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Connected Words

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Audio273.96
Humor293.88
Innovation1763.70
Theme6503.13
Overall7093.06
Fun7392.84
Mood7452.77
Graphics10112.33
Coolness120449

Comments

rozaxe 2014-08-24 21:34

Quite fun !
Concept and music are great !
Game engine has some issues... (I had trouble to drag \ element)

PS : Thanks to you I needed to revise my regexp x]

elforama 2014-08-25 03:17

Lol, I'm loving the voice. Super hard though, I was just guessing...

paperblurt 2014-08-25 10:04

Aww word play "words" "worlds".

To "code-like" for me to get anything.
But fun idea.

njord 2014-08-25 14:15

Love the music, love the voice. Playing the game seems to require a certain knowledge I don't have though !

uvwar 2014-08-25 17:26

No idea whats happening, but the voice clips and music made up for it!

foolmoron 2014-08-25 17:26

Cool idea. The voice is hilarious. Collision detection with the mouse felt a bit inaccurate though.

jpverkamp 2014-08-25 17:28

That is just bizarre. I love the idea of playing with regular expressions like that. I think that it could probably start a little slower and then maybe speed up and it got a little hard to keep going once most of the words were upside down. Also, I'm amused by the wordplay on the theme, although I'll still have to rate lower for that. Audio is awesome.

jpmit 2014-08-25 17:29

Original and fun. Cool sound effects and music. Good job all round.

I need to learn regex.

capitals 2014-08-25 17:39

I like the play on words more than I liked the game. I did like the play on words quite a lot! The big drawback is that the idea has quite a niche market.

awesomeusername 2014-08-25 18:01

I found this educational, which is awesome.

However, I had a lot of problems trying to click on the right word (it tended to give me a nearby word even though I clicked on the word itself), and I think some of the strings satisfy multiple expressions (though I don't know Regex very well so I could be wrong).

lightsoda 2014-08-25 21:18

Had to brush up on my regexp, my best was 1024.

When the words start piling up the mouse picking gets a bit wonky.

billtowin 2014-08-26 00:32

Great music and voice work. Original interpretation of the theme. Good stuff.

tommislav 2014-08-26 10:29

Yay, edutainment! One thing is clear: I suck at regex. Another thing that's clear is that when I start reading up on it more proper I will definetly come back to this game to exercise! I'm also a big fan of using your own recorded samplings =D

jupiter_hadley 2014-08-27 20:52

Interesting game. I included it in part 10 of my Ludum Dare 30 compilation video series :) http://youtu.be/KmqpyEAAVGM

twoscoopgames 2014-08-28 04:07

Interesting but definitely not playable for a non-programmer.

ponk 2014-08-28 17:20

That's a cool game to learn regular expressions!
Great and hilarious audio

nilstastic 2014-08-28 20:24

Pros: Very innovative!
Cons: A bit to easy, word and digit matching was always a success.

macocco 2014-08-28 20:35

Interesting take on the theme (a typo?). Don't understand why I always have a negative score in the end though. Audio was funny!

ambi 2014-08-29 17:39

I think this is a really good concept. The music and the audio is good. I hope you make a post-compo entry that has more variation in the regexes. This could be a fun tool to practice my stagnating regex skills.

badlydrawnrod 2014-08-30 08:48

I like how the premise of this game is a play on worl?ds. I thought this game w.s \w+ \w+ and rather \w+ed it. \w+ job!

mrexcessive 2014-08-31 18:59

Hi there. Great idea. Got 310 first try... more next, but clicked away. Is frustrating that once you start dragging a link, if the source word gets knocked by incoming words, then the link breaks. Might also be nice if they flipped to shop word right way up - because rotating words in your head is not really part of Regex understanding - though it feels like that sometimes! Good and unusual job!

yodamaster 2014-09-02 11:26

Looks interesting. Mouse position somehow not correctly calculated? I need to learn a programming-language to play the game? Maybe you can also include different themes, could be used as nice learning game for children, or vocabulary etc.