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Connected Words by hypp

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made by hypp for LD30 (COMPO)
Connected Words
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If you play the game, please post your score!

Instructions
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Connect the world of ASCII with the world of REGEX.

Use the mouse to connect the falling red words with the correct green regular expression. You might want to learn regular expressions first. See http://perldoc.perl.org/perlrequick.html

The game starts immediately when the page has loaded,
including the music. You might want to turn the volume down.
To restart the game, just reload the page.

Tested on OSX in Safari 7.0, Firefox 31.0 and Chrome 36.0
Tested on Windows in Internet Explorer 11 (looks ugly!), Firefox 31.0 and Chrome 36.0

Credits
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The game was made using:
- CoffeeScript
- PhysicsJS
- Buzz
- Reason
- Audacity
- rAF.js
- domready
Web http://kompetensum.com/ld30/
Source https://github.com/hypp/ld_30_Connected_Worlds
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/?action=preview&uid=14403

Ratings

Coolness 49% 1204
Overall 3.06 709
Audio 3.96 27
Fun 2.84 739
Graphics 2.33 1011
Humor 3.88 29
Innovation 3.70 176
Mood 2.77 745
Theme 3.13 650

Feedback

Rozaxe
24. Aug 2014 · 21:29 UTC
Quite fun !
Concept and music are great !
Game engine has some issues... (I had trouble to drag \ element)

PS : Thanks to you I needed to revise my regexp x]
Elforama
25. Aug 2014 · 03:12 UTC
Lol, I'm loving the voice. Super hard though, I was just guessing...
PaperBlurt
25. Aug 2014 · 09:59 UTC
Aww word play "words" "worlds".

To "code-like" for me to get anything.
But fun idea.
Njord
25. Aug 2014 · 14:10 UTC
Love the music, love the voice. Playing the game seems to require a certain knowledge I don't have though !
uvwar
25. Aug 2014 · 17:21 UTC
No idea whats happening, but the voice clips and music made up for it!
foolmoron
25. Aug 2014 · 17:21 UTC
Cool idea. The voice is hilarious. Collision detection with the mouse felt a bit inaccurate though.
jpverkamp
25. Aug 2014 · 17:23 UTC
That is just bizarre. I love the idea of playing with regular expressions like that. I think that it could probably start a little slower and then maybe speed up and it got a little hard to keep going once most of the words were upside down. Also, I'm amused by the wordplay on the theme, although I'll still have to rate lower for that. Audio is awesome.
jpmit
25. Aug 2014 · 17:24 UTC
Original and fun. Cool sound effects and music. Good job all round.

I need to learn regex.
Capitals
25. Aug 2014 · 17:34 UTC
I like the play on words more than I liked the game. I did like the play on words quite a lot! The big drawback is that the idea has quite a niche market.
awesomeusername
25. Aug 2014 · 17:56 UTC
I found this educational, which is awesome.

However, I had a lot of problems trying to click on the right word (it tended to give me a nearby word even though I clicked on the word itself), and I think some of the strings satisfy multiple expressions (though I don't know Regex very well so I could be wrong).
lightsoda
25. Aug 2014 · 21:13 UTC
Had to brush up on my regexp, my best was 1024.

When the words start piling up the mouse picking gets a bit wonky.
BillToWin
26. Aug 2014 · 00:27 UTC
Great music and voice work. Original interpretation of the theme. Good stuff.
Tommislav
26. Aug 2014 · 10:24 UTC
Yay, edutainment! One thing is clear: I suck at regex. Another thing that's clear is that when I start reading up on it more proper I will definetly come back to this game to exercise! I'm also a big fan of using your own recorded samplings =D
Jupiter_Hadley
27. Aug 2014 · 20:47 UTC
Interesting game. I included it in part 10 of my Ludum Dare 30 compilation video series :) http://youtu.be/KmqpyEAAVGM
Two Scoop Games
28. Aug 2014 · 04:02 UTC
Interesting but definitely not playable for a non-programmer.
ponk
28. Aug 2014 · 17:15 UTC
That's a cool game to learn regular expressions!
Great and hilarious audio
nilstastic
28. Aug 2014 · 20:19 UTC
Pros: Very innovative!
Cons: A bit to easy, word and digit matching was always a success.
Macocco
28. Aug 2014 · 20:30 UTC
Interesting take on the theme (a typo?). Don't understand why I always have a negative score in the end though. Audio was funny!
ambi
29. Aug 2014 · 17:34 UTC
I think this is a really good concept. The music and the audio is good. I hope you make a post-compo entry that has more variation in the regexes. This could be a fun tool to practice my stagnating regex skills.
badlydrawnrod
30. Aug 2014 · 08:43 UTC
I like how the premise of this game is a play on worl?ds. I thought this game w.s \w+ \w+ and rather \w+ed it. \w+ job!
mrexcessive
31. Aug 2014 · 18:54 UTC
Hi there. Great idea. Got 310 first try... more next, but clicked away. Is frustrating that once you start dragging a link, if the source word gets knocked by incoming words, then the link breaks. Might also be nice if they flipped to shop word right way up - because rotating words in your head is not really part of Regex understanding - though it feels like that sometimes! Good and unusual job!
yodamaster
02. Sep 2014 · 11:21 UTC
Looks interesting. Mouse position somehow not correctly calculated? I need to learn a programming-language to play the game? Maybe you can also include different themes, could be used as nice learning game for children, or vocabulary etc.