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A jam submission

Maximum OverflowView game page

Dodge cars and write long words!
Submitted by Philip Newsham — 5 hours, 45 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Enjoyment#143.5833.583
Concept#203.6673.667
Presentation#253.4173.417
Overall#273.3543.354
Use of the Limitation#472.7502.750

Ranked from 12 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Team members
1

Software used
Unity, Gimp

Use of the limitation
Your nuclear waste is not lasting, nor are the buildings over the course of the game.

Cookies eaten
1

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Comments

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Addicting! This is really fun!! Sometimes the keyboard would glitch out and I had to spam buttons to get it to work again but with a bit more polish this would be perfect lol

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing! I'm not sure what causes that bug, I will have to look into it!

Submitted(+1)

Awesome gameplay. Very interesting and fun idea. Combining runner gameplay with typing mechanics is an nice take on the concept. Sometimes the words to form were really hard (like I couldn't come up with a word that starts with DUT), but that maybe just because my limited knowledge of English words.

Developer

Thanks for playing! Yes some of the starting letters are pretty tricky (I could only think of DUTY for your example, which isn't a very long word!)

Submitted

Oh yeah... I could've gone with DUTIES. My bad.
I just couldn't think of anything at that moment.

Submitted(+1)

This was super intense, especially for a typing game! Second typing game this jam but this one had my eyes crossed at points!

Is it beatable? If so what kind of score should I aim for??

Developer

Thanks for playing! It is beatable, there's a distance tracker in the top left, get that to zero and the explosion will be far out of the city!

Submitted(+1)

I found this cool reminded me of guitarhero but that said I couldn't understand the typing system and that was not fun. I think with refinement or clearer instructions (if it does function as intended and is me) are required for that part of the game. Visuals music and sfx were great

Developer

Thanks for playing!

Submitted(+1)

What a great concept for a typing game! It’s very appealing, addictive, and a lot of fun to play!

Developer

Cheers!

Submitted(+1)

My inability of spelling english word is showing and I don't like it... cry

Developer

Sorry for the bad experience! But thank you for playing :)

Submitted(+1)

Pretty clever typing game. Although there was a bug where I couldn't type in the box on occasions. Over than that, I think the game was pretty neat.

Developer

Thank you! Yes, I've had that bug happen a couple of times, I'll have  to check it out.

Thanks for playing!

Submitted(+1)

Hey! We did play your game together with my friends.
Woof woof!

We did another typing game as well! Good to have competitions like this.

Best luck!

Developer

Woof! Yes, I have played your game - it's very good (even if my typing isn't up to scratch!)

Thanks for playing!

Submitted(+1)

I actually found this really enjoyable!! Maybe I'm too silly, but there were a few letter combinations that seemed impossible (think "vma") and I couldn't find a way to preface the letters given. Otherwise, I'm a speed machine. 

Developer

Thank you! You're actually very serious - I have gone through and checked if all of the starting letters (trigrams) actually have valid words in the words list - vma had none! As did 11 other pesky  v starters. So that shouldn't be an issue from now on!
Glad you enjoyed it!