Ludum Dare #55compo

The Wrong Book

by adam-gould

Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.01

Fun★★★★★★★★★★4.00

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.35

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.30

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.34

Audio★★★★★★★★★★4.54

Humor★★★★★★★★★★4.09

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.89

What happens when an evil wizard gets their hands on the wrong book? They have to go back to square one! Fret not, however, for there are thousands out there ready to become your cultists!

Change Log

17th of April - Fixed a bug with the WebGL version that caused the UI text at the top of the screen (resource counts and volume controls) to stop rendering starting from the first time you produce a resource.

Info

Hi! I hope you enjoy The Wrong Book - I had a lot of fun putting it together. You can press F at any time to switch Fullscreen on and off, but aside from that the game is designed entirely to be played with a mouse.

Screenshots here have very limited information because I want to leave the discovery up to you!

If you want to get in touch with me, I'm on Mastodon at kind.social/@advurt

Tools: Unity

Comments34

LDJam user 1245314 Apr 2024, 23:55

10/10 voice acting

manabreak15 Apr 2024, 08:42

Heeeeey, I beat the game - *DUN DUN DUN DUN* Heeeeey, I beat the game! Absolutely amazing game, took most of my lunch break with this. I love you included voice acting, and the end music was the chef's kiss. :)

adam-gouldauthor15 Apr 2024, 08:57

@manabreak My siblings and my wife have been singing it at me near-constantly since I uploaded it. No regrets.

Impalpable15 Apr 2024, 14:48

10/10 voice acting seconded!!!! this was absolutely fantastic!

PieRo_PBeS_studio15 Apr 2024, 20:40

zut I caused the apocalypse! Very nice idle game... like the others people I find that the music and sounds are really good... everything is rather funny. On the other hand when I played in full screen, the texts were tiny and it was difficult to understand the game. So i let the game in a tiny window and zoomed my screen manually and it was more comfortable. Thanks also to the cultists who don't need to be clicked on to provide materials.

adam-gouldauthor15 Apr 2024, 21:00

@piero-pbes-studio I did have the UI scale up to avoid that problem, but at the last minute I realised that it breaks the tooltip and context menu popups so I had to disable it :(

konstantinreed16 Apr 2024, 14:51

I enjoyed spending some time figuring out the game. Thanks for the work!

Bry16 Apr 2024, 15:00

Fun experience. Good amount of content for a compo submission.

Unbreakable16 Apr 2024, 15:48

Impressive efforts sir! Surprisingly feature complete. Good job! Took me 18 minutes to complete it!

LDJam user 38700216 Apr 2024, 16:01

Idle game with strong RTS vibes (especially the unit voice lines). The VO overall was such a devious treat. Thank you!

Storeyware16 Apr 2024, 16:05

that was awesome haha. Favorite game of the jam thus far. The only negative I have is that it took a lil bit of idle gaming before I figured out the pie mechanic. (thank you for allowing the idle repeating mechanics!)

*hums 'heeey you beat the game...'*

wujood16 Apr 2024, 16:20

Great entry! I had a lot of fun building my empire of demons :smile: i was thinking about commenting something like "automation would be nice" and the i saw the research options :smile: very satisfying!

adam-gouldauthor16 Apr 2024, 16:28

@storeyware _they beat the game_

atomicptr16 Apr 2024, 16:33

Interesting, the voice acting is fantastic lol

muhyrla16 Apr 2024, 16:40

finished it in 15m, like it, backing me into some sort of clickers i think?

i also found a bug, when you can put any structure on where imp stands

JoeShanahan16 Apr 2024, 16:41

Incredible entry, it feels super complete, the voice adds so much and is also very funny. It's often risky for a dev to do their own VO but you pulled it off perfectly. And the ending was brilliant too. I love a good incremental game. This will definitely score near the top for humour, and I think pretty high overall too - loved this one!

rolferm16 Apr 2024, 16:50

That was pretty fun :D

LDJam user 37103016 Apr 2024, 17:06

Very very sweet entry, congrats :) . I don't usually play these types of games, but this one was very hooky! Bravo!

