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The Mighty Writer.

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Innovation74.45
Coolness355
Theme704.05
Overall713.87
Mood833.73
Audio1203.59
Graphics1773.76
Fun2823.38
Humor3203.17

Comments

hyoga-3d 2015-04-20 16:35

Nice game, difficult to understand without Reading the guidelines, but visuals are very good and fits the theme very well, congrats!

cicanci 2015-04-20 16:36

Interesting game, the music is really nice!

tipyx 2015-04-20 16:37

Wow, a very brilliant idea. It could be a great full game !
Nice job !

thephantom 2015-04-20 16:50

this concept is awesome .. this should be made into a full game :D

stefandjagers 2015-04-20 18:20

Graphics are gorgeous!
The idea is just amazing!
The background music is the best I've heard this Ludum Dare!
Overall, a very very very good game!
Good job! ;)

nicklink483 2015-04-20 18:22

"Lewis becomes a zombie. His corpse isn't very good at it."

Hahahahhaa

stephan_h 2015-04-20 18:27

Very cool idea. Presentation and execution is top notch.
It get's a bit tedious with 4 soldiers. And some of their names were blocked by the people in front of them.

catwheel 2015-04-20 18:42

This was awesome! My one qualm was writing "Daniels fires his weapon over and over". If you expanded on this to require other options than shooting I think this would be a really great game. Interpreters are difficult to write though.

agmcleod 2015-04-22 02:38

Nice game. I did find a bug that it was impossible to backsapce a mistake after typing a period. Also shooting from behind a cover, it was tricky to tell the soldier was till considered in cover.

tuism 2015-04-22 09:20

Really interesting idea that ultimately relies on TONS OF DEVELOPMENT TIME to be anywhere near viable. You'd need it to work almost naturally or else it just falls flat. Eliza and Siri wasn't made in 48 hours :P

Following the instructions word for word is really boring, and making stuff up doesn't work, making it a difficult sell for me.

Great concept.

"Woods fires" didn't even work. Frustrating!

bensonance 2015-04-22 12:17

Such a great idea! Really love this :D.

Think you need some game design tweaking though, the jams/blocks/misses happen quite frequently and it becomes frustrating. Also, it takes way too long to kill an enemy, I think their health or the bullet damage should be increased :).

Make this a full game, please! :D

daltostronic 2015-04-22 12:27

Haha, this is great :D Nice job, I love the music and the mood of the game! :)

pixel_reaper 2015-04-22 12:49

Very cool idea, a little limited but well executed and very creative.

turbocorp 2015-04-22 13:39

Wish the enemy soldiers also had names, so the writer could be a bit more neutral in his telling of the story.

Also, it was nice that I could write "[Soldier Name] fires her gun" and it would work, but then the game kept referring to all characters as male.

Oh, and you should be able to erase the sentences that didn't register a command.

jhell 2015-04-22 14:25

Interesting idea, but you get around it quickly. Excellent music, simple but beautiful art, perfect execution.

esayitch 2015-04-22 16:42

Fantastic entry... concept was awesome, so were the graphics. Sound was annoying a bit after a while, but still fine. I really like how responsive everything feels. Truly a story brought to life xD

francoisvn 2015-04-22 22:13

Nice game. I would like to see a version that's shorter (more damage might help) and gives you incentive to write some extra story, perhaps by showing everything at the end and having the option to share it.

pixel-heart 2015-04-23 08:26

awesome, awesome concept!! 5 stars for you!

mantlair 2015-04-23 08:37

This idea is too awesome. It is a bit simple right now but yes there was deadline for everybody. But really this idea is too good. Nice music. Cute animation.

nowandstudios 2015-04-23 08:39

Interesting game and quite funny. Would be very nice if you can includo more commands or make them more "open" but is reasonable for a jam.

abuzreq 2015-04-23 11:24

I really loved the game , the idea it self can be used with many types of games , just change the story and the environment and you get a new game
the visuals were nice , and choosing the grayscale colors were perfect.

couldn't stop thinking of regular grammars and FSA though , right :P ?

jackyjjc 2015-04-23 13:02

A very very cool game, I love how original the idea is. The graphics and audio set up a great atmosphere for the player. As you said, the option is indeed kind of limited and it gets repetitive after a while. However, given that you only had 48 hours, it was an awesome job! Looking forward to play the full game.

hmightypirate 2015-04-23 19:24

Awesome concept and graphics. I miss more text parsing options but i actually enjoyed the play.

aaronjbaptiste 2015-04-23 22:05

Love the idea, really good take on the theme. The typing sounds worked really well too.

simon-parzer 2015-04-25 09:23

This is a great concept! It was fun until the point I tried to get creative and the game ignored all my cool commands. I tried to invent better weapons, bring other soldiers into the game, have one of the soldiers turn off the music, etc. There are thousands of commands you could implement, but I guess not in 48 hours :)