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A jam submission

Bound by Your WordView game page

Name the word that connects to all the clues
Submitted by Plat — 15 hours, 17 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Audio#163.8863.886
Innovation#483.6573.657
Fun#663.6293.629
Overall#803.5243.524
Game Design#823.6573.657
Theme#1523.2573.257
Graphics#3043.0573.057

Ranked from 35 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
In the game, you need to think of a word that connects to the END of some clues and connects to the BEGINNING of others. So quite literally, your guess is both the end and also a beginning.

Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
So close! Yes, ALMOST everything (including most code, all music and sound effects, all puzzle design and all vector art).

I did NOT create: 2 background photos, the font, and the Levenshtein-distance function implementation. Full credits are in the Settings screen of the game.

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Submitted

It's hard since I'm not native English speaker, but I think it's a really interesting game and take on the theme too. You've got a tutorial, hints, skip, you thought about it all. Sure, graphics could be better, but you voiced a story with eye & armed pizzas.

Submitted

I loved the concept and how goofy this was! Great job!

Submitted

Quite a unique take on the theme. I felt the game is well-polished and I enjoyed playing it even though I failed so many times to be able to guess the correct word hehe. Good job!
I would really appreciate it if you could rate my game as well :)

Submitted

This is the first game of this came I saw on this gamejam. Looks kinda close to the CODENAMES game, which I sometimes play with my friends. Nice concept, thank you for sharing with us.

Submitted

Very nicely done. Tough, but the hints helped a lot. Very funny!

Submitted

personally, the auto hints saved this game for me :P, as I totally got stuck a number of times and needed them.
May not fully agree with all the connections :P, but with plenty of connections to be made each round, it didn't matter.
Loved the story, music and art :), all came together well.

Right amount of levels for the story mode (and a Jam game length), and I saw after completing that you could play "main game" with new levels, which is great for those who want more. 
Well done :)

Submitted

Very interesting game! I was happy to play it for the second time. It's very nice that you actually encourage people to learn through your game. I was about to comment that automatic hints were taking the fun out of it, but then I saw that they can be turned off, so that's on me. I love when people do their own voice acting and the music is cool too. Good job :)

Oh and I'm also very curious about how you actually made it. Is it using some outside dictionary or did you have to think of all the possible connections to words? How does it know which words are connected?

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing, and the constructive feedback!  I created the ~90 puzzles (i.e. the "answers" and the "clues") manually while searching Wiktionary phrases and Google 2-gram data for ideas. Since I already wrote a website that parses that data, the data was already available for me to query. I mainly focused on ambiguous words with the hope that they would have a bunch of phrases (since they'd be used in a lot of contexts).

Thankfully I didn't build the list of partially-correct words manually :D.  I wrote code that uses the 2-gram data to build the list of the top 500 strongest connections for a given clue, and builds that into the level data.   Hope that helps!  TremblingInferno had a similar question so there's a slightly longer response below in case that helps!

Submitted

Good Job. some of the word links are a bit hard but that is good.  Needs more levels

Developer(+2)

Thanks for the feedback! It's not obvious, but there's enough levels to play about 9 rounds. (About 90 puzzles.)  I'll make that more obvious in a future version.

Submitted (1 edit)

I really loved this silly and goofy game! Especially the story and also how you interpreted the theme! Wished there was more to that tho. The game was kind of hard and the UI & gameplay was hard at first, but I did got used to it. Another thing would be that people, that are not used to these kind of games like me or don't have english as their native language, have a difficult time guessing these words, something like a context clue (like in the tutorial one it could be like "a temperature") or some other kind of assist, but i think this could be expanded into a great mobile game, good job!  


(Also it would be nice if you play my game too ^^)

Developer

Thanks for playing, and the feedback on context clues! One of the play testers had a similar suggestion, so you're not alone! I was hesitant to add the clues because I wasn't sure if I could come up with a good clue for each of the 90+ puzzles. But now that I think about it, ChatGPT (or similar) probably would be able to do the heavy lifting for me. I'll keep it in mind for a future version, thanks!

Submitted

OK am going to play again lol. lets see if there are different words ! >_< !

Developer(+1)

That's awesome, thanks for sharing the love.  There are about ~90 puzzles in the deck , and the game avoids giving you questions that you've already solved (except for a bug where you might see the tutorial puzzle an extra time), so you should be able to play about 9 times with unique puzzles as long as you use the same browser on the same computer!

And I don't know how you work that phrase into a conversation, but if you can, that's amazing. The Great Armening is only 199,089 years away and we need time to prepare.

Submitted

lol HA HA HA this was Awesome - I LOVE word games so again I am biased here - but lets face it " the year is twenty eleventy twelve and pizza has grown arms "  my goal for tomorrow work that casually into a conversation with out mentioning this game - then have everybody play this game lol - I got the words some with the hints others straight away -  Nice voice acting too !!!

Submitted

Pizza has grown ARMS! Man I love the story of this game, awesome job on the voicelines and everything. Also really cool gameplay, even though I barely got any words... 

Developer

Who knew arms could cause such a commotion! Thanks for the feedback on the difficulty - you're not alone. I didn't have enough time to figure out  and group the puzzles' difficulty, but I wish I had! 

If you didn't make it to the end and want to see that short end-of-game cutscene, there's a cheat code "XRIGHTO" that basically acts like you typed the correct answer. So if you guess "XRIGHTO", it's like guessing the correct word. 

Submitted

Oh thats funny that there is a cheat code, I meant that I got all words with hints and made it to the end, but didn't barely get words without hints.

Developer (1 edit)

Oh! I get it. Thanks again for the feedback. Yeah, I needed some cheat codes to make test certain edge cases related to ending the game, and exercising each puzzle. :)

Submitted

This game is both hilarious and giga-cool. 

I loved the story parts, (voice acting was great!), well paced and very funny. The game itself was really enjoyable and hints were given when I got stuck (thank you!..). 

Also I love the music track that plays throughout the game, caught myself head bobbing while thinking of words.

Great game, great entry. Thanks for the fun!

Submitted

Good job, I like the game art style :)

would play my game and rate it according 

Submitted

LOVED the music and the story, a really fun game with soooo much character

Submitted

Pretty amazing work here!  I loved it!  Well done!

Submitted

pretty hilarious game, the theme does kind of fit the word system and the system is pretty well made

Submitted

Nice game! Cool visuals and audio and the complexity of the word puzzles is impressive for a jam game!

Submitted

The music is really, really well made. The story was definitely interesting. Well done!

Submitted

I really love your game! The voice acting is stellar and the story is really funny. I also quite enjoy these kinds of word puzzles!

If you don’t already know it, The Mystery League has a lot of puzzles that remind me of yours. (You can find them here https://twitter.com/pzlr?lang=en)

Developer(+1)

Thanks for the feedback! I haven't heard of Mystery League, I'll check'em out. Thanks for the tip!

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