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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Originality | #63 | 4.291 | 4.291 |
| Fun | #102 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Overall | #131 | 4.036 | 4.036 |
| Presentation | #635 | 3.818 | 3.818 |
Ranked from 55 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?
Joining letters together to make words to solve problems
Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?
Yes
We created the vast majority of the art during the game jam
Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?
No
We used pre-existing audio
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This was a blast. The way it implemented the theme was really cool. This was really awesomeeeeee!!!
Great game, very polished. Movement and using the bow in particular felt great. Would love to see what other puzzles y'all could come up with!
Great concept, had fun. Level 3 seemed to be impossible though
Thanks for the feedback! All of the puzzles are solvable but some are are more tricky than others.
This game has a ton of possibilities and is overflowing with potential. I love the potential of it and can't wait for more. I do think the music for the countdown is a bit loud. At first I thought I broke the target or something since it just kept beeping
Hi there, thanks for the feedback. When designing the levels, I did set a generous timer for all the targets. This could be changed in future but in my defense, by the time I could test the timing, we had about 20 minutes to submit the game XD. And similar thing happened to the sound, we would definitely lower some volumes.
Like the concept. had a lot of fun figuring all the different words out
This is incredibly clever and very well made! You guys did a lot with the concept in such a limited amount of time and there are so many ways it could be expanded upon and explored. Really enjoyed working my way through the puzzles and seeing what I could and couldn't make and what interactions the different items had with each other. Really impressive showing! Great job!
Very clever and creative game! You could add a lot more words and mechanics to this to make a many extra levels! Great job!
This game has a ton of potential - it was really fun! Nice job; I'd love to see this expanded in the future!
Really cool concept, art is really good and the gameplay is really fun!
Really nice! I expected some useless but funny easter eggs, like lamb, or boot, but i see how that would be hard in 2 days. reminds me a bit of scribblenauts! Nice job, the puzzles were really well done :)
That's a good idea though. If we decide to expand on the project we'll definitely have to add some joke items in there.
Definitely a cool idea! It might be neat if more word combinations were possible--then there might be different solutions to any given puzzle.
interesting idea, this feels like im playing some word search lol. although it only works for english but hey this is a game jam game
Thanks for trying our game out!
We did consider designing the UI like a crossword puzzle at one point lol.
Yeah, unfortunately I don't think it would be possible to translate this style of game.
Nice idea, I think if you could save your items after you used them once, would be nice, because you need to write the letters kinda often.
But other than that, it was really fun playing it.
Great game with a super original concept and pleasant and fitting visuals. Not quite sure why typing BOOM doesn't create a giant explosion and let me break through to the end of every level but ok...
We clearly missed a beat there haha
Thanks for the feedback!
I really enjoyed this one! I like that managing which letters you use at which time is a core element and it really meets the "joined together" theme quite nicely!
Interesting little game quite fun. having some sort of controls/options button to tell you the configuration of the controls would be helpful. sounds were great animation is really cute. overall a solid 4 star game :D
Really good game overall. I don't really feel like it fits the theme that well, personally, but it's still a really strong game. But please, please don't put repeating obnoxious sounds like that timer/alert sound in your games anymore! It could have been a tick-tock sound or something and it wouldn't have made me want to turn off the volume.
Thanks for the feedback! Originally you were supposed to be dragging the letters around to spell the words so you were physically joining them together and taking them apart. Unfortunately that proved to be too challenging to program in the time allowed so we had to swap last minute. I think the game works better like this but it takes away from the theme a bit.
I agree with you on the timer sound. I think it was originally created with the intention of only playing for a few seconds like with the bomb but we didn't have time to review it.
Huh. Yeah, this was brilliant. The art and audio were a great fit, and I love the way you had to be careful with what you create. There was loads of variety in the puzzle design, too, which was a pleasant surprise with such a complex core mechanic. Great work!
Glad that you liked it! It was pretty tough programming all those mechanics in 2 days! Our level designers did a great job with them :)
great game, fun and animation is great. only thing i would include is a "control/intstruction" section as arrows didn't work only wasd and then had to click between items for letters
That's good feedback. I didn't consider adding alternative controls. There were plans to include a menu that could have included controls on it but ultimately we ended up not having enough time
Very fun and I loved the art/animation style! Only wish there were more possible words
Thanks! I had to put a cap on the number of possible words and items to keep things doable in the jam time limit, but if we were ever to revisit it we'd definitely want to add more :)