This game was super fun!! I really enjoyed the experience! Some of my thoughts (fyi I am terrible at word games so some of my comments might just be me being bad at the game):
- The capsule art and art style caught my eye! I clicked immediately. I also love the art/ui on the itch page, it looks amazing! (Did you do both game programming and art by yourself?)
- I really enjoyed playing rocky, alphabet, adventurer!
- A lot of stuff doesn’t seem worth buying in the shop like
- 1 in 10 to spawn a dupe (less chance for vowels to spawn)
- Palindromes (seems nearly impossible and maybe not worth 20 mult, but perhaps I am just not good at the game haha). I bought the other one (anadrome?) immediately due to the same reason
- There may be some game design intention that I hadn’t fully grasped, but it would feel better for me to be able to freely remove letters from the side bag
- Really like the color palette, but I think even though it’s a 2-color palette, the third color orange could be used more to emphasize specific ui elements, like the score, otherwise a lot of the ui blends together
- The side bag UI overlays the scrolls when you have 4+ scrolls which feels slightly clunky if I want to check one of my scrolls while the bag is open
- Wish there was a way to check if the current input is valid so I can plan to save letters, otherwise if I save a letter but the input is invalid, then I saved a letter for nothing since it can’t be removed. This is also important for when the word will pass you the level, but you want to keep some vowels for the next chapter
- Sometimes a poor roll of letters that don’t contain many vowels can be potentially detrimental to the run, curious to know if there is some hidden weighting to drop more vowels if there are none
- End game scoring very satisfying when you have a ton of scrolls!
- bug(?) moneymaker keeps counting for 0 when triggered
- Overall I had a ton of fun! I played one run for around an hour! I’m sure if I spent more time on this game I could figure out some more strategies, but unfortunately I am not much of a word game person so it’s too much thinking for me and my brain is totally fried, but I can tell a ton of effort was put into this game and it was a great experience overall!!
