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Wordslide

By travischen

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall2233.8290
Fun2633.6791
Innovation1443.9191
Theme1084.2491
Graphics1174.3192
Audio4973.1290
Mood2783.6588

Comments

finntastico 2018-04-24 01:21

Nice idea :) But I especially love the art style!

jrpl 2018-04-24 04:30

Cool idea, reminded me of the tony hawk pro skater series where you had to collect "S K A T E" or "C O M B O". Also I really like the art style, pretty unique. Had fun playing this game, pretty awesome.

amatwiedle 2018-04-24 04:55

Great idea!

wramp 2018-04-24 05:15

Nice game love this artstyle, but little bit buggy, ive got stuck somewhere and couldnt get from it. It woul de handy to have restart button.

travischen 2018-04-24 05:37

@wramp Thanks for playing and for your comment! I'm looking into the stuck bug. Seems to be related to the web build. Thanks again!

draughtvader 2018-04-24 06:41

Gnarly dude! Loved the love and feel. Fresh take on the theme!

loosegoose 2018-04-24 06:41

The art style and mechanics are both wonderful in this! It would be nice to have some randomized trick animations for the jumps as the motion gets a little monotonous 3/4 of the way through, but aside from that I never would have guessed this was a jam game

riddhee-dutta 2018-04-24 06:41

A nice and unique concept. Great Job. The graphics is something unique and fresh, tbh I would be highly pleased if you can make a tutorial on making the shaders like that. Good Luck. Fell Free to review our game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/boomball

uynad11037 2018-04-24 06:53

The graphics is impressive while it comes with an interesting gameplay. Bravo!

dlowe 2018-04-24 06:57

What a blast to play! The controls were definitely a bit wonky at times, but worth it. I really hope you polish and fine-tune this, it's a fantastic idea :)

Thanks for the game!

heyycap 2018-04-24 07:00

Love the graphics! Music is annoying. When I exit the cursor I can't bring it back in.

tutti-ankka 2018-04-24 07:06

Nice idea! I don't know if its just me, but i was really bad at this game. Highest scoring word i got was "mass". Really polished entry anyway!

petro-shoferystov 2018-04-24 07:31

Great idea an realisation. It looks very harmonic and chill :) By the way you should add the word LUDUM into the game vocabulary, it's not recognized :)2018-04-24 (4).png

giovannibarrottu 2018-04-24 07:51

Really interesting concept, and it works really well! besides a couple times that I got stuck in a wall, it works really smoothly. The art style is also really cool! though the music is a bit repetitive.

Nice game overall! really like it.

pixelstuff 2018-04-24 11:44

Nice game, the concept is interesting and the whole world design and feedbacks with the controls are great. The only troublesome point is that I had to change my keyboard to qwerty to be able to play correctly, since jumping (spacebar) and arrow keys are a bit hard to reach while playing with a mouse, but once in qwerty I managed to play it correctly. An alternative key to space bar would make the game perfect for foreigners keyboards ;) !

louis-denizet 2018-04-24 17:35

This game answers the theme so well, really nicely done! (even if music got a bit repetitive pretty fast)

selfsame 2018-04-24 22:34

Fantastic! I really love skating games and thought it was a blast trying to come up with even simple words in this park. Art direction is top notch. Really memorable entry here!

pcoridan 2018-04-25 03:48

The graphics on this are awesome! Definitely the style I like. This mashed up well!

ragtagradical 2018-04-25 03:53

Nice look to this. I think I suck at the skating aspect, but I spelled "Quilt" and "Relating" so at least I know how to spell those two words.

diego-escalante 2018-04-25 03:55

Looks really pretty and well polished!

jolett 2018-04-25 03:58

I really like the feel of this game. It feels like you mashed up scrabble, any skating game, and great graphics to make this. I do have to say I didn't really like the time limit for finding words because I noticed some letters showed up more frequently than others. Other than that, it was utterly perfect.

isopoly 2018-04-25 04:07

Great work! I really like the visual style and the mechanics :)

samuelsousa 2018-04-25 08:06

Love the art style :v:

elendow 2018-04-25 08:33

Well, this one was a surprise. Really nice idea, art and execution overall. I only felt that the mouse wasn't really the best input for the camera, maybe I'm too biased for the Tony Hawk games. With a controller this game will shine for sure.

tokkiseul 2018-04-25 08:42

Amazing graphics and fun concept!! There were couple points where I got stuck but the animation is so smooth and well polished. Great job! šŸ˜

cristhor98 2018-04-25 10:10

I did not expect this game to be liked, but the concept is very interesting and it's super fun to play it. 4 stars ^^

la-mecanique-du-plastique 2018-04-25 16:40

Really good job ! Loved your concept and the graphics are beautiful ! I sucked though, all I could spell was GAG and MAIL... :P

croewens 2018-04-26 08:50

Damn, this caught my attention really fast! My submission was also (partly) within the typing genre and I loved your approach!

