Ludum Dare #55compo

Summing Circle

by rawb

Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.00

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.90

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.19

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.95

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.58

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.27

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.69

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.22

Summing Circle

"Any apprentice wizard who wants to learn the art of summoning circle must first learn the fundamentals... Summing Circles!"

Summing Circle is a daily math puzzle game about filling in the missing numbers and operations of an equation. Everyday try complete a new Beginner, Novice, and Expert puzzle as fast as possible.

How to Play

To win you must satisfy all the equations in the circle. Equations go in a clockwise direction. An equation is satisfied when the sum on the right side of an equals sign equals the first number on the left of the equals sign.

The sum in the circle in incomplete and the missing numbers are placed below the circle. To win, you must place the numbers back in the correct slots so that the equation is satisfied.

To place a number in the circle you must left click the slot in the circle and then left click the number that you want to place there from the bottom bar. Double click a guessed number in the circle to remove it. The equations in the center of the circle show are the equations that the selected number is a part of which must be satisfied.

Make sure to try out the tutorial puzzles and read the How To Play section in game.

Operations

The arithmetic operations allowed in the circle are addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and modulo (the remainder of a division)

Tools Used

Godot 4, Aseprite, Audacity

Tags: #daily, #math, #pixel art, #short

Genres: puzzle

Tools: Aseprite, Audacity, Godot

Comments28

Owtuvammo15 Apr 2024, 02:51

This is some wordle level. I want this. If I had one note, I would like to be able to use right-click to remove an entry.

PilotTK15 Apr 2024, 02:52

I already generally like math games and this one was right up my alley. It felt super polished and challenging in just the right way!

Rawbauthor15 Apr 2024, 02:58

@owtuvammo Glad you enjoyed. You can double click to remove an entry. I avoided right click in an effort to make in touch screen friendly in the future so it can be played on phone. But maybe having right click as an option would be no harm.

@pilottk Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!

cibums15 Apr 2024, 03:08

This is great. This is exactly what I want in a game jam entry. Simple, not too much happening, but a good concept, where I have to think a bit. The art is simple, but fits very well.

Simple and great.

Good work!

LDJam user 38621115 Apr 2024, 03:17

Yessss! This is my kind of game! You could probably sell this to the New York Times...

LDJam user 39134715 Apr 2024, 03:33

Played all the tutorial levels in about half an hour just now. I like it a lot! Only snag I felt is that clearing slots isn't as convenient as it could be, as Owtuvammo already mentioned.

Alexandru Barbanoua15 Apr 2024, 06:31

Interesting realization + for innovation

Phobos15 Apr 2024, 12:59

Funny little game, I had a bit of trouble on the hardest level but I managed to make it. Nice visuals

LDJam user 38419115 Apr 2024, 23:29

Aww yesss: maths! Nice take on the theme. The game is really polished, great job!

Two1San16 Apr 2024, 01:50

as a math nerd, i can only enjoy this ahah, love the ui too!

JulienLussiez16 Apr 2024, 11:14

This is an interesting concept. It works well and it's educational.

OgelGames16 Apr 2024, 12:57

Awesome game! Super simple idea, but really well executed and surprisingly difficult.

alanbrook16 Apr 2024, 15:13

Quite difficult. I wonder if adding more constraints would be interesting - like an equation that has to be valid across the circle, with a big "+" in the center of it? Particularly for the expert mode, it's so large that it felt like a lot of guessing and checking. Still, entertaining

Firebelley17 Apr 2024, 01:55

Amazing game! I felt like it was just the right balance of difficulty. The daily puzzles are super interesting too, I'm assuming those will be randomly generated based on the current date?

Definitely consider developing this one some more. So much fun even with the short experience available here.

Kiseki17 Apr 2024, 02:31

thats an amazing math puzzle! feels like sudoku. its hard to say if its related to summoning, but good work!

Foursay17 Apr 2024, 05:09

this entry is amazing! It definitely has the potential to make itself the new daily puzzle for newspaper website lol, trying to spent 60s to beat the daily puzzle and it feels great!

ValentinWB17 Apr 2024, 12:45

Oh that is a nice one ! I find it impressive you came up with such a simple yet clever idea for a puzzle game, well done !

LDJam user 38457817 Apr 2024, 18:30

Really cool concept, I love math game and it works very well

DeadInfinity17 Apr 2024, 20:40

Fun little puzzle, very unique! I think it'd need just a bit more depth to be playable every day in a newspaper, but as a one off it was great.

thomz1218 Apr 2024, 14:43

Very fun puzzles! Had me thinking quite a bit. Having daily puzzles is a nice touch!

squp18 Apr 2024, 22:15

this is a cute game, the pun name however is really the only thing that pushes this game towards the theme. I love the idea though, I'd love this as a -dle type game or something

LDJam user 33967322 Apr 2024, 05:43

This is puzzling; Helps my brain maintain thinking.

LDJam user 33967322 Apr 2024, 05:44

And, this game has a certain level of sophistication that other works don't have.

ellaris22 Apr 2024, 17:59

Pretty cool, the last expert tutorial and daily took some time to figure out, but it was nice.

Aarimous23 Apr 2024, 20:13

Nice work, I love math and had some fun with a few of those puzzles. Nice work executing on a core idea.

happyglitch28 Apr 2024, 13:07

Really cool idea. In my opinion the tutorial levels are a lot more fun then the daily puzzles. The daily puzzles seem like the only way to solve them is to try all the possibilities.

benskca30 Apr 2024, 21:03

This was super polished and very fun! I loved the wizard pop-up + particle effects when you finish a puzzle. Once the puzzles started including the modulo operator they got super interesting, I did all the practice ones and the three dailies :sunglasses:

Are you procedurally generating the daily puzzles or did you design them?

Rawbauthor1 May 2024, 12:14

@benskca I am glad you enjoyed the game. The daily puzzles are procedurally generated using a seed based off the date. The tutorial puzzles were authored by me to teach the player the rules of the game.

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