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A jam submission

Contest to SuggestView game page

Make your way from a word to another by going through suggested terms.
Submitted by srpent, OutOfCharacters — 10 minutes, 18 seconds before the deadline
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Theme inspiration
We wanted to let the player create their own passage (as in a poem or book). We did that by making them go from word A to word B, kind of like if you were stringing an argument, but easier. At the end, you can see both player's "paths", displayed like "From A to B to C to D to the end." We rewarded simplicity/elegance by making the shortest path the winner.

Sensory info
Words pop in and out on a predictable and not too radical manner, and there's this typing animation/effect. I don't think that they should be too worrying, but better safe than sorry.

Content info
The game's word-relation algorythm is managed through a third party API, so please be warry that you might be able to stumble upon words or word relationships which you might find unsensitive or of bad taste; know that this is not a deliberate choice from the developers. You'll usually be fine if your words stick to the more family friendly area, but play at your own discretion.

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What a wild little experience that was. I love that you get to pick your opponent's starting word. I love the circle of words. Using the API like that is a great way to make a game that is normally quite subjective a legitimately competitive challenge.

I feel like the introduction could have been smoother, rather than relying on text boxes, if the players got to type in their names one at a time, like in You Don't Know Jack, it would be less fiddly. Also, a quit button would have been appreciated. Otherwise though, there's a lot of good in this.