This is the first jam for our team and it was a great experience! When we were brainstorming the ideas for the game there was a lot of talk about performing rituals.

Summoning is associated with demons, and demons—with freedom from societal norms, freedom of expression, freedom of choice (the good stuff, basically). Unfortunately that’s not something permissible in the eyes of society. And so we came up with an idea of not performing, but stopping a summoning ritual.

That’s why in The Summoning of IN-SI-LA we decided to tell a story of an Inquisitor tasked with purging heretics in a remote town. The heretics dared summon a demon who would grant them freedom and that is not something the Inquisition approves of.

Play it here!