Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD50 → Nyan Tower
By bgdc, sacredyouma, Revay, bruhohoho, Wulfe and Kenshia
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 361 | 3.78 | 32 | |
| Fun | 362 | 3.68 | 32 | |
| Innovation | 184 | 3.83 | 32 | |
| Theme | 758 | 3.60 | 32 | |
| Graphics | 233 | 4.21 | 32 | |
| Audio | 39 | 4.26 | 32 | |
| Humor | 154 | 3.95 | 32 | |
| Mood | 314 | 3.84 | 31 |
I just reviewed your game on my stream check out my full review at https://www.twitch.tv/scalphamission I would prefer typing with both hands but I get why we did the left hand only so that there could be mouse interaction (no pun intended).
A fun take on the whole typing game. Well implemented, with a nice topic and artstlye to it. Well done!
This was a fun game. Very stressful! But fun :smile:
It's an interesting twist to use mouse in a typing game it definitely felt like putting you of of a comfort zone in a good way.
The graphics and sounds were nice. Cute cats. Especially the one in the main menu :smile:
Good job everyone!
The link in your entry does only mention microsoft windows, while it looks like you also have a WebGL upload. So you should add another link in your entry, so Linux / Mac users also know that they can play your game.
Menu: I love the easter egg, which is hidden in the menu! The relaxing music really fits the sleeping cat athmosphere We have visual feedback on the buttons, which is good! Also all buttons have an OnClick sound <3 We can adjust the volume of the audio, which is also a huge plus! The game itself also started on a good volume. My ears thank you here! The custom mouse pointer also adds nicely to the athmosphere
The tutorial explains everything needed in an easy to understand way. Having the ingame menu is a nice addition, that way it is also possible to pause & restart the game, if your hands are failing you :D
Art: Everything is matching and adding to the athmosphere. The mice with the gun and also the tanks seem to miss any kind of attack animation. BUT having these animations mice fire projectiles could also harm the athmosphere here. Maybe some little recoil animation or just a change of the color of the sprite would have been sufficient here.
The sleeping cat is amazing :)
Music & Sounds: The music of the menu greatly matched the athmosphere of the peacefully sleeping cat! The music in the game playfully matched the not that sleepy situation in the garden and inside the house.
Fun: Yes! The game forces you to multitask pretty hardly here, which is nice. It starts easy in the house, but gets harder and even overwhelming at some point in time. <-Thats good! Having to concentrate on like 4 things at once and 100 mice invading the sleeping cat really keeps my brain active. I could also imagine letting kids play the game and learn typing :D
Also the game is not unfair, as you need to use your right hand for the mouse you only have your left hand to type in the letters, but that is okay as most of the letters are easily reachable using that hand.
Innovation: We have a typing game with multitasking activities. I guess thats something i have not seen before.
Humor: Guess i laughed my ass off, caused by the menu easter egg :P
Mood: As stated in previous categories, the game creates a matching athmosphere. And i had fun playing it.
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1251! Really nice game. I found the gameplay really engaging but kind of spikey. After a certain point my brain just kind of shut off and I typed all the letters. The art and music were very very nice, overall a really nice experience!
@scalphamission , @andidebob , @lawrence, @nerzal , @nardandas Thank you for trying our games^^ and we're really grateful for your feedback thank you very much. I hope u guys enjoy playing the game and heard the easter egg we put if u havent found it
Great entry! I've never played a typing game that incentivizes typing with one hand before! I managed to get 1200 but it got very hectic haha.
Awesome entry, had tons of fun playing amazingly done well polished! Thanks for the game :smile:
Really great entry! Haven't seen many typing games in a hot minute. The hitbox for the mice/grabbing items seemed a bit inconsistent. Really well thought out, with the music, the art, etc. Great job!
Made it to 1787 on my first try, the difficulty increased quite steeply at some point and I forgot that I could stun all the mice :-\ And then I broke it on my second play, realizing that button mashing is a valid strategy.
Great game though, I love how the typing is only for one hand (we should have done that as well in [LD37](https://jellenauta.com/games/LudumDarePostCompo/LD37/)). Graphics are super cute.
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@blue-pin-studio @wassim @orionhart Thank you for playing our game ^^ @dining-philosopher WOAH this is the best highscore i ever seen so far, thank you for trying our game ^^
Very interesting, this is the first 1h typing game I've seen as well. Here's the evolution of my play which may be useful for you: 1. Started off typing with 2 hands, expecting a normal typing game 2. While clicking and dragging items around, I realized everything was on the left side of the keyboard so I switched to KB+M 3. At some point I hit the wrong key and I see that you can type things out of order. I've also never seen this in a typing game and it set the stage for the next realization which was... 4. I started mashing more and more. Sometimes I would do some smart mashing with just 1h so that I could drag stuff around. Sometimes I did 2h. Sometimes I would take 4 fingers and just roll them down my keyboard.
I did end up quitting around 5k stage because I figured there was really no end to this strategy (though I didn't see @dining-philosopher 's score before I quit.
Definitely a very unique typing game variant with a lot of potential. Nice work!
very original very intriguing and i can see kids playing this hours on end! im sure it will be loved.
- maybe using a smaller portion of left hand keyboard keys might help - also not everybody uses qwerty so it might not be playable globally but the idea and execution is very nice. very well made polished game thanks for sharing maybe collecting resources by right hand sides keyboard might make it more accessible
overall had fun playing thanks again for sharing your game ! :smile:
Very cute game! I like the addition of the right click ability as well. Good job!
I only scored 660 but it was a good fight. And Mavis Beacon says 'hello!' :)
This is nice. gonna rate it nyan/10
I had a lot of fun playing the game. The story and graphics are really cute. I totally forgot to use stun when I was streaming it, but I tried it the second day and it worked great!
Thank you for sharing your game on my Twitch stream (MsMiaChar). Here's a link to the video (game starts around 03:09:00): https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1446760516
gave my feedbacks in stream here: @ 2:16 https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1449593775
1698 score heck ya! NyanTower.png
Such a great game! Art, sound fx, background music and random cat sounds fit so well together and feel consistent.
I felt there was some strange elegance to how the game looked and felt overall.
Good job!
I liked the simple and addictive gameplay! The decoration is harmonious, the music is very suitable.
Cute cat, and a well rounded game. I'm just terrible at typing games.
I like the part where you are a paw. Not a cat, barbecue you are protect the cat.
Fun game! The connection to the theme was a bit loose, seeing as it technically isn't "inevitable" that the cat will be woken up, but other than that I think it's pretty much perfect. The idea is really innovative and the game is designed quite well too. Good job in making all the graphics and audio by yourself in that timeframe btw! Overall, it's an enjoyable little concept. I would love to see it expanded into a full game!
Btw, I ended up getting a score of 1654! Quite happy :D
fun and solid little game, my high score is 923. i like that the letters are mostly what the left hand covers so you can keep your right hand on the mouse.
Very pretty game with good music 🐱 Writing with one hand so I can keep dragging and dropping items with the mouse was an interesting twist on the typing mechanic. Got very chaotic eventually and impossible to keep up, which was of course no surprise given the theme, but still frustrating 😅 I'm glad the cat's fail animation wasn't grimmer, poor baby. Very nice and polished, good job!
i think the art was really cute! music had a good mix of cute and exciting.
very interesting hybrid gameplay of typing and click and drag. definitely got overwhelming over time, and i button mashed to no avail.
instead of gathering resources to build up time, i think it would have been cool if it built up the bomb meter, and when you filled it up you could clear screen, instead of right clicking to stun, which feels kind of arbitrary.
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