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By eeldam

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall7343.0723
Fun7062.9221
Innovation584.1123
Theme5693.4523
Graphics7222.8523
Audio5202.7323
Humor6172.2720
Mood5093.4523

Comments

aldenwitt 2025-04-12 00:07

Great idea! This is such a unique approach to the theme, and a great idea for a game. Sfx are effective, and gameplay is easy to understand. My biggest gripe is balance - some sentences are a clear and easy switch of the first two words ('Did I' becoming 'I did'), while others are impossible. You also miss some messages, though that seems inevitable. I'd love a way to swap out words - you wind up with a lot of unusable jumbles. I'd love some background music!

Overall though, this is a strong submission. You took it in an unexpected direction and that's worth a lot.

thomas-higgins 2025-04-12 00:11

Groovy idea - the whole thing feels polished and well executed, I struggled to put together thoughts but that might just be that I am bad at word games, cool entry!

jamesgames1000 2025-04-12 19:09

Cool idea it took me a little bit before I got good at putting the sentences together. Great job :)

tomknocker44 2025-04-12 19:12

Neat idea, but pretty challenging. I'm not sure how you clear some of the sentences, and maybe it would be nice to have some words you can store for later use.

wuppos 2025-04-12 19:17

I really liked the idea of this game! It is super unique and the topic is very relatable. It is also very satisfying to puzzle around with the words and remaking these sentences :) Sometimes I really did not see how I could rephrase a sentence to something good though. Maybe I am just not good enough at this game :/

That being said, I really like the creativity of this game. I really loved it :D

mdsalomon 2025-04-12 19:23

Really clever take on the theme, I don't think I've ever seen a word game employ so much tension. Some example sentences or a clearer direction on what counts as a good or bad sentence would help a lot. Very creative entry!

ryusui 2025-04-13 02:32

Magnetic Poetry (Savage) XD

I love the concept, though I'll admit the conditions for "good thoughts" vs. "bad thoughts" felt a bit arbitrary. Would love to see a version with a bit more feedback/better indication as to how to "do good" at it.

moonlightbomber 2025-04-14 07:02

A novel take on the concept.

rubixnoob13 2025-04-14 11:03

I like the idea, although I kept getting a bunch of things like "no no no no" and I'm not really sure what to do with that. Not sure if others have this, but for the audio in the web build, I basically just had a deep rumble/buzzing sound. Wasn't sure if it was supposed to sound like that or if I was having sound issues.

Awesome interpretation of the theme, and a neat concept I haven't seen before. Good job!

mod-wiz 2025-04-25 17:37

Unusual take on theme, but very difficult.

slow-chaz 2025-04-25 17:48

cool UX, satisfying to drag words around

based-on-life 2025-04-25 17:48

It's a really cool idea, however some sentences that I thought were "calming" didn't get picked up. I'm not sure if there are multiple answers or only one answer but that was a bit confusing. Otherwise it's really cool

jnur 2025-04-25 17:53

Pretty hard to get started, I think I did two full attempts without thinking of a single good sentence :sweat_smile: Fun when I got a grasp of it. A really smart idea, with more varied words and sentences it could be a really fun word game! Right now it felt like there were too few good matches, and most were the same "did I" to "I did" swap. It works impressively nicely with the dragging and stuff, really polished!