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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Artwork | #227 | 4.432 | 4.432 |
| Audio | #600 | 3.705 | 3.705 |
| Enjoyment | #749 | 3.818 | 3.818 |
| Creativity | #1724 | 3.795 | 3.795 |
| Narrative | #4883 | 2.148 | 2.148 |
Ranked from 88 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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To cast a spell, the player must draw a magical trail that loops back and intersects with itself.
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The art and audio are amazing! Had a hard time making shapes though, often they didn’t get recognized… But great game nonetheless (I love the flipping of the character)
Cool, I love the Pokémon Ranger-style gameplay. Nice work.
Stylish, excellent artwork paired with simple and addictive gameplay.
The premise is cool and the art is well done, there's lots of potential with the spell shapes (I definitely expected drawing a pentagram to do something funky). Reminds me of that Google cat witch game.
This was really fun! Absolutely beautiful art. The pentagon/hexagon dynamic was a really cool twist. I vibed out for a few and next thing I knew I had like 4000 points haha. Great job!
Thank you for playing! I really love your game picture perfect in the last jam. I'll try your new game when I am free (heart)
Liked the art style. Good game.
Super fun game, absolutely love the style, art and colors!! I love the fun and whimsical vibes!!
Really cute artstyle and satisfying gameplay, i had a bit of a problem with drawing the hexagon spells unfortunately, but still had ton of fun.
I love the idea of drawing different shapes to cast different spells, it provides some inherent risk / reward that I didn't expect. Drawing hexagons and pentagons is a lot harder to draw with a enemies and projectiles on the screen than it is to draw circles. Art is awesome as well!
the art is simply wonderful
Nice game
The art style is very distinctive, and the gameplay ideas are quite creative! But it was a bit tricky to tell pentagons and hexagons apart, especially with the clockwise/counterclockwise controls. Maybe starting with simpler shapes could help with onboarding, and players could unlock the more complex ones and new powers by picking up magic books!"
Very cool art style! Music was also very chill and fitting! Smart idea of having to draw shapes around enemies. Though found it a bit challenging trying to draw shapes while avoid enemies. Overall, I greatly enjoyed this game!
super fun i definitely struggled remembering what my shaped even were for a while but lots of fun!
Super cool, love the art and music! Drawing different shapes to cast spells is a clever idea, and the technical execution of it is impressive--I never felt like my shape should've been accepted but wasn't. I also really like how the enemies have multiple eyes and lose one when they take damage, great design!
Very cool system! Got confused the first time with the shapes but got the hand of it!
Lovely visuals! Good job!
An awesome spell system! I love creative spell systems in games, and i would love to see this concept expanded upon with maybe more spell types. The art is pretty, and the sound effects are nice. Though the background song loops a bit too abruptly. Overall, very fun game, i have a high score of about 11k, really hoping this project is continued post-jam!
Super cute and a ton of fun, though I found it a little bit too easy to spam spells by jiggling the mouse cursor, I'm honestly surprised that I haven't seen more similar takes on the theme.
Thanks for playing! Jiggling the mouse to spam spells wasn't what we intended. However, we didn't have enough time for proper playtesting during the jam, so that's what we ended up with! 😂
The pentagon spells naturally correct for it by having areas based on how they were cast, so it's not a huge deal there, it's the hexes that the size of the area used do draw doesn't affect them
That makes sense. Our original purpose was to make it easy to remember: pentagons are for continuous effects, and hexagons are for one-time effects. We didn't expect the jiggling. I think it can be fixed by checking the area of the loop (though we can't fix it now since gmtk jam doesn't allow modifying games during rating stage). Thanks for your feedback!
you're welcome <3
I think it's the best execution of the "make a loop around enemies" type of games within this jam. Controls are simple, clever spells ideas, visuals are very appealing, best girl on the preview. Nice!
Very interesting concept. I like how the character blinks when you left click tho XD. Even though it is simple but well executed. Great job!