This is really cool idea that works amazing with the resolution. Really sad i didnt see it until after the rating period.
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RUNEDUCK!!!'s itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Authenticity (use of resolution) | #32 | 4.733 | 4.733 |
| Gameplay | #34 | 3.933 | 3.933 |
| Overall | #49 | 4.075 | 4.075 |
| Audio | #86 | 3.700 | 3.700 |
| Graphics | #89 | 3.933 | 3.933 |
Ranked from 30 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Did you work in a team?
Solo
Was the resolution a challenge?
From start there was idea for game about letters. That letters in lowrez are hard.
What did you learn?
A lot! litl bit hasty with this poll )
Comments
Oh, I adore this! What a lovely idea and a creative take on a "typing game". I've been typing all my life and I could easily press any given letter on the board, but having to think "Okay, I need a letter with a high bar" or "Okay, I need a letter to hit both sides" is an entirely different duck. Bravo.
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hopWhat a creative little game!
I need to draw a chart of the font to become a pro gamer at RuneDuck :)
I’ll second the other comment about making all the letters uniform in width. It’d feel more intuitive if, say, “E” covered the same cells as “F” plus the bottom bar.
If you’re worried about the middle-left and middle-right columns not being hit as often, how about making the vowels bold? Something like this perhaps:
AAA EEEEE IIIII OOO UU UU
AA AA EE I OO OO UU UU
AAAAA EEEE I OO OO UU UU
AA AA EE I OO OO UU UU
AA AA EEEEE IIIII OOO UUU
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AshScendThank you! Very nice of you )
About width - very agree with you and others that it's counter-intuitive. Myself always falls into E / F trap. Yeah, the point really was about hitting 2nd and 4th columns more frequently, but also make 1st and 5th column hitting less frequently to round up "probability" of cell hitting. Though your idea about bold vowels don't come to me, it's really clever. I'm glad that my game made you so involved ))
Very unique and creative game idea. Having to mentally picture different letters on the board as enemies decent is rather stressful and keeps you on your toes (in a good way lol). I think maybe the game could have been improved a little by speeding up the turns as time went on however (or maybe it did, and I just didn't notice?). Either way, nice job.
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Necrostationreally enjoyed this game, the gameplay is really fun and creative.
nice game.
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Solar QuestNeat game! Reminds me a lot of Bookworm, a game I was addicted to back when I was in ESL classes haha. I didn't really understand when/how the letters reset though, that would've helped me plan my letters better.
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FlowGo Mini - 迷你流棋Thank you! Oh, I also played bookworm game in childhood! Though in my case it was Bookworm adventures. Very liked it despite the absence of knowledge of English words at that time))
Letters resets when crystal becomes green. It fills when you kill an enemy. At that times book shines, all letters turned green and you can use them one more time.
I really enjoyed this, such an original idea and very fun to play. The only thing that bothered me is that the letters are not all the same width, which made it hard to know where a letter would hit on the grid, I kept missing things in the left hand column when I was using the E key. Maybe you did that deliberately so that every square would be covered, I don't know. Either way, very fun, and it was cool discovering which letters hit a lot of squares at once. :)
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Low Rez ArenaNice idea and cool graphics, it's a bit too difficult at first because it's hard to guess which pixels the font will cover
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Sand BladeHmmm it's clever idea! I would defenetly use it if game was turn based. Okey, it IS turnbased , but with a limited time on turn. And that forces some chaotic desitions. And thats good for me )
Of course it would be ideal if players knows where exactly they attack, but that will come with practice it seems.
Really clever idea. I like how it takes a while to regenerate letters so you're forced to get creative. There was some guess work with letters not hitting the cells I expected, but I'm not sure how you would fix that.
The graphics and the audio are charming. The duck's expressions are a nice touch.
I wish the score counted the enemies killed rather than the rounds passed. Maybe some score bonuses if you kill a bunch of enemies with one letter. I could never seem to get further than round 2 so it would be nice to have some more granularity.
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Planet BusterThank you!
Yes, many people point that letters written not like they expected. And I really don't know how to fix it ) I really wanted to use more standard way of writing, but don't hit it every time as you noticed. Oh, what letters made you difficulties?
I really wanted to add scoring for killing enemies and bonuses like you suggested, but during development I run into troubles with fonts and that idea was cut (
I love it ^^ theres definitely some trial and error and eventual panic mashing haha but this is great. I love you attention to detail with rune ducks expressions if you already used a letter or not. :)
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Slug In HeatThis is a interesting novel idea. It was not always certain how the letter would be displayed on the grid so there was a bit of trail and error but solid entry.
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Robo-Showdown!Innovative idea and nicely executed. Looks good, sounds good and plays well. Good stuff!
One small gripe is that the game doesn't use the user's own keyboard layout so for touch typists on non-qwerty keyboards, hitting the correct letter is extremely difficult.
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Creepy-UppyClever idea, great UI, lovely duck. I really enjoyed my time with it, I panicked a couple of times and hammered frantically on the keyboard. It just works, amazing.
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The first Camel AI DetectiveOww thanks! Espessialy for lovely duck!
Oh! At last! It may sound strange but I happy to hear that you panicked couple times ))
One moment you hold situation under control. It almost boring. Next second - its three rows full of enemies, you click on B, your best frend, but letter dont respond. W? M? D, last resort !??!? Oh no, all hearts are broken... That feeling )
It worked for me, and I hoped will worked for someone else)
It took me a bit to understand how it works but.. what a great idea :) Very good game! To make the game a bit easier, one possible option is to allow to press a key twice (maybe using green, orange, red pattern in the keys?).
Good job!
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Sliding Puzzle HeroThank you! )
I don't wanted make game hard delibirately, on the contrary i wanted to make game that you can easly understand. Concept of nonrepeating letters itself seems non easy, but nesessary for better gameplay. If I add third color on "keaboard" it maybe could make game too hard to understand. Or not )) Thank for opinion any way.
Hey smartmagpie. I'm playing the WebGL version of your game.
So far so good, I like the concept. Want to play it a little bit more but was surprised about one thing:
Volume keys from my keyboard changes the sample being played in the game :D!
Not sure if its a bug or was intentional, but I was amusingly surprised by this bug/feature XD.
So much that I might use some similar in the future.
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SoundPathsI really really love the game concept! It's a little annoying that you can't repeat letters but it does make the game better. I also like the soundtrack a lot and it looks great.
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