icedjam 2021-10-04 22:14
A clever use of the theme. The music is really nice and welcoming. I like this game.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD49 → WobblyWords
By dannyk1994
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 1163 | 3.19 | 43 | |
| Fun | 1258 | 2.91 | 43 | |
| Innovation | 438 | 3.60 | 42 | |
| Theme | 777 | 3.51 | 43 | |
| Humor | 1007 | 2.51 | 37 | |
| Mood | 1153 | 3.00 | 40 |
A clever use of the theme. The music is really nice and welcoming. I like this game.
Really cool concept! I like the decaying of the letters and them eventually dropping out of the letter slots, but I found that they were dropping out of the slots pretty quickly, which made it very challenging, and sometimes the letters would get stuck in one part of the level and overlap and become un-clickable.
@kalevrk Thanks for the feedback! Ya I over balanced it a little, it went from staying too long to not staying long enough, game is a bit of a buggy mess tbh haha @icedjam Thanks for the feedback! Appreciate it!
Interesting take on the theme. Music and sound work well.
Nice idea for a game and I like the presentation. However, sometimes you get really difficult letters and all you can do is wait. Other than that I like it.
Interesting game and fun to play. Graphics and music are great. I find it quite challenging though because the time to find a word is very fast imo. Maybe you could make it speed up with time / or levels? And is it always possible to build words or is it random how the letters spawn? I feel i sometime get weird letters. The Tutorial is also well made, nice you found the time for it. Maybe choose another font for the Tutorial Text because its quite hard to read.
So interesting approach, but as for me the during of game are to small(or I do somthing wrong)
Really hard game but I like the original concept !
A really nice way to use the theme! The presentation is nice, but I got stuck really fast with only consones (but I may just be bad at the game, English isn't my first language!) (Also one time the screen turned black and I have to refresh the page; but it only happened once so it's not a big deal) Overhall a really nice game, well done!
@guilloteam Thanks for the feedback! I had considered that in the design, accessibility was always going to be an issue with this game. Going to add some features to help with that
Wobbling Words showed how many short words there are in english! maybe integrate some hints, as you saw it can be quite difficult for a non native english speaker.
A fun little game. There are a lot of possibilites. I like the idea of decaying words that put me on a clock. But I feel like i am too slow and keep dropping my words :D Sometimes the boxes overlap and i cannot grab any of them
Fantastic game, audio design is hilarious. Weapon combo is great addition. Had fun :)
Nice work! there were a few issues but I could see this being fun with more to it.
Ooh, so glad to see a word game in the mix! Love these. It's really interesting conceptually, since games that involve fast anagrams of words often don't *also* involve the dexterity required to drag them quickly to precise locations--as word games go, that made this one stick out for me.
A quick thought and a quick suggestion here. There were some moments where I would click and drag a tile to the empty boxes and let go, but then the letter tile would still follow my cursor until I clicked it again. I suppose it's possible this might be because the game supports both click-dragging and clicking once, moving the mouse, then clicking again? It was just a small thing that caused a few moments of frustration given the short amount of time there was for each tile.
The suggestion: it would be cool if you could support longer words! I would love a four- or five-letter mode with adjustments made to the amount of time before a tile falls out of the box. (Er, if this already exists and I didn't get to it, sorry!)
Cool game overall, though! I have a huge soft spot for word games, and the fun, bouncy mood plus the novel mechanic made this a fun play.
(also, was it just me or was the game kinda big in the browser screen lol)
This was a neat little game with a different approach to the theme. Only issue was that the letters would sometimes get dragged away with mouse even after placing them into a box, but otherwise nice job!
Nice game! My first impression was "it's scrabble with tetris" Then it became more of "oh no no no why is this not a word" I have a few issues with the gameplay, and it feels a little too unforgiving. The boxes fall out a little too early, there are way too many vowels spawning. I still like the concept, and I can definitely see this going someplace. Great job!
