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Great job, I've seen it progress from the 1st stage a few days back and now really awesome.  Good sounds and music are new it seems, great job.

Added a word-lookup wild-card.  A good way to see if your word is/will be valid and also a test to see what words are out there matching a wild-card.

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cab  cad  cam  can  cap  car  cat  caw  cay  cee  cel  cep  chi  cig  cis  cob  cod  cog  col  con  coo  cop  cor  cos  cot  cow  cox  coy  coz  cru  cry  cub  cud  cue  cum  cup  cur  cut  cwm  

It's a little quiet here, but I've been commenting on progress in the community channel.  Here's a link to a lot more information about the progress on this submission!

https://itch.io/jam/game-off-2025/topic/5534393/we-all-value-english-scrabble-w-a-v-e-s-

I just saw your surfing game video, looks like it would be great fun, I'm looking forward to trying it out.  Send/post the link so we can give it a try before the jam ends perhaps.  I've been a hobbyist for a long time, but only recently started making game jam games.  I've been going strong for the past several months.  Here's my link to all the recent jams I participated in: ( 7 jams in all ):

https://lostwords.itch.io/

Lol, Nice to see that you (like me) took a regular game and WAVE themed it up.  I had a player comment on my game:

"I feel like you added waves to the main game and called it wave themed... Good game tho."

Here's my game link, downloading and trying your game here in a few minutes. https://itch.io/jam/game-off-2025/rate/4006867 

By the way, please remember to actually submit yours to the game jam.  I don't see the "Submission to Game Off 2025" link.

One more WAVE theme that helps make the scrabble game a WAVE game!

If you create any of these words, they give you bonus points -- because these words are WAVE themed!

ABYSS AMPLITUDE BAY BLUE BREAKER BRINE CASCADE COASTLINE CORAL CREST CURRENT CURL CYCLONE DEEP DRIFT DRIFTWOOD EBB ECHO EMOTION FLOOD FLOW FLUCTUATE FLUCTUATION FLUID FOAM FREQUENCY FROTH GLIDE GUST HORIZON HUM INTERFERENCE KELP LAGOON MAELSTROM MEANDER MODULATION MONSOON MOMENTUM MOVEMENT OCEAN OSCILLATE OSCILLATION PEARL PHASE PROPAGATION PULSE RADIATION REEF RESONANCE RIPPLE ROLL SALT SEA SHELL SIGNAL SLIDE SPECTRUM SPLASH SPLASHDOWN STORM STATIC SURF SURGE SWAY SWEEP SWELL TEMPEST TIDAL TIDE TONE TREND TROUGH TRANSMISSION TRANSMIT TSUNAMI UNDULATE VIBE VIBRATION WASH WAVE WAVELENGTH WAVY WHIRLPOOL

'Rad, thanks dude!'

Oh, and the Gravity Wave power allows you to use non-scrabble directions to spell words from Bottom-to-Top or Right-to-Left!

There is also the ability to choose either or all, English, Spanish or German dictionaries.

I hope the game is 'wave-worthy' and I'm 'stoked' to hear about any other comments or bug fixes! 

Glad you had a chance to ride my WAVES game!  lol

Well, kind of... but as you see, I also tried to heavily theme the game around WAVES as much as possible.

I wanted to make this scrabble game, and didn't have any pure wave game ideas ( tower defense, surfing,...), so instead I've been spending almost every day creating and adding my own WAVES!

(W)e (A)ll (V)alue (E)nglish (S)crabble

PowerUps (special tiles)
CRIME WAVE ( allows you to get a letter from the board and replace it for a letter on your rack )
SHOCK WAVE ( allows you to place letters on the board over existing letters )
BRAIN WAVE ( allows you to swap a letter in your rack for a random letter from your sack )

WAVE modes
RadiO wave ( words must start with consonant and end with vowel )
SounD wave ( words must start with a consonant and end with a consonant )
ElectromagnetiC ( words must start with a vowel and end with a consonant )
EnergY ( words must start with a vowel and end with a vowel )

High Tide
During regular timed cycles (Minutes of the Hour), if waves are on the screen you can place floating words.

  0-1   5-10   25-35   45-50   50-54

I also added the ability to create your own private room board.  Also, in the regular rooms, when multiple people are in the same room, they are playing in real-time with each other.  I'm also recording all the words found for possible playback so someone can spectate the activity.  

