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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #62 | 4.030 | 4.030 |
| Sound | #170 | 3.455 | 3.455 |
| Topic | #254 | 3.576 | 3.576 |
| WOWIE! | #274 | 3.242 | 3.242 |
| Fun | #363 | 3.182 | 3.182 |
| Visuals | #495 | 2.970 | 2.970 |
| Simplicity | #583 | 3.182 | 3.182 |
Ranked from 33 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Music Source
I used freesound, background track: https://freesound.org/people/wi-photos/sounds/521061/
Credits
Ruben Guis
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Very fun! the UI is annoying on the right since you can't see bits, also sometimes when you die you die again automatically to cursers when you spawn, if when you spawn you'll be immune for some seconds or when you spawn you push nearby curses away from spawn. but very fun(:
Thanks for playing and for the feedback!
I got this immunity at respawn idea from a few others as well, and I think it is a really good one!
I will definitely implement this in the next update!
I'm quite terrible with UI, this is the first game in which I actually used it (and the first almost finished one).
I have to look into this a bit more. Then I can hopefully spawn the bits clearly in front of the UI.
I want to start off by saying I very much enjoyed this game :)
But it could be better:
Speedrun, on the other hand, was awesome!
My tactic was to get all the letters close to "WOWIE" without getting any correct or getting hurt.
This made sure that there were only 2 cursors at that time.
I would have "XPXHD".
Then I would a char once to it's correct letter, die, change another char once, die and so forth to end up with "WOWIE".
I didn't collect any bits for revealing chars.
I could have done better but I'd spent enough time already :)
I had a lot of fun beating your personal best :D
After posting my comment, I thought I'd try it one last time and got less than 1 minute!
Thanks a lot for your detailed feedback!
I fully agree there are lots of things that still can be improved!
In the next update, I will add M as a menu button.
I started developing for Windows and did not take into account that ESC would close the full screen in webGL.
Even when I changed to webGL, I did not think about it. So many thanks for pointing this out!
I should have made a tutorial for the movement. Unfortunately, I did not have the time to do this. I will add this in a future update.
Keeping jumping on a character to change it in a certain direction is perfectly fine!
The random mode is for the more casual players. The idea is to get the first few characters using the bits and then guess the rest of the word.
I personally also like the speedrun better.
You found a good tactic that I did not think of myself!
Impressive scores! As far as I know of you hold the fastest time!
A friend of mine managed to do 1:03, now I should tell him his record is broken ;)
Really impressive you could do it within 1 minute!
It was a little confusing what I needed to do, interesting idea of cracking the password. I liked the sound when you landed on a letter and that you could collect bits to brute force it as well as the stats on how many combinations are left. The mouse buttons were hard to dodge and it was tough to stay on the letters so I died a lot but that seemed to be how you checked if a password worked?
Exactly! When you died the last touched letter is checked and turns red if it's wrong and green if it's correct. It's actually quite hard to survive and needs a bit of practicing with the controls. However dying is not a bad thing in this game.
I'm sorry, I should have made a tutorial thad explained the controls. Unfortunately, I did not have the time to do this. By combining jumping and dashing, where you get a new jump after each dash, you should be able to survive a lot longer. However the correct letters won't be checked if you don't die, so unless you want to collect 40 bits without dying, which is really hard if possible, you have to die anyways.
Thanks a lot for playing and for your feedback!
I see, pretty cool :). Looked again and saw the 'how to play' part, neat way to implement that, but I probably should have read that the first time lol.
No worries, I should have made a tutorial level that explained the controls :p
The theme was nicely implemented, and I absolutely loved the clicking sounds. Well done.
A few points of critique though: If you die, the trail effect leads from the point where you died to the respawn point, giving more a sense of teleporting. And while mapping out a possibility space is a nice example of "failure is progress", this possibility space is a bit big for my taste. After a while it becomes tedious. Doing it with numbers or fewer letters would probably have been more fun (but I understand that you wanted "wowie" to fit in there). Also the placement of the cursors and bits was a bit annoying. The cursors would sometimes float right in the respaw area, immobilizing you for a while. And most of the bits spawn at relatively inaccessible places (even with a double dash). And one final nitpick: usually windows uses the white cursor per default ; )
Still those are just points that would improve an already interesting game (in my opinion at least).
Thanks a lot for your detailed feedback!
I noticed this effect with the trail when you die. I tried to disable the trail when you die and then re-enable it when you spawn, but somehow this didn't work. Then I decided not to spend more time on it since time was already running out. I will have a look at this after the rating period again.
For the cursors in the respawn area, someone else came up with a really nice solution that I want to implement. After you die you will be invincible for a short amount of time to get away from all the cursors.
I cheated a bit for the possibility space. There are more than 11 million words you can make with 5 letters. But since you can check each character individually, the maximum number of checks that is really needed is just 5*26 = 130 possibilities. However, 11 million sounds much more interesting than 130. Therefore, the number I put on the UI is the number of words that can be made by the still unchecked characters.
After each dash, you get a new jump. This will help you to reach all places on the screen. For maximal distance:
Jump-jump-dash-jump-dash-jump
But I get this mechanic is not entirely clear, since I did not have time to implement a nice tutorial level.
After a bit of practising with the mechanics, any word can be made within a few minutes. There is a speedrun mode, in which you have to make the word "WOWIE". I was able to do this in 1 minute in just 1 attempt.
This a bit unfair, since I know exactly what I can do. I can imagine that it will already take more time than this to get the hang of the mechanics, without a tutorial. So after the rating period is over I will try to add a tutorial level.
For the cursor color, I had them white first, but I wanted to emphasise more that the cursors are the enemy.
When I made them red is was really ugly, I ended up doing something that was in between ;)
Great original concept and use of the theme :D The controls are perfect and its fun to dodge cursors :d The only negative thing i can say is the dash sound effect doesnt fit perfectly its distracting :/ Other than that i had fun with this one great idea great execution well done :D
Thanks for the feedback and for playing!
I will have another look at the dash sound effect after the rating period, I didn't noticed this myself before.
So thanks for pointing this out to me!