What I loved * Nice idea, art, aesthetic and execution overall. Felt really polished * Reminded me of tony hawk pro skater series back in the good old days

My Thoughts * Took me a few minutes to realise what I had to do & what I was doing but after that it went smooth as butter! * Camera movement felt weird at first * No azerty mode :confused: * Got stuck in the wall once

Overal great game! I’d love for you to review my submission as well. https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/keyboard-warrior

saintheiser 2018-04-26 17:20

Very hard to play... Movement too slow for skating at all. But mixes of genres unique and I hd a lot of fun "walking" around skatepark. If there weren't physic glitches and wallstucks... ehh unity... God job, anyway!

jonathan-whiting 2018-04-26 23:07

Really nice look!

yetman 2018-04-27 13:15

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I love this game. It is not as fast paced as I was expecting but it was still a lot of fun. The art style is so great and visually pleasing and I love you color choices. The music is not my taste but it was nice too. I also love how you mixed the 2 genres. Awesome job.

niterich 2018-04-28 22:00

I like the concept and, for the most part, the execution. I felt the graphics shader was a nice touch, the music fitting but not really my cup of tea. But I think you dropped the ball on the controls, though I too may be biased towards Tony Hawk. It all felt a bit slow, and using A and D to strafe instead of turn just feels wrong in a skating game. I was also kind of hoping for some big air jumps to reach all the high-scoring letters.

cileth 2018-04-29 06:12

Concept was pretty cool. Didn't feel super exciting. The music got pretty repetitive. Overall, pretty good submission.

travischen 2018-04-29 17:24

@niterich Thanks for the feedback! I hope to work on this concept more post Ludum. First step would be to get a more THPS like skateboarding mechanic. This was surprisingly really hard to nail in the night I was working on it. Will work on it though :D

travischen 2018-04-29 17:25

Also, obviously need to add some grind support!

niterich 2018-04-29 17:40

@travischen For the grind rails, you could make the letters form common prefixes or suffixes so it's more convenient to slide down the whole rail instead of picking out a few letters

huitre 2018-04-29 17:44

Nice game, very fresh visuals + it's pretty cool to do some tricks when you jump even if it's only cosmetic! On Windows (zip version) I didn't have the nice grain shader you have on your screenshots though!

balint 2018-04-29 18:43

Incredible visual style, and the music was matching in its oddness. Novel concept and very solid gameplay for a jam game overall, good job!

travischen 2018-04-29 22:22

@niterich awesome idea! Like -ing would be perfect.

huminaboz 2018-04-30 04:58

Dig that art style big time.

bunnybreaker 2018-04-30 07:34

This was a really cool game. A couple of words I tried weren't recognised (assassinate and understood). The graphical style was really striking and this is a great take on an educational game. If you have time, check out my entry as it's also a word game, though a completely different type.

gentoogames 2018-04-30 22:35

The music got a bit repetitive after a while, but holy crap these visuals are amazing! I love the shader you used? Or whatever it. Fantastic job in that field for sure.

alineo 2018-05-01 08:44

Great idea ! the visuals are well done, but i'm not very good to this kind of game :3

bitsandcrafts 2018-05-01 17:07

uau GJ awesome entry. Great idea... the art+music are just perfect. Thanks.

eugene-myach 2018-05-02 09:13

Interesting idea and nice graphics, you should add multiplier for special tricks )

fusionnist 2018-05-03 14:12

Really cool! Tight controls, enjoyable visuals, funky music... congrats!

dp3rucha 2018-05-03 14:36

Nice ideaand execution, graphic style and clean tutorial fits perfect.

Really cool!

luciax 2018-05-03 14:37

Fantastic idea and work!!Both gameplay and artistic style are nice and polished. Take me thirty seconds to understand what I should do and soon begin to enjoy it. Hope there would be clearer goals and more levels!

randomphantom 2018-05-03 15:27

Graphics are great, controls are a little funky but I guess that's how the skater works. Good job slotting a word game in there, that was quite the incompatible genre!

jin9310 2018-05-07 06:12

I had a little problem to get used to the controls but after while I almost mastered it. A solid entry and definitely interesting and original concept you got here. Like it. Good job

raiyumi 2018-05-08 07:10

Quite a few bugs especially the big ramp(gets stuck halfway going up), but loving the idea and graphics! :)

cristiano-m-garcia 2018-05-09 12:01

I found the art pretty cool, but the pace of the game was slow. I think it would be nice to aim for words that should be assembled in a given time. Congratulations for the game.

I left my rating of your game, if you can leave your feedback in our game, Witch's Escape.

I hope you continue with the project.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/witchs-escape

norrimo 2018-05-12 07:05

Interesting concept. One problem: I played the web build and sometimes I got stuck in a wall. And I found the word SAU. I did not expect that I get for this word points because I thought it was just a german word. In german the word sau means sow or pig. Now I learned a new english word. Sow. Thanks. :D By the way, the graphic style is wonderful crazy. Love it.

joror 2018-05-12 07:08

Great graphics! And the genres truely are not really compatible - the speed of racing and the deliberate choices of spelling. :D But I had fun cruising and getting some words in. The controls (when I finally got into them) were very smooth. Improvements: - Some way to shuffle/rearrange the letters you already got (another minigame?) - Powerups in far away places that last a short time that double/triple cached words - Some indication of letter value (different colors/shades of letters?)

larzan 2018-05-12 09:56

Wow, great gfx and i love the idea, a very unusual combination, i think you'll be the only one who thought of that :p I am not sure if it is my system or a general problem, but the mouse wouldn't gain focus on the game when i played it in chrome Win7-64, so i couldn't 'free look' around which made playing the web build impossible.

digitaldude555 2018-05-12 13:21

Like many others have said its a very good artstyle one of the best i've seen this ludum dare, the combination actually works really well, you wouldnt think so if you just heard the idea but you made it work and made it fun. Good job.