Post by Foxolotl713 in Wordpetition PLAYTEST comments

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Played the game for a little bit and it is not bad, obviously shops etc are still missing but i like the idea. How many different special words are there currently? I think i found maybe 10 but i know that more exist via screenshots and hints. I would love to have a dictionary which lists special words that you found with their effects and ones that you havent found as ???. Right now it feels a little overwhelming to remember and build all words.

One issue i noticed is that the next level animation briefly pops up when you game over, which i think is unintended.

As a german, i would love to see a localisation as i dont recognize many words that score and could maybe help with that.

One last thing: How does the scoring work? Does each letter have its own score which gets added together or is the value set for each word?

happyholo18 days ago(+1)

There’s 42 special words in the playtest currently! I don’t want to spoil them all since I want people to discover them on their own. I’ll definitely be adding in the dictionary though!

I just uploaded a new version of the playtest that fixes the weird animation glitch. The book was in front of the game over screen due to a weird error I made with the render order of it. The book was way too high up.

The game also doesn’t move forward if all players lose now, so the book will never show up if the game isn’t being played.

Each letter has its own score which gets added together. I should probably communicate that in-game somewhere, I just thought that it wasn’t as important as everything else.

Foxolotl71316 days ago (1 edit) (+1)

Not sure whether the display beyond 5 digits is just broken or the calculations too. dont think i was scoring that much, even though pair+pear is quite good. (got it to +150 fire and +200 points) Maybe a win screen would be nice.

Can you not use a word twice in the same run? if that is the case, i would love a list of used words.

happyholo16 days ago(+1)

Oops, I think the display broke because the text isn’t resized. The calculations should be the same as the target score shown on the page.

I replaced the auto-resizing text I had in the current game with a better third-party one, the bug should be fixed now.

The word in the score preview (before the 10 x 3.24) will turn red when you’re about to play a used word. I’ll make it more clear in-game by making it say (USED) before the word, while still turning red.

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