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I am Gonna Smack You With My Words! by Marcos Rodrigues

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made by Marcos Rodrigues for LD32 (COMPO)
You're a prosecutor and your job is to annihilate those criminals (I mean, lock 'em up)! Use your rhetoric (or at least your knowledge about the English language) and try to survive as long as you can!

CONTROLS:
- a-z: type letter
- backspace: delete letter
- enter: fire word
- esc: reset current word
- space: pause game

WARNING: To verify the existence of the words I've used the /usr/share/dict/words file, present on Unix systems, alongside with some preprocessing. If it happens that some word you used is not recognized (or one that shouldn't be was recognized), tell me about it in the comments session! Thank you for your help!

I also apologize for the repetitive music, I had completely forgotten that I couldn't use external assets for entering the Compo, so I improvised a sample. I'm just a programmer, so design and music are not my strong points! :(

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Author: Marcos Felipe Pimenta Rodrigues
Language: JavaScript
Code editor: vim
Game engine: Phaser (http://phaser.io/)
Graphic editor: GraphicsGale (http://www.humanbalance.net/gale/us/)
SFX editor: Bfrx (http://www.bfxr.net/)
Music editor: Bosca Ceoil (https://github.com/TerryCavanagh/boscaceoil/)

Special thanks to my girlfriend, Carol Durandet, for all the support and for testing this game!
Web http://www.oddlyfunctional.com/LudumDare32/index.html
Source https://github.com/oddlyfunctional/LudumDare32
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-32/?action=preview&uid=16988

Ratings

Coolness 75% 2
Overall 3.49 273
Audio 2.90 439
Fun 3.74 109
Graphics 2.79 713
Humor 3.00 397
Innovation 3.49 289
Mood 2.97 514
Theme 4.12 58

Feedback

Lyxilion
21. Apr 2015 路 09:35 UTC
I'm french soit's realy hard for me to play this game but it's nice realy !
馃帳 Marcos Rodrigues
22. Apr 2015 路 03:19 UTC
I get it, I myself am brazilian. If you want to, you can get the source code and replace the list of words for a french one! :)
Here a list of different languages for the wordlist package: http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/wordlist
ruerob
22. Apr 2015 路 09:54 UTC
Really nice entry! I've reached 76! I'm German. It was really fun to play! Great work!
garygreen
23. Apr 2015 路 20:19 UTC
That was original. :-) Clever idea. I really liked the graphic style too.
jwin
24. Apr 2015 路 23:13 UTC
Very interesting idea, I like it!
zatyka
24. Apr 2015 路 23:16 UTC
Unique idea, and well executed. Although I played it for a while, it stopped being fun after about 2 minutes. However, that may have had to do with me getting "X" more than any other letter.
mildmojo
24. Apr 2015 路 23:22 UTC
Cool typing game! I always struggle with these games that make me think up words on the fly. =)

The sound got the job done. The impact sounds were good, but the music was pretty repetitive.

I liked how the word display highlighted correct vs. incorrect words (though I found a few it doesn't know). Letting players skip a hard letter was nice, too. And the character art was nice. I liked the way the protagonist flapped his jaw when he was speaking the attacks.
diiq
25. Apr 2015 路 00:06 UTC
Nice! Just fast enough to feel urgent, but still very playable.

I couldn't figure out what I had to do to win the bonus rounds, so my recent word list got long.

I think it would be fun to have even more restrictions on the word; starting and ending letter, maybe, or extra points for using specific letters within the word.
Photon
25. Apr 2015 路 01:19 UTC
Pretty funny! Started to get real crazy there near the end. I mean, I should know plenty of words from the English language, right? Well executed concept done with a nice touch of humor.
drludos
25. Apr 2015 路 02:13 UTC
Nice entry! I like the core idea: it's original and well executed! :) The music is entertaining too, congrats!
cdgugler
25. Apr 2015 路 14:28 UTC
Fun typing game! I like that you are forced into the first letter, makes it more challenging.
sanojian
30. Apr 2015 路 17:03 UTC
Very nice game. I felt like I was getting a lot of Q, Z, X, and Y. Quite a challenge.
LandoSystems
02. May 2015 路 01:31 UTC
Fun game! My high score was 153. It was a little tricky since some words weren't in the dictionary and it got really challenging a couple levels in, but its a neat idea that could be expanded upon to make a more substantial game.

Great work!
Huo-cuo
02. May 2015 路 09:05 UTC
Great idea matching the theme perfectly.
Geckoo1337
04. May 2015 路 15:51 UTC
Nice entry. It's original and well executed. Neat. Thumbs up ++
EdwardGreysky
04. May 2015 路 17:10 UTC
Cool concept well executed
Easy to get in even for a french speaker like me but hard to beat
Well done
joekinley
04. May 2015 路 18:17 UTC
Whee second typing game i played, and it was awesome aswell. I have fun with those games, and it was well done Good job
justthestudio
04. May 2015 路 18:19 UTC
OMG Nice one!
justthestudio
04. May 2015 路 18:59 UTC
Really really fun and enjoyable gameplay, pretty big word database. Graphics and sound could be better, but overall experience is for 4 stars! ;)
lizard455
04. May 2015 路 19:31 UTC
Fun game! The mechanics are well executed :D
jordgubben
05. May 2015 路 19:01 UTC
A typing game that lets me pick the words? Two thumbs up!
elpaulo
05. May 2015 路 21:42 UTC
Fun ! Just think about changing the title of the web page :-)
I made mine with phaser too, yours is really well made.
MentalBlockGaming
06. May 2015 路 12:53 UTC
Nice little game! I play word games a lot. The difficulty was kinda slow in my opinion - I'd have liked it to ramp up a bit more quickly. Maybe by making enemies quicker and more threatening and implementing a lives system, it would have helped keep things more interesting. I found the letter limit only restricting for the first two levels or so, then it was a non-issue. It was kinda repetitive until I realised that there were special bonuses for getting words of a certain length - I LOVED that aspect of it. Just for readability, I may have flipped the scene so that the words you were saying would be spelt forwards and not backwards. I didn't really get the theming behind the game, but I guess it worked - maybe a librarian or school kid or something to do with a dictionary would have made more sense.

Good game!
KaiseanGames
06. May 2015 路 12:55 UTC
I reached 250 then I gave up, because it was a bit slow for me. So I guess a difficulty setting would be nice. However, I had a very good time playing the game. Well done!
A Flat Miner Studios
06. May 2015 路 13:53 UTC
Aaack, how many words that start with X do I know?! Really fun, found myself wracking my brain for longer words. Also, points for the title. Totally got me to click. :)
awestsecurity
06. May 2015 路 13:58 UTC
Lots of fun. I usually don't like typing games, but I really enjoyed this one.
The sound got glitchy the farther I got. I think by 150 criminals it was just crackling noise.
Arche-san
06. May 2015 路 14:12 UTC
"Kill ! Diarrhea ! Blood ! Delete ! Exterminate ! Xylophone !" Had a lot of fun with your game. Compared to other letter games, picking your own word and seeing immediately if your word is spelled correctly make this game very smooth and fun to play.
Linus123xbb
06. May 2015 路 14:17 UTC
Very cool game, and very innovative aswell! I found this very fun :)
farwyler
08. May 2015 路 06:43 UTC
very good use of the theme, highly enjoyable, great work