Wow, Did even more today.  Seems like every days I get a new idea and add something new.  Also fixed an issue where when placing a word that is valid back forward and backwards, it would charge you a gravity wave credit.  I think it's fixed now, so when you find a word ( like TON or NOT ), you won't get charged the gravity wave.

(( I also, added a keep alive so it might stay awake when playing/viewing on Amazon Fire TV and other smart tv internet browsers ))

(( I also added buttons to control the zoom, for use on smart TV's perhaps ))

https://itch.io/jam/game-off-2025/rate/4006867

I just added ability for your own private game/room.  Enjoy!

Yes, I'll probably use electron for an off line game too.  My current submission is multiplayer so it relies on web for connection to my self-hosted backend server that handles the games.  I just added private game rooms to my submission by the way,

https://itch.io/jam/game-off-2025/rate/4006867

Today I quickly added a few sound effects.  You can turn these ON/OFF as desired.  The sounds (although few) are enabled by default. 

There is also the ability to play from a choice of two background sounds.  Let me know if I should add more, give it a try!  The sound-effects came from a free itch asset library that should not be redistributed.  The credits.txt file lists all resources, and credits for your reference.

https://lostwords.itch.io/scrabblescramble

(( Do not redistribute the .wav files included, they are for this game only.  ))

https://ci.itch.io/400-sounds-pack

(By the way, I looked up electron and will use it in the future as well -- instead of just itch.io and self hosting on my own)

Feel free to check out a lot of my itch submissions.  I've been going strong for the past 5 jams, the code I have for this one is a mess, but other game submissions of mine actually have versions of 'level creators' where you can provide your own data/levels.  There's a lot to see at 
https://lostwords.itch.io ..

Nice to see the GitHub repo in the submission.  I'll probably download it and give myself unlimited life and play a bunch.  I looked at the source already and look forward to seeing how 'electron' works as a game library.  Take care,

I guess I found the link by clicking your itch account.  Trying it now.  https://alexonthemoon.itch.io/zero-waves-remains

It plays very smoothly, however, I'm not very good at mouse to aim/shoot and WASD to move.   I like how you have segregated the zones and advance to additional waves of enemies.

Wow, I died pretty quick --    A lot of clicking but still wasn't enough for me to last very long.  On my second try I realized I could also WASD move, so that helped!

Here's my link, I'm trying yours as I type! -- Interested in seeing what you think about my 2 weeks of solid effort!

https://itch.io/jam/game-off-2025/rate/4006867

Here's my link, send me your game link and I can play test some -- interested in seeing what you think about my 2 weeks of solid effort!

https://itch.io/jam/game-off-2025/rate/4006867

Well, I now added the option to allow Spanish and/or German words as well as English.

There is also the ability to refresh the current wave and set all players in the wave at a zero score starting point as a way to compete with others in real-time.  The ability to 'challenge' is only offered in the settings menu after anyone has been playing for several minutes.  ( Newly entered room players can't just join a room and reset progress/challenge - only the ones that have been in the room the longest are able to invoke the room challenge ).  I hope to create some instructions and perhaps a video regarding game-play.  Let me know what you think.

https://itch.io/jam/game-off-2025/rate/4006867

..... I have yet another idea to add.  Probably tomorrow I'll add a leaderboard and scoring system where you compete for points within the game wave (game room) you are playing in. This is a real time multiplayer game...when you play, you choose wave 1 to 10, where each wave is a specific game board and essentially a room with other players who make words simultaneously on a shared game board.

2 weeks down, just over 2 weeks to go!

I can't stop adding things!!! -- Today I added ability to follow a player that is in your same room.  Your screen will center that target player on your screen as they play and make words. You can also set it to follow yourself or no following.  This might be a simple way to spectate a game.  But then again, you need players to be watching.

Give the game a try.. you can even create a custom list of your own bonus words, then copy and paste that URL to a friend and play together.

https://itch.io/jam/game-off-2025/rate/4006867

NOTES for other developers:

Mobile-Friendly, and Fire TV! Hello all, I've created a wave themed multiplayer scrabble game for this jam. I've made it responsive so it works desktop and mobile, but here's some extra special info for others looking to make something 'mobile' friendly.

If you don't select (mobile friendly) on the Itch.io configuration page, your mobile friendly/responsive game might work well also on Amazon Fire TV. Of course you'll need to be selective about your user interaction, generally just mouse move and click should work directly. Obviously there may not be a keyboard and click and drag could be difficult just using the fire TV remote control.

