mikedirl 2018-04-23 21:25
This game is great fun. There is alot of personality in the game. The typing to control the fighting is an interesting idea, i just wish I could type faster. The retro style and graphics are nice as well.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD41 → Mortal Keybat
By dOb
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 179 | 3.65 | 61 | |
| Fun | 116 | 3.73 | 61 | |
| Innovation | 129 | 3.76 | 60 | |
| Theme | 129 | 4.01 | 61 | |
| Graphics | 304 | 3.35 | 61 | |
| Audio | 190 | 3.27 | 61 | |
| Humor | 35 | 3.87 | 60 | |
| Mood | 136 | 3.49 | 61 |
This game is great fun. There is alot of personality in the game. The typing to control the fighting is an interesting idea, i just wish I could type faster. The retro style and graphics are nice as well.
Super awesome game!
Haha, very fun mashup of ideas. Nicely implemented too.
I do think the intro sequence was a bit long, though very charming.
Anyway, keep up the great work!
Nice! Same as above, I thought the intro was a bit long (for something I could not skip), and started a couple seconds after I might expect. But once I got into the typing, I enjoyed it.
Pretty fun game, dialogues should be skippable imo.. not that its bad, just that it takes too long to get to next one :) pretty good entry!
Yes, I was going to make the dialogues skippable, but didn't quite get there. Sorry for the wait.
Nice game mechanics and smart way of using the theme ! Sound and graphics are really cool too, impressive job !
I loved it. The intro was so funny. I love typing tutor games. Amazing job!
Cool game! I’m quite bad at typing so I found it quite difficult but it’s probably just me:) Still, it would be cool if you had an easy mode with shorter words, and then maybe also a hard mode with really long ones. Also, the intro should probably be skippable, but it’s not a big issue. Overall, I liked it a lot. Good job!
Nice to see I'm not the only one who combined typing with another genre (and we used the same font!). I think the graphics and sound were great (and very appropriate for the mood you were going for), the only problem I had was the text telling me to press R to retry the level was in an aqua sort of colour that I could barely read against the background (pretty minor problem though).
Maybe I'm too good a typist, but once I figured out what I was doing I found it pretty easy - maybe a difficulty select would have been good if you'd had more time. On the last level, I didn't even need to bother with the invaders because the blue guy was KO'd long before they reached me.
Dangit Jerry, every time.
I enjoyed the intro story and the whole framework, it was really well-written. I guess the ability to advance the text manually would have alleviated the problems other people had with its length, skipping it altogether would have ruined the story, at least for me. The gameplay felt very polished, I think you struck a nice balance of difficulty. During level one I thought it was too easy, but then the other levels happened and I got pleasantly surprised. On that note, the structure was really well-done, every level was more fun than the previous one. So yeah, cool idea, great execution.
Fun game! Nice graphics and good work with the sound as well. Fun and humorous game! I enjoyed it very much. Good job!
I can't type to save my life :laughing: Good use of theme and I loved the dialogue :smile: Congrats on completing and submitting your game!
neat idea, well executed! the writing is really funny too!
Fun game. I really liked the music, very suitable for a 90s fighting game!
This is awesome! I really have had a good time, it's so challenging! The downside is that I suck typing 😆 Anyways, it's fun, humorous and have a solid gameplay, so nice work!
I'm not nearly good enough at typing to make any headway in the game but the concept, look and feel were all really good, well done!
Made it the invaders level before it got too much for me. Typing and fighting was a fun combo, maybe it would have been better to focus on that aspect and added in like combos or other fun stuff instead of adding new elements like barrel jumping and invaders. Not sure if its a bug or a feature that you can type all the letters apart from the last one and then just wait for the right moment to trigger with the last key, sort of problematic when the words overlap in characters though. Anyway I wouldn't have got very far without this technique. Had fun, brought back memories of all those old fighting games like karate champ and kung fu master. I agree the intro is too long, I just wanted to get to the game. Graphics are ok and do the job, found the music a little bit on the annoying side though.
Fun! I like how the following levels bring in something new to mix it up.
Woooowwww so talking to me... I recognized my self so much in this game. Year of birth ? 1983 ==> checked ! My first fight game ? Mortal Kombat ==> checked ! Best humor type ? something crazy (like in old-fashion point-and-click) ==> checked ! Our first idea for this LD ==> typing fight game ==> checked ! Great realization - just make the intro skippable...
