Wordskill by Madball
"Wordskill" can be "Word skill" or "Words kill".
Did your forget your most conventional weapon? Use words to praise and insult other people! Combine them into sentences, and sentences into various forms: plain text, political speech, poem...
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Please tell if you had difficulties understanding the game.
Here is some more help about the gameplay in case the in-game tutorial isn't enough:
*The sentence consists of a beginning: "You are" or "Your something is", a middle part "adjective", "adjective and adjective" or "as adjective as noun" and an exclamation point.
*"Total insult" at the bottom means that you get points for insulting and lose them for praising, "Total praise" means the opposite.
*If you use both praising and insulting in one sentence, you lose 2 points, but your total score gets increased, not depending on whether you need to insult or praise.
*If you use a noun, you get an extra point by default. If it's fitting, you get one more point.
*If you use two similar adjectives in a sentence, it counts as a tautology and you lose 2 points.
(Source via right-click)
Did your forget your most conventional weapon? Use words to praise and insult other people! Combine them into sentences, and sentences into various forms: plain text, political speech, poem...
If pixels look messed up and window is smaller than 640x480, adjust you browser's zoom.
Please tell if you had difficulties understanding the game.
Here is some more help about the gameplay in case the in-game tutorial isn't enough:
*The sentence consists of a beginning: "You are" or "Your something is", a middle part "adjective", "adjective and adjective" or "as adjective as noun" and an exclamation point.
*"Total insult" at the bottom means that you get points for insulting and lose them for praising, "Total praise" means the opposite.
*If you use both praising and insulting in one sentence, you lose 2 points, but your total score gets increased, not depending on whether you need to insult or praise.
*If you use a noun, you get an extra point by default. If it's fitting, you get one more point.
*If you use two similar adjectives in a sentence, it counts as a tautology and you lose 2 points.
(Source via right-click)
| Web | http://www.phyard.com/design/Madball/39 |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-32/?action=preview&uid=8370 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 71% | 3 |
| Overall | 3.47 | 281 |
| Fun | 3.19 | 425 |
| Graphics | 2.79 | 713 |
| Humor | 3.86 | 68 |
| Innovation | 4.03 | 51 |
| Mood | 3.22 | 314 |
| Theme | 3.70 | 266 |
And the theme was well implemented.
My wish for post-compo is a two player game :).
If this game had audio, I'd be rolling even more on the ground! XD Great idea!
You should make the speech balloon a selectable text field so people can copy their insults and paste them down here as comments!