When the mobile friendly item is checked on itch.io, at least on my fire TV, the screen resolution attempts to change automatically making it un-usable.

We All Value English Scrabble ( W A V E S )

Play testing ready - play in browser, mobile phone or even Amazon FIRE TV!

Play testers - There is still time for me to fix any bugs or add even more ideas - Please check it out and let me know!

Free free to check out my submission, Play in Browser on Desktop, Mobile or even Amazon FIRE TV. ( please let me know if you try it on your device and any issues, enjoy! ) https://itch.io/jam/game-off-2025/rate/4006867

The music gave a feel as if I was sitting in a ramen shop or at least had a 'ramen' ethnicity vibe.  It was a little tedious to select the menu of categories, then drag the ingredient to the bottom.  Perhaps enable the full screen button with the Itch settings because my screen layout made this otherwise difficult.   

Recipes, kind of cool and cozy - like a warm soup.  Here's a previous jam of mine where I provide cookie recipes!

https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-14/rate/3842322

One final game attempt and rating before the rating period ends.  I'm opening your game right now, hopefully you can give my submission a quick look and rating as well!  ( p.s. I'll be making ramen for real here for lunch! )

https://itch.io/jam/cozy-fall-jam-2025/rate/3983378

Mixing blue and green creates cyan color ( 21 + 7 = 28)
Mixing red and green makes yellow (115 + 7 = 122)
Mixing red and blue makes purple (115 + 21 = 136)

The three colors on the wall are RED, BLUE and GREEN.
Mixing red and blue and green (115 + 21 + 7 = 143)

https://lostwords.itch.io/lost-your-words/devlog/1098662/thank-you

https://lostwords.itch.io/lost-your-words/devlog/1098662/thank-you

https://lostwords.itch.io/lost-your-words/devlog/1098662/thank-you

https://lostwords.itch.io/lost-your-words/devlog/1098662/thank-you

https://lostwords.itch.io/lost-your-words/devlog/1098662/thank-you

https://lostwords.itch.io/lost-your-words/devlog/1098662/thank-you

I've been continually updating the game and submitted revisions before the submission period ended.   Since then I've been continuing to develop and have a latest version self-hosted.  I will update the Itch version when the voting period ends.

Please feel free to check out the latest version at: Lost Your Words

https://lostwords.itch.io/lost-your-words/devlog/1098662/thank-you

https://lostwords.itch.io/lost-your-words/devlog/1098662/thank-you

https://lostwords.itch.io/lost-your-words/devlog/1098662/thank-you

SPOILER – Category Hints

ACORN
(Like the other category options, this one is fall-themed—fitting the cozy theme of the game jam.)

In this category, each scrambled word starts with the next letter of the category name!

• A ... scrambled: [RMBEA] → answer: AMBER

• C ... scrambled: [CSIPR] → answer: CRISP

• O ...

• R ...

• N ...

SPOILER - Related words/hints for the category levels in this game...

ACORN ( The 1st Category, like the rest of the word categories to choose from, this is a fall related item/idea. )

Then, for the words that need to be unscrambled in this category...

The words in this category begin with the 1st letters of that Category Name.

A ... (first scrambled word)... [ RMBEA ]... Answer is [ AMBER ]

C... (2nd scrambled word)... [ CSIPR ]... Answer is [ CRISP ]

O...

R...

N...

Very nicely done.  The movement of the items was a little tricky at first but in the end these room by room puzzles were a great joy to attempt to solve.  Cozy vibes and full story meets the theme well.  I am still planning on creating my own version of an escape room game, and this type of puzzler, look and feel would be something to be proud of. Subtle, adequately easy/difficult, fits the theme and nice game look and feel.

Thanks for your comments and approval of the game.  

I've been continually updating this simple game but the Itch version can't be updated until the Jam voting ends.

The latest version is here for you to try:  Lost-Your-Words

In the latest version (and the version that will be published to itch as soon as the rating period ends), there is the ability to add your own word to unscramble and to share it in a link to someone else.  There is also the chance that other sets of words (even in different languages) can be contributed to from the community.  The link above is my self hosted version that you can try and see the latest improvements.  These improvements come from having more time available to put towards it as well as encouragement and suggestions from another Itch user that reached out to share their ideas.  thanks again.