I really like the game! I found it quite easy since my typing is quite fast, but the theme and innovation were pretty good. I would like to see how far the core idea could go, as it seems pretty solid. The dialogue also added a lot to the game, as it made me want to continue to the end (imagining poor Jerry's struggles).
Loved the graphics/audio! Super fun intro! Didn't got well the blocking part. I supose the "IIIIIIAH" announces an incoming attack. But haven't grip it yet. Good work!
This is so fun! It was so much better than a normal typing game because it required a good deal of concentration and planning. There is sooo much more potential here.
Nice game
Good game, the multitasking is a lot of fun and the game is nicely explained through the dialogs.
Really fun game, good job for getting this done in a compo time! :smile:
Really nice meta aspect to it, and appreciate the effort to carry through the 80's aesthetic through the whole thing.
Well done, thanks for sharing!
Really enjoyed playing, really like the idea of typing for fighting! The space invaders made for interesting and fun gameplay. The story-line also made me laugh a few times! Nice work. :)
You really set the mood nicely! The framing story was cute and effective. I really enjoyed the whole package; really impressed with what you did in 48 hours!
I would maybe have liked a little different pacing -- faster pacing on the cut-scenes in particular. Also, once you get the timing of blocking, I found typing attacks quickly to be quite easy so that the 'additional' elements could be mostly ignored.
I had a lot of fun with this game. I love the fact that you can make progress on multiple words at the same time. The extra challenges later on were also great and the multitasking was fun. Great job!
This was great! Thanks a lot for the game, I really enjoyed the combination of the themes. It was fairly easy for me since I could just block once and then type the other guy to KO, but still had a lot of fun!
Nice! A really nice story effort for a jam.
Very good theme respect, + a li'l cool story with it. Nice one
A very funny little game idea, but I am way to slow to able to win. The best part of the game is the intro story. Overall a very well made compo game. Well done.
I really liked the humor in the intro of this game. The typing system worked super smooth. Nice game!
Great job! The theme mashup worked great, the game was funny and fun. I don't know if allowing people to pre-type words and only type the last letter to actually "attack" or "defend" was intentional, but it worked well! The last level was actually difficult, but I did manage to beat the whole thing.
@ViridianGames Yes, it was intentional (see hints above). I'm glad you enjoyed it - thanks for the useful and kind comments.
Great submission! This was a lot of fun to play! I wish you could skip through some of the dialog to get to the game faster though. Also, audio didn't seem to work on the HTML version, but great game overall!
maybe it's a good idea to have skippable intro, but it semms like a solid game!
I'd like to be able to skip the intro initially (for the replay cases). The sound effects are funny and the music is lively. I found it a bit difficult to play, but with practice it would be possible to improve (I do not know if it's really at the level of difficulty on the part of the opponent (machine)).
Suggestion... There is already feedback on when to block and such, but could be a bit more obvious (again, it may be inexperience with this type of game).
I do not know if it is the intended one, however before starting a new round the previous sequences remain partially loaded.
It's neat but here's what I got to say: -the sound didn't work in my browser [chrome] pver here -it's cool you have explainations of how to play here on this page but I'm thinking maybe you're saying too much instead of letting players discover how everything works on their own -it's a shame the little opening dialogue can't be skipped or speeded up ^^# -the HTTP5 build didn't detect my dcreen's witdh and the game was cropped on the sides
Beyond that it's pretty good ^^# It's pretty well executed, the story is cute, the challenge is original, I enjoyed that, well done :-)
Nice game. I really like typing games, and Karate Champ was one of the first games I owned as a kid. The gameplay felt solid, especially after I figured out that I had to block before attacking (I'm bad for not reading instructions, especially when they're really long). The space invaders game felt like it was tacked on at the end and really didn't seem to affect the outcome. Nice "ship it" joke at the end. I would have played more if it was longer.
Other might have mentioned it, but it would be nice to be able to skip some of the opening dialog. I felt it was quite lengthy and I was almost put off by it. Glad I didn't though because the game was interesting. I would say it is the best typing game I have played sofar. I didn't catch that it was a typing game to start with. I glanced through the text here on the page looking for instructions and didn't spot any. It would be good if there were a section labelled instructions.
Good job! Cool game!
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Really enjoyable game ! A little bit of surprise, a weird idea done in a pretty clever way, a little difficulty but a real pleausre to win ! And some strategy came after a while ! And the mix of genre work really well ! With the exception of the graphism (even if it give a ton to the game) the game is a perfect example of a perfect jam gam ! I want more !