(S)Word Forge by Persijn

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made by Persijn for LD 41 (COMPO)

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Ever wanted to create your own weapons? Not a fan of ores and bars? I got the thing for you, craft your weapons using WORDS. Yep just words.

Update 1_1 Removed "fine-tuned" added "fine tuned"

Ratings

Overall 628th 2.808⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Fun 659th 2.442⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 494th 3.058⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Theme 515th 3.192⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 191th 3.615⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Humor 448th 2.326⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Mood 524th 2.652⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Given 33🗳️ 18🗨️

Feedback

Schuster
23. Apr 2018 · 12:03 UTC
Nice typing game, I really like that the modifiers add a bit of variety to the weapon names in addition to making the weapon take longer to 'craft'
Zarkonnen
23. Apr 2018 · 12:07 UTC
I really like the idea of mapping harder to spell equipment to more powerful equipment. There's a fun core of an idea here.
SMILEY_4_
23. Apr 2018 · 12:09 UTC
Interesting little game. Really like the background art
ROBOWARRIOR1982
23. Apr 2018 · 13:43 UTC
Nice pixel art !
Marchmain
23. Apr 2018 · 14:04 UTC
The way the orders stack up felt like Tetris :) -- very challenging, and I'm a fast typist!

I have seen a few typing/wordsearch + crafting games on here this weekend (great minds... :smile:). I think this could make a really cool magic/enchantment system.

I did notice in the web version that I couldn't type a hyphen, so when I got to a hyphenated word I had to stop.
🎤 Persijn
23. Apr 2018 · 17:31 UTC
@Marchmain :scream: I never got so far that i got to a hyphen. I'll check my text file. Found it "fine-tuned" :scream_cat: thats +6. I'll make a small change to fix this :smile_cat:
Ruoyu
23. Apr 2018 · 18:19 UTC
1. Cool art style!
2. The game mechanism can be further polished. Now I get bored too quickly :-p
Velocity7
24. Apr 2018 · 00:26 UTC
Art style is cool. It gets harder to type
ehtd
24. Apr 2018 · 03:38 UTC
Nice to see another jammer making a typing game!
theslate
24. Apr 2018 · 14:51 UTC
Nice! An ending of some sort would have been good.
CaptainPilot
24. Apr 2018 · 23:02 UTC
Like the art style and concept, but not sure which two genres are being combined here
🎤 Persijn
25. Apr 2018 · 13:05 UTC
@CaptainPilot I was not so sure myself, i think its a shop, crafting, management and typing. I don't know if they qualify as genres. :fox:
hatchet
25. Apr 2018 · 21:34 UTC
Very cool pixel art! :) I wish there was more variety in the things you type/do, and perhaps some goal you're working towards, even if it's just hinted.
sndr
25. Apr 2018 · 22:36 UTC
That was fun! Got to gold 80 and words stopped appearing. Not sure if that means I lost because the list on the right was full? :P Cool stuff for sure!
🎤 Persijn
25. Apr 2018 · 23:19 UTC
@sndr Could be you complete the game then XD I did not have time to sett an end to the game. In the current build it should never end so i think that's a bug :cry:
sndr
25. Apr 2018 · 23:45 UTC
@persjin Oooh, I beat it then. Yay! :)
Don't worry about it though. My winning/end screen is also a bit dodgy. xD I had to quickly work on it on the last 50 minutes or so before the end of the compo.
Shellfish Games
27. Apr 2018 · 11:35 UTC
Original concept (good title as well) and nice pixel art. I'd say yes, it qualifies as a combination of incompatible genres.

I had some problems with the game repeatedly not noticing characters, so with every second word or so I ran into typo problems, which was a bit frustrating as I had to force myself to type slowly to avoid this. As nobody else seems to be mentioning this it might be related to I don't know what, my system or browser maybe (Windows 7, Firefox 59 currently).
🎤 Persijn
28. Apr 2018 · 18:01 UTC
Thanks for the feedback @Shellfish-games. I noticed that bug myself, during testing. I think i know why that bug happens, but I'll wait until after the results before i work any more on the game.
vfqd
30. Apr 2018 · 12:33 UTC
Cool concept - I also noticed the missing characters (if it helps I'm running chrome on OSX).
🎤 Persijn
01. May 2018 · 10:42 UTC
@vfqd missing characters? You found a bug? Tell me more.
vfqd
02. May 2018 · 15:28 UTC
@Persijn I couldn't figure out exactly when it happened, but I think some of my keypresses were not being detected
Deborah-Soude
08. May 2018 · 06:31 UTC
Nice Pixel Art ! Good idea !