Well done on your first game jam!
The game has good look and feel to it.
The fact that it runs is good enough for a first jam (once again, we had about a 66% dropout rate this year); but the polished feel is extra nice.
:)
The main thing I would like to see is a different/bigger dictionary.
The words "rip" and "I" were not in there.
I got "tram"; but (and this is a challenge with all these types of word games) once I stop trusting the dictionary the game changes to "what's the bigger word that I think the dictionary will *actually* have?" .
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Thanks so much for playing, and for your feedback - it's massively appreciated!
Yeah, it was a bit of a mad dash to get something functional for submission, so I'm quite pleased with the end result. That said, there's definitely a few areas I want to tighten up on, and the dictionary is one of the bigger areas in that respect! I'll be looking into what's causing this particular issue and fixing it for the next release, so I really appreciate the feedback here to put it on my radar! I think I'll be adding a way for the player to open the game's dictionary for reference, so hopefully that'll address that concern you've noted around "what words will it actually have"
Thanks so much for the feedback, really means a lot!
Yeah, I think I'll probably add a more 'friendly' mode where players can essentially look at the dictionary at any time (the clock will still continue to count down though), and I'll probably add it as a 'cheat' option in Survival mode as well - my solution for the existing game modes is at the end of each round we'll have a little interstitial option to go to 'Lexicon Junction' where the game will show definitions for each word to demonstrate they are legal and valid.