runedrake 2014-12-09 02:13
Interesting game, sadly I am not the fastest typist so the deadline always got to me before I could write much. I like the graphics a lot!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD31 → Press Simulator 1964
By 2hitadam
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Humor | 120 | 3.52 | ||
| Graphics | 144 | 4.06 | ||
| Mood | 208 | 3.48 | ||
| Innovation | 212 | 3.56 | ||
| Overall | 435 | 3.28 | ||
| Fun | 484 | 3.06 | ||
| Theme | 572 | 3.48 | ||
| Coolness | 1659 | 41 |
Interesting game, sadly I am not the fastest typist so the deadline always got to me before I could write much. I like the graphics a lot!
Nice! At first I was disappointed that the game didn't actually enforce the fact that you didn't have to write something real - oh geez, I'm typing this review WAY faster than I normally do -, so I just mashed on the keyboard. But then I decided to play along and not cheat, and wow, you've actually got something pretty good here!
It's really a game you play against yourself, not the computer. And it's hilarious the kind of stuff I typed when I didn't have time to think about it. Well done!
Love the aesthetic!
I don't get how it calculates a loss or a win though?
I would love to see what other people wrote :D
Wel.. weeeeelll.. i wish you 1-100 place cause this game is really interesting :) also check my project if you have some time x)
Interesting game, kudos!
Very nice game. I've tried to write in english, what is not my native language and lose all the time... It didn't come to my mind that I could write in german... Very nice looking and fun game!
Oh my god, you have to do the "store in a database" thing. There was a while when I was having a wonderful time hammering on the keyboard, saying nothing, and then I discovered that the "return" key actually worked and started doing some pithy one-liners. I wanted to try to do some poetry or haiku or something, just to make it worth it (I remember once when I skipped the prompt and wrote something like:
"What was the prompt?
I missed it.
I think it might have been about ducks.
But I like ducks...
I should write a poem.")
Love the concept, love the game, great mood, great fun. Thank you so much for sharing!
#giggle
Interesting game. It would be great if you include a syntax (something like https://languagetool.org/ )
really nice concept! i really wish that there would be an actual win/lose scenario to encourage people writing relevant stuff. would love to see the resulting content in that case! :)
interesting concept! nice entry!
I think you can do a lot more with this nice concept! For me it was hard to motivate writing anything that made sense, but if there is maybe a rating system for how many times you input some keywords (like "duck") or if you have some really basic grammar check so that you can't write just anything. Maybe combine it with these action type games, because this is a really funny idea!
a bit buggy, but of course good idea and graphics)
The idea is fascinating, but you need to add some helpers that says to you what the fuck are the people writing, because you will receive a "Well done" without counting what you wrote. The music and the graphics are really, really cool, and the idea is fantastic. Just try to solve that issue and you will have a really good casual game ;)
Great background picture and nice idea. It could be better though if the game restricted you on what you're typing, now random button mashing works — and it's not really like writing an article. You could turn it into some sort of keyboard education program in which you must type in the appearing words or symbols
There's a kernel of a GREAT game idea here. Not allowing backspace makes for some hilarious improv. I went through quite a few headlines because of that, alone. If you can tweak the gameplay a bit, this could be amazing. Just need to slow down the deadline a bit (early on, at least) and create an algorithm to score based on what was written. Make it have to be at least a paragraph... not be jibberish... maybe enforce referencing the topic in some way.
I'm tempted to work on a version of this, now. :D Neat idea!
Thanks for playing the game and leaving feedback everyone! A post-jam version is in the works, where articles will be stored in a fake newspaper website, names and headlines are taken, and articles are scored based on relevance to the prompt. The deadline will start a lot slower too (I forget not everyone can type like a programmer haha).
Follow me (@2hitadam) on twitter if you wanna know when the post-jam ver drops :)
It is very fun just as a silly thing as it currently stands with not being strict on scoring - you can write any old thing. I followed the prompts. Loosely. I was the most bad-mouthed rambling journalist in the land. I agree the mood is really nice! I'd love to see it spruced up.
I think the concept is great, but as with others a little disappointed it doesn't enforce you write something real. Of course, that is a bunch of work, but even some keyword scanning would have been interesting to make sure I wasn't just going "dkfjdlkjglsjgldgkljdfg".
Might be worth revisiting this one and attempting to try some language analysis to whip it up into a more interesting game.
It's still much more a concept than a game, but the graphic is lovely, and the idea is worth to be explored. You could make an online judgment system, in which other people has to judge your articles.