Can’t beat a good game of Scrabble.
This is a fun idea, but I felt like the controls were a bit clunky. Made it harder to experiment with words like I would IRL. Consider:
- Mouse control: allow the user to drag and drop tiles wherever they want on the board. Obviously only do your scoring logic when there’s a single continuous line. Maybe give the currently placed tiles a really obvious outline or subtly animate them so people can’t lose them.
- Let me reorder the tiles that are in my “hand” via drag/drop to figure out words.
- Clicking an empty tile then arrow works okay, and I’d like it as an alternate control scheme if I could then type to enter my tiles. Was my first instinct but that didn’t work.
Books are a nice substitute for Balatro’s Jokers. Having references to real books is a great idea.
Shop is perhaps a bit too cluttered with all the various types of powerups. I didn’t feel like browsing every tab after every round.
Bounties is a great idea, and the Vamp Survivors-like “powerup” option on completing one was cool.
Edit: also tough timing, YouTube gamedev man has just released something similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuXrwA9nzM8