TINY WORlDS by machinas
Made by Klomer and Machinas!
We more or less stuck to compo rules, but there were two of us, so I guess we're jamming!!
A white hole has opened up and is threatening to explode your planets by enlarging them as they get closer to the center of the singularity. Spell words to use your shrink ray so that they can get small enough to use your teleporter to pull these tiny worlds to safety!
PROTIPS:
* enter key submits, space clears words
* mispell a word to get new letters!
* dictionary only goes to 7 letter words. don't be too awesome, please.
Post Compo Edition Improvements:
* add support for 1, 2, and 8 letter words
* make backspace clear the last entered letter
* pull the screen edge repulsion further down from the top
* decrease score font size
* add a click response delay to the dialogs so they can't be closed accidentally
* moved the white hole down a bit
* experimenting with keyboard input for letters. let us know what you think. better? worse?
We more or less stuck to compo rules, but there were two of us, so I guess we're jamming!!
A white hole has opened up and is threatening to explode your planets by enlarging them as they get closer to the center of the singularity. Spell words to use your shrink ray so that they can get small enough to use your teleporter to pull these tiny worlds to safety!
PROTIPS:
* enter key submits, space clears words
* mispell a word to get new letters!
* dictionary only goes to 7 letter words. don't be too awesome, please.
Post Compo Edition Improvements:
* add support for 1, 2, and 8 letter words
* make backspace clear the last entered letter
* pull the screen edge repulsion further down from the top
* decrease score font size
* add a click response delay to the dialogs so they can't be closed accidentally
* moved the white hole down a bit
* experimenting with keyboard input for letters. let us know what you think. better? worse?
Ratings
| Coolness | 73% | 3 |
| Overall(Jam) | 3.35 | 75 |
| Audio(Jam) | 2.47 | 152 |
| Fun(Jam) | 3.20 | 62 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 2.63 | 193 |
| Humor(Jam) | 1.90 | 181 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 3.55 | 48 |
| Mood(Jam) | 2.65 | 150 |
| Theme(Jam) | 3.18 | 94 |
@j_peeba: yeah. i have trouble with U's and Vs in this font particularly. It's all just library default font blown up 4x, hehe.
I just sucked at it :P
I couldn't think of words that would work with the letters I had, so I kept panicing, then the planets started jiggling, then I really started to panic, then I froze, and then I lost. I tried a few rounds and gave up, but well done game!
You'd be surprised how much better you can get with a bit of practice though!
Remember that planets in the middle grow waaaay faster then ones on the outside!
One annoyance that could easily be fixed is that planets near the top are obscured by the HUD -- you should limit their position so they are always below the words of the HUD.
Cheers!
I still liked it though, although I wish I had more time to look at the letters and maybe even decide which planets I should try and use to either stop from exploding or make disappear. I found the game too fast, I just tried to make whatever word I could as fast as a could.
Maybe a slower difficulty curve would be better?
Although, for a competition game that most people are only going to play for a few minutes, this difficulty is pretty good because the games go fast.