Fun concept! I wish you could make longer words. Unfortunately, at one point the screen went black while the music kept playing. I enjoyed playing it, good job!
@lunacyecho Thanks some much for the feedback, some of the mechanics like the way you placed tiles was more out of necessity to fix a bug I could not solve. I am glad you enjoyed it, 4 and 5 letters words were on the agenda but the issue with searching through a list of all 5 letter words was something I couldn't optimize without a severe lag spike. I'm really glad you liked the mood because I spend a bit of time messing with different sounds and songs to get it right :)
@ashley-gb @not-as-artistic @shores Thanks so much for the feedback :)
Great use of the theme, liked your art style. Solid game!
Sick entry. The Tutorial dude was super cute and i think it`a nice addition to the game and your tweening in the menu is on point. The speed of the game is quiet hard though. You don`t get words all the time. Overall well done :)
Fun game! I liked the idea, and I think that after some tweaking this game could be really good. Currently, most of the letters spawning are vowels and useless letters (x, z, etc.), and letters fall out too quickly. Also, the font in the tutorial was way too small and quite hard to read.
It was difficult for me since i'm not a native english speaker :p. The tutorial was nicely done. nice job.
First of all. That's a 5 stars for soundtrack for me. It is so catchy. Cool idea. Nice, clean art style.
It is quite hard for me as not native English speaker, but I had fun nevertheless.
@zimny11 Thank for the feedback! Have already implemented a feature for my post jam version for that! Accessibility is always an issue with games like this, going to experiment with adding different languages too
I was very very happy to see a word game in here! I think there's a ton of potential here. Especially for powerups, multipliers, etc. I found myself waiting a lot hoping for the right letters to fall but ended up with a bunch of Qs, Ys, and Zs. There definitely needs to be a bit of balancing here, but I love the feel and mood of the game.
I don't think I want to echo what others have said at this point.
But if you want to make this game a lot friendlier, then you should balance the distribution of letters around there, especially the consonants and the amount of letters that appear on the screen.
For example, there's definitely a moment where I ended up with 8 boxes of consonants with no vowels, so I never even have any chance to make a word. You should also weight more on letters that are more common. A quick google search would definitely help with that. Like, T, N, L, S, and C being the most common, having the best chance to appear and the vowels just appear in a random order.
I also actually ran out of time with the golden letter animation taking too long.
Other than that, it could be fun, it's just more infuriating at this state. Good work!
hahaha so much fun, it's quite challenging. solid entry, good job
[Thanks for submitting your game to stream!](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1172137556?t=03h11m22s)
I'm still upset that it didn't recognize POO as a valid word... :angry:
Still a very clever and fun game to play around with though! Nice job!
@coleslaughter That word will forever be excluded from future patches. Really enjoyed watching you stream and thanks for playing !
I found myself quite confused by this game. One time I played and there were no vowels, so I couldn't do anything. And the next time it was *only* vowels so I also couldn't do anything. Also sometimes just a bunch of letters would spawn in faster than I could possibly use them and I lost.
I think this idea has a bunch of potential, but it needs to be made much clearer what the rules are, why the letters are/aren't appearing. Occasionally something would appear on screen like "black hole" but I wasn't sure if that was something I did, or was random, or if it was a button I was supposed to press? I didn't seem to see a black hole appear on screen so it confused me a great deal.
I tried to follow the tutorial and it just got stuck on the second step. I tried CAB, ABC, BAC, and none of them changed anything. I had to force close the game to get out. Maybe the tutorial will have explained more if I could've got it to work?
So overall, interesting concept, needs a bit more work though!
@joeshanahan Thanks for the feedback, there are certainly too many mechanics going on, letter generation has been fixed now. Thanks for playing, appreciate the feedback :)
I put my playthrough of this up on YouTube, you can check it out here :smile:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_c61TA_VfM
Love the idea a lot and the gameplay works fairly well, still has some issues but that's expected for a weekend long jam