Wordskill by Madball

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made by Madball for LD32 (COMPO)
"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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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)

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

Feedback

morgondag
20. Apr 2015 · 10:46 UTC
Wonderful concept and use off words!
strega
20. Apr 2015 · 10:52 UTC
Interesting grammar game. I was able to get a silver metal praising my friend. I like the different scenarios. and animations.
j_peeba
20. Apr 2015 · 10:56 UTC
Neat! A very creative puzzle game and fun too. I think a system like this would be very suitable as a mechanic for an adventure game or similar.
freaknarf
20. Apr 2015 · 11:30 UTC
Nice that was fun :) Sometimes some quotes that seems like insult (to me) are unrecognized :/ (ex "You are small and stupid" ==> what ?) that's fun :)
Cherno
20. Apr 2015 · 12:44 UTC
This... this is great.
PaperBlurt
20. Apr 2015 · 12:47 UTC
Oh crap this was fresh.
And the theme was well implemented.
Catman
20. Apr 2015 · 14:09 UTC
Cool idea and cool implementation, I liked the scoring method very much!! :D
SiENcE
20. Apr 2015 · 14:11 UTC
Very original idea!

My wish for post-compo is a two player game :).
mortus
21. Apr 2015 · 08:33 UTC
Cool idea and quite a lot of nice possible phrases! Word-based games usually lack diversity but you've nailed it!
Conk
21. Apr 2015 · 11:09 UTC
Very nice puzzley game, got some pretty funny sentences together, good job! :D
Hammers
22. Apr 2015 · 12:34 UTC
Lovely stuff. I was worried it would just be randomly stringing words together, but it actually had a bit more depth to it than I thought.
Horsed
23. Apr 2015 · 09:47 UTC
I think I get the game but it's just not appealing to me. I don't see a challenging mechanic. The graphics are sweet though.
Fluffy Tigers in the Sky
23. Apr 2015 · 20:18 UTC
This game was a lot of fun for me... I'm definitely gonna tell my friends about this ;)
yuigoto
25. Apr 2015 · 02:00 UTC
The mechanics are quite interesting! The sentence builder, scoring (sarcasm! /o/) and the sentences itself are really fun!

If this game had audio, I'd be rolling even more on the ground! XD Great idea!
Blobo
25. Apr 2015 · 02:11 UTC
Great game! my insults were stupid, yet hilarious. i love the bachgrounds too.
Pietro Ferrantelli
25. Apr 2015 · 19:30 UTC
Haha ! That's fun and hilarious :D Loved your interpretation of the theme and its execution. Nice job !
steboots
26. Apr 2015 · 20:38 UTC
All right, just threw out some burns, nice
thaaks
30. Apr 2015 · 16:30 UTC
Great idea to harm or praise people using words in a game! Good reflection of real life!
SimianLogic
30. Apr 2015 · 19:10 UTC
Structurally it's pretty interesting but it needs a LOT more grammar units to make it feel less repetitive.

You should make the speech balloon a selectable text field so people can copy their insults and paste them down here as comments!
iceburg7
01. May 2015 · 19:13 UTC
This was great! The engine is smart enough that combining words is a lot of fun!
eddynardo
04. May 2015 · 19:34 UTC
Very nice job with the phrace mechanics!I really liked how the game didnt let you chose whatever word you want.Really innovative idea.
Marcos Rodrigues
05. May 2015 · 18:04 UTC
I'm LMFAO! Excellent job, loved it, 5 stars! The options available to the player and the feedback to his/her actions is perfect, there's nothing to add. I'm curious about the score engine, which data structure did you use to represent the connections between different words/sentences? I'm specially curious about the sarcasm mechanic! :)
crazya02
06. May 2015 · 13:08 UTC
Fun concept! I'd love to see a competitive mode in a post-compo version.
01101101
06. May 2015 · 15:45 UTC
Cool concept, reminded me of the Monkey Island insults battles ^^ It was not easy though, but it's all right.