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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness284
Fun1213.71
Overall2133.57
Mood2593.30
Graphics2613.59
Audio2953.18
Theme3303.61
Humor4122.98
Innovation4933.18

Comments

buttercup 2015-04-19 22:38

Victory!
Nice one man! great for practicing my z's :)

mcmahoniel 2015-04-20 03:17

Wow! Was almost tired enough to give up when I finished the 10th wave. Very clever concept, it looks fantastic. One minor problem I had was the text from the townsfolk covers up the words to by typed if they get too close, but I still survived! :)

occamsrazor 2015-04-20 03:17

Very cool entry, had fun with this one! Graphics were great, and the music fit perfectly.

The only problem I had is when you hesitate even a bit, it sends your command, which might make you lose progress. Had it submit "Lightn" a couple times, then I had to start over :P

leo_p_mahon 2015-04-20 03:17

Pretty fun game, im a bit of a slow typist though haha. Sometimes the enemies word gets lost behind the speech bubble though.

sharpcoder 2015-04-20 03:17

Woot! I got victory! Lightning kept tripping me up though, oy. Neat idea and well executed. I wish it were infinite though :)

allcapson 2015-04-20 03:17

I found this very fun. One problem I had was with the WebGL player, by default the attack messages will cover up the enemies, but I was able to fix it by going fullscreen. A bit more variety couldn't hurt, but then again I only got to wave 6.

davidcmcdonald 2015-04-20 03:18

i actually really enjoyed this game, well done! the UI wouldnt display correctly when i typed things though....

indigo 2015-04-20 03:19

Very fun! Great graphics and a nice tune too. Unfortunately, it's a little too easy: because the amount of words in the game is so low, it's quite easy to beat by just spamming the same word over and over again, and repeating that for every type of monster on the screen. It's much easier to type "Burn Burn Burn" than to type "Burn Ember Candle" -- too bad!

ultravisitor 2015-04-20 03:20

I am a terrible typer! I would be of no use in this scenario. That flash and screen shake effect is pretty neat.

deathray 2015-04-20 03:24

I got angry and my dumb, slow fingers. "Lightning" is so hard to type under pressure! Nice game.

havacore 2015-04-20 03:26

The text from the town covers the keywords sometimes, other than that though, I loved it. I always liked typing games, though you should've jumbled the words more.

Rather than freeze all the time, go for blizzard, tempest, get your fingers off of the 'f' key.

havacore 2015-04-20 03:26

The text from the town covers the keywords sometimes, other than that though, I loved it. I always liked typing games, though you should've jumbled the words more.

micahcowan 2015-04-20 04:24

Yay! I got victory with no terrors on my very first playthrough!

Then I played it again to see the lovely little pleas for help from the townspeople. ;)

I have a feeling this game would be extremely challenging for a lot of people I know, who can't touch-type. Hunt-and-peck won't exactly work here! I'll bet you could program macros to type the words in for you, though - then you could just hit one key to type them in. ;)

Would make a nice diversion as part of a larger typing tutor / typing practice app.

Seems pretty solid, and it's a fun/cute game. Good use of the theme, too. Nice job!

fanttum 2015-04-20 04:28

Haha, great idea. I almost did something similar, but decided against it, and I'm glad I did because this is much better than anything I could have done. Great mood and humor too! Why no combos for the same word of multiple foes? Loved the game, nice job.

sanojian 2015-04-20 06:20

I never realized "lightning" was so hard to type before. Great entry. Quite fun.

dragonxvi 2015-04-20 12:39

Nifty little typing game, made it to wave 10 with no hits :D Could do with a bit more words in the dictionary, felt odd typing 'burn' so many times, and the speech bubble covers up the names too :p Side from that, pretty cool!

goutye 2015-04-20 18:33

Totally unconventional! Well made! My only one problem was writing the name of a spell when the name of the mob is hidden by the "Oh god why?" message box. ! :o) But it's my fault >.<

homletmoo 2015-04-20 19:23

Great game! I like the graphics style a lot, it has a nice colour palette.

One thing that I did find frustrating about the typing, though, is how the textbox is completely cleared when you make a mistake.

sience 2015-04-20 20:57

Cool Typing Game. Very innovative Idea to combine this with strategy genre.

gruhn 2015-04-21 00:16

Great experience!
I really liked the visual feedback, graphics and mechanic.

kamala 2015-04-21 01:16

Nice work!

marcus_siactro 2015-04-21 09:16

Awesome! Really great work, love it! :D

tommyno222 2015-04-21 10:56

Great connection with the theme, simple mechanics and very fun to play! I liked different types of enemies as well.

azure_kyte 2015-04-21 11:40

Awesome little game you've made there. It's nice to see I'm not the only one considering words as unconventional weapons! Our implementations are very different, but I think yours was much better than my own. Good job! :D

agirreb 2015-04-21 16:31

Excellent. Really fun.

themeorch 2015-04-21 16:54

Great work! This was really fun and charming. I'd love to see this a larger post-compo version with multiple difficulty levels, since the game takes a while to ramp up.

frondeus 2015-04-21 18:48

Very nice game!

mekuri 2015-04-21 19:19

Yay! I beat the game on first try with no monsters coming through- But I was kinda glad the game ended there because I was getting fatigued :P - I felt challenged and I had great fun. I restarted the game afterwards just to experience loosing, I like the "comments" from the people :P
The graphics were really nice, all in all I really liked this game a lot :) Good job!

2015-04-21 23:24

hehehe very nice. Thumbs up!

ehtd 2015-04-22 00:37

I like typing games, nice entry

petitpois 2015-04-24 06:57

Absolutely love it, great concept. Educational and fun. Love the graphics.

paperblurt 2015-04-24 09:12

Creative Idea.
It's like Type of the Dead or what's it called. For Dreamcast!

wilsk 2015-04-26 16:47

Nice! Fun to play and looks polished.

xenfare 2015-04-27 02:49

This was nice, I don't usually like typing games due to dyslexia, but this was ok. I died pretty fast though. :P

leaghorn 2015-04-28 19:25

Very cool. The comments that appears covers up words sometimes though.

p4nurge 2015-04-30 16:54

Excellent idea and the whole game has a really neat mood. I was dreadful at it though... :)

mrshoestore 2015-05-05 01:59

Makes me want to play Typing of the Dead again. Fun game, and nice style too. Would have like to see more variety with the words, but I understand you were trying to create a theme with the different enemy types.