This is a really neat idea but it seems like it might be a little much for a week long game jam. If you work on it more after the jam, it would be nice to be able to move the phase orbs after placing them. It would also be nice if you added controls to clear the system of any items, so you can start over without erasing everything, and something to align all the rotas because if you run the system and then make new rotas they can be out of alignment with the others. I do hope you work on this game more, it was fun.
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TaftPunk,
Yes I definitely overshot the scope of this one (it seems to be a theme for me).
All of these suggestions are right on! I'd have to mess around with the orbs a little bit to make it work, but it's definitely doable. And I probably should have just included a "Clear All" button from the get go. The idea of being able to align rotas is intriguing-- I thought about having some kind of "snap" system, but ended up scrapping it as it seemed not free-form enough. After your suggestion I could see how it might be useful, though.
Thanks for the follow and the constructive feedback!