A story told through typing actions out. Works surprisingly well.
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Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Story/Writing | #20 | 2.722 | 3.143 |
Challenge | #29 | 3.134 | 3.619 |
Audio | #32 | 2.928 | 3.381 |
Gameplay | #39 | 2.928 | 3.381 |
Overall | #41 | 2.887 | 3.333 |
Concept | #42 | 3.340 | 3.857 |
Visuals | #47 | 2.639 | 3.048 |
Use of Theme | #48 | 2.309 | 2.667 |
Ranked from 21 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Team Members
JonathKane Archivist Enalye Wodkanna
Comments
This was fairly buggy (using the spacebar dialogue skip messed up progression, wriggle's status text was very inconsistent, and I couldn't get past minoriko due to crashes)... but it has a lot of cool stuff, and I enjoyed it overall. The original art and music was great to see, but I particularly liked the feedback of the typing sound and screen effects. The writing and combat dialogue also have a certain charm to them, so the story was much more interesting than an excuse to type commands.
Man I wish I could reach the end of the game without crashing on Eirin's stage.
Otherwise it's quite an enjoyable game, with quite good background art, and the fights all feeling different from one another.
I like how the story started too so it's really unfortunate I can't see it to the end.
There are a few bugs and small annoyances like this time when starting Wriggle's fight, she was immediately "left exposed" and absolutely no prompt came up, so the game got soft-locked. Or when you can invalidate your next command by pressing a key after you've completed a command.
And of course, the crashes happening at Eirin's stage, most often after completing a command - even though I'm using the hotfix build. I normally wait until I send my ratings to write a comment but I'd really like to see the game in its entirety before I give the ratings. It's not too late yet, I believe in you~
Very cool! Typing games are fun, and I really like how this one feels. My poor vision does not do well with sections where the description text is on a white background though (like the clouds in Wriggle's stage)
I’m a typing and Typing of the Dead enthusiast so this was a welcome sight, had to take a few days break from the jam to rest my fingers and hands in preparation for this one.
I really, really liked the audio and visual feedback from the typing sections! But, I was a bit sad to see that the game would bug out and crash, surprisingly often. Perhaps due to my own fault for typing when no prompts were given.
Besides that, I did find the text to advance a bit too slowly, and pressing a key to force the text to finish didn’t always work, so some way to configure that would help the with experience.
One with potential indeed, but I didn't get past minoriko since it crashed multiple times, so IDK if there's something after that.
This gave me Typing of the Dead vibes and I loved that, specially liked how the keys on screen clicked. But still it needs to polish more, specially on the audio, since everybody has the same bgm.
Text also is a problem, is hard to read sometimes when you try to concentrate on your typing, more simple or the use of colors could be better. I also don't like text going over the character too, doesn't make much sense while having that much space at the bottom, or you could add "movie stripes" for them to exist without conflicting with any of the elements on screen.
Still, quite fun, animations are smooth and pretty, but it need to add the missing content and solve it's glitches, I can even attack when it's not my turn, so weird xD.
Update: Got to see the Eirin part, still crashes : /
A few glitches here and there (got a game over and then when I got past Mokou's section, the game automatically closed), but overall a very nice concept executed well with some great presentation (also the most stressed I have ever been to type the word "watermelon").
typing looks nice, a bit buggy but still neat. mokou fight is pretty cool especially
also crashed for me when the eirin fight started
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