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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Gameplay | #11 | 3.474 | 3.474 |
| Audio | #14 | 3.158 | 3.158 |
| Overall | #28 | 2.768 | 2.768 |
| Theme | #33 | 2.632 | 2.632 |
| Weirdness | #41 | 2.316 | 2.316 |
| Visuals | #42 | 2.263 | 2.263 |
Ranked from 19 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How did you interpret the theme?
Word game that the player must find all five words to BLACKOUT the game board
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wow such a cool game you made!! i like the wordle based idea to find 5 letter words for blackout! good art and music!
Simple but really cool puzzle game, reminds me of wordle.
Love the music. Really chill and a good game to test if I know a lot of english words xD.
Thanks for playing. Yeah Alexander Nakarada -- Forest Walk is the music. i use a lot of his stuff. Very mellow.
ChatGPT to save the day and becomes an expert in Lemonbotomy. This is the conversation I just had.
"Bxtreamly Bool Bame, Bunfoentely Bi Ban BBad bat Belling, Bo Bi Ban't Benboy Bit Bo Bits Bullest Bexten , this sentence uses 'B' in the beginng of the word, can you tell be what is says?
Yep 😄 — stripping the extra “B” sounds/letters from the beginning of the words, it appears to say:
The middle part is a little mangled, but that seems to be the intended sentence.
You did great! Bank Bou Bery Buch
😂 “Thank you very much!”
BYou're Belcome! 😎"
Bxtreamly Bool Bame, Bunfoentely Bi Ban BBad bat Belling, Bo Bi Ban't Benboy Bit Bo Bits Bullest Bextent
Bank bou bo buch bor blaying by bame. Bits bool bhat bo book bhe btime bo blay. Bi bave ba beadache bow. Bake Bare!
This was such an exceptionally creative way to interpret the theme! It was fun and had me playing over and over again to see how high I could score!!
So happy to hear when someone plays the game and really enjoys it. Thank you!
This one's great and an extremely creative take on the theme. Shoutouts to Alexander Nakarada also, probably my pick for favorite royalty-free composer. I don't really have a lot of notes because to say what I liked would be to basically describe the whole game! It's simple and incredibly effective.
If I have any nitpicks: one is that it would be nice to go back to the title screen to see the rules from the game screen. I figure "Exit" is meant to close the game, since it otherwise doesn't do much. Further: the assumption I made personally when reading "The word WORDY is not in this round" was that anything that wasn't explicitly part of the five words scrambled in was invalid, and other real words would not be taken in. It wasn't until i was left with the letters B E E B E (funnily enough, considering your user!) that I realized getting a blackout is a bonus, not the goal. Might be worth clearing that up?
But really: this is an all-timer. Considering your background I was really looking forward to what you had in store, and my expectations have been thoroughly exceeded. Great job!
Thank you for taking the time for such a thoughtful comment. I really do appreciate the good words. See what I did there?
As for the Message "The word WORDY is not in this round" you were correct. However, I changed the logic for game play and the message now indicates I could not find the word in the 12,000 word library I used to verify input. I had a 1000 word one, but my wife played the game and she kept getting the message. So the message should say "The word WORDY is not in the game dictionary'.
As for the 'Rules' not being on the play screen, you are right on the money and I am going to change that as well.
The 'Exit' is part of how the browser handles leaving a game. On the PC it drops to desktop, in a browser is just kind of hangs out. I am going to put logic in to go to the Credits screen and then stay there.
Thanks again for playing the game, it means a lot to an old timer.
ERROR THIS GAME IS TOO GOOD!!!
What is blessing my ears?!
LOVE the idea!!!
Could you pls, preatty pls try my game too?
I will play it tomorrow hopefully
Favourite game so far! It was really fun! Amazing game
Man, that is a really good score! Well done, and thanks for playing!
Really unique, in a good way! Also, I love the music
Thanks for playing. Greatly appreciated
Good game, you didn't get wrong when you named it Five word chess lol :)
Thanks for playing brother. Good luck in the jam!
The music is PERFECT for the meditative vibe of this game. I'm not 100% sure why some letters were in different colors, but it did make it look snazzy! I really enjoyed challenging myself to find the most entertaining words I could (e.g SQUID and QUOTH), and repeatedly running out of vowels by the last couple words haha. Great work!
The colors are for the bonus for the letters, Yellow is double, blue is 3x and red is 4x. Thanks for playing
Ah got it--thank you! :)
This is really unique!! :D
A word game in a sea of rpgs is rather refreshing, and I really like it, the music ir relaxing, and the gameplay's a nice loop to it!!
Its great to see, thanks for rating my game, good luck!
This is really unique!! :D
A word game in a sea of rpgs is rather refreshing, and I really like it, the music ir relaxing, and the gameplay's a nice loop to it!!
Its great to see, thanks for rating my game, good luck!
Wow I just learned that I suck at word games lol. I like the unique take on the theme. The only thing I would like is some goal or ending. There currently is no reason to keep going besides the score. Maybe a minimum score per round required to pass? This is a nice game though! Good job making it!
Yeah, the goal was to finish the game. I should have put something in to reach the end. Thanks for playing
You did make a game. You should be really proud of that!