Played just a bit, probably even with the bug on.. I will try the downloadable in some time, thanks!

Idontgetit116 Apr 2024, 17:36

Very fun game and incredible voice acting. The upgrades go surprisingly deep and the game itself is extremly satisfying. Overall well done.

Sodaro16 Apr 2024, 20:15

Extremely well done! The voice acting is hilarious and the gameplay has enough changes to not too repetitive for the duration it lasts :smile: I would have loved some keyboard shortcuts or the selection not being cleared for every click though!

JoeShanahan16 Apr 2024, 20:46

I made a video compilation and this game is part of it! Hope it's useful for you!

JoeShanahan16 Apr 2024, 21:21

...also had to go back and beat my previous time

Mephistase17 Apr 2024, 08:12

This game is a perfect experience.
It is funny, it is well made, the audio is of rare quality, and there is a well-conveyed plot!
Congratulations!

heytherewill17 Apr 2024, 08:18

At first I thought "Is this a Tim Minchin reference?" when I saw the name of the game. After beating it, I'm 90% sure it is, but I'd still love it if you could confirm.

I really hope you win Compo, this is the most fun I've had so far in this LD :D

adam-gouldauthor17 Apr 2024, 08:52

@heytherewill not consciously - I am however a big Minchin fan (narrowly missed out on an opportunity to see him live 12 years ago which I'm still kicking myself over) so maybe some of his influence crept in a bit!

And thank you for the kind words!

Jack1234217 Apr 2024, 09:18

Cool game! I enjoyed the gameplay and the RTS vibes from the voice acting. Nice graphics, audio and song :)
The only slight inconvenience is that when the window with the selection of an action is open and it is not active, because there are not enough resources for it, I expected that when the resources appeared, it would become active, but I had to open the selection window again. Nevertheless, the impression of the game is very positive.

Iluvatar17 Apr 2024, 09:49

Audio definitely 5/5!
The gameplay is rather simple, but it is fun and that's the best combination you can have on Ludum Dare jam. I haven't experienced any problems, it was fun, and I was able to play on my own pace, I appreciate that there were no timers, or "hurry!!!" mechanics. I was able to read everything carefully, and enjoy the game.

Brother, how are you not a professional voice actor?!

Luka42017 Apr 2024, 11:25

Amazing voice acting! Loved your game

monkseal18 Apr 2024, 02:30

This game make you realized how good it feels to have passive income and have daemon works for you, 10/10 it's too fun, i need more

ThatSommeS18 Apr 2024, 13:26

This was fun!!
Hated all the clicking in the start, but the reliefe I got from automation was perfect!

I enjoy this type of game and the theme was amazing!

I tryly expected the Last summoning to be another burger, all that work, and you get a burger.

adam-gouldauthor18 Apr 2024, 16:40

@thatsommes honestly, I considered it. If I ran out of time, it was going to be a second burger :laughing:

OadT20 Apr 2024, 16:09

This was well constructed and fun! At fist I was a bit disappointed that you have to always repeat the commands, but that (partially) got solved later by researching automation :smile: I only had some difficulties finding the mechanic to get cakes, so I was stuck for a while to get the last summoning circle.

Remembered to have played a game of you some jams ago, so wasn't surprised about the superb voice acting, the ending song got me by surprise though :smile: Surely that was the music Lovecraft had in mind when the old ones awake

LDJam user 27814621 Apr 2024, 14:39

That was actually really fun! And the song at the end was the icing on the cake.

kanity22 Apr 2024, 17:34

Voice over sounds professional, it is really really good! Mechanics are well thought-out, progression seems to be smooth, not to slow or too fast, and I like pixel-y style. I'd say sprites of my followers and shrines I liked especially, more than my summons. Looking with options of Devourer, wow that got darker xD
Very good theme representation imo!

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