | 2.818⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 339th | 2.477⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 204th | 3.205⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 243th | 3.295⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 299th | 2.705⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 275th | 2.15⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 278th | 2.875⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 14🗳️ | 14🗨️ |
Some indication of whether you are on the right track or not may be useful, though not sure how to do that without flipping it to being too easy.
I liked this quite a bit. It was well executed and I enjoyed figuring out the words.