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(S)Word Forge

By persijn

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall6282.8028
Fun6592.4428
Innovation4943.0528
Theme5153.1928
Graphics1913.6128
Humor4482.3225
Mood5242.6525

Comments

schuster 2018-04-23 12:03

Nice typing game, I really like that the modifiers add a bit of variety to the weapon names in addition to making the weapon take longer to 'craft'

zarkonnen 2018-04-23 12:07

I really like the idea of mapping harder to spell equipment to more powerful equipment. There's a fun core of an idea here.

smiley-4 2018-04-23 12:09

Interesting little game. Really like the background art

robowarrior1982 2018-04-23 13:43

Nice pixel art !

marchmain 2018-04-23 14:04

The way the orders stack up felt like Tetris :) -- very challenging, and I'm a fast typist!

I have seen a few typing/wordsearch + crafting games on here this weekend (great minds... :smile:). I think this could make a really cool magic/enchantment system.

I did notice in the web version that I couldn't type a hyphen, so when I got to a hyphenated word I had to stop.

persijn 2018-04-23 17:31

@Marchmain :scream: I never got so far that i got to a hyphen. I'll check my text file. Found it "fine-tuned" :scream_cat: thats +6. I'll make a small change to fix this :smile_cat:

ruoyu 2018-04-23 18:19

1. Cool art style! 2. The game mechanism can be further polished. Now I get bored too quickly :-p

velocity7 2018-04-24 00:26

Art style is cool. It gets harder to type

ehtd 2018-04-24 03:38

Nice to see another jammer making a typing game!

theslate 2018-04-24 14:51

Nice! An ending of some sort would have been good.

captainpilot 2018-04-24 23:02

Like the art style and concept, but not sure which two genres are being combined here

persijn 2018-04-25 13:05

@CaptainPilot I was not so sure myself, i think its a shop, crafting, management and typing. I don't know if they qualify as genres. :fox:

hatchet 2018-04-25 21:34

Very cool pixel art! :) I wish there was more variety in the things you type/do, and perhaps some goal you're working towards, even if it's just hinted.

sndr 2018-04-25 22:36

That was fun! Got to gold 80 and words stopped appearing. Not sure if that means I lost because the list on the right was full? :P Cool stuff for sure!

persijn 2018-04-25 23:19

@sndr Could be you complete the game then XD I did not have time to sett an end to the game. In the current build it should never end so i think that's a bug :cry:

sndr 2018-04-25 23:45

@persjin Oooh, I beat it then. Yay! :) Don't worry about it though. My winning/end screen is also a bit dodgy. xD I had to quickly work on it on the last 50 minutes or so before the end of the compo.

shellfish-games 2018-04-27 11:35

Original concept (good title as well) and nice pixel art. I'd say yes, it qualifies as a combination of incompatible genres.

I had some problems with the game repeatedly not noticing characters, so with every second word or so I ran into typo problems, which was a bit frustrating as I had to force myself to type slowly to avoid this. As nobody else seems to be mentioning this it might be related to I don't know what, my system or browser maybe (Windows 7, Firefox 59 currently).

persijn 2018-04-28 18:01

Thanks for the feedback @Shellfish-games. I noticed that bug myself, during testing. I think i know why that bug happens, but I'll wait until after the results before i work any more on the game.

vfqd 2018-04-30 12:33

Cool concept - I also noticed the missing characters (if it helps I'm running chrome on OSX).

persijn 2018-05-01 10:42

@vfqd missing characters? You found a bug? Tell me more.

vfqd 2018-05-02 15:28

@Persijn I couldn't figure out exactly when it happened, but I think some of my keypresses were not being detected

deborah-soude 2018-05-08 06:31

Nice Pixel Art ! Good idea !