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Typodie by Kusaihana

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made by Kusaihana for LD 41 (COMPO)

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Combining typing, tower defense and some features from board games. You can place turrets on stone tiles. Costs money which you can gain by killing some monsters or typing the given text. You need to be patient and type it slowly, you do not need to be fast. Game turns are decided by you: whenever you roll the dice. This random factor affects how much the monster will come closer to you. If any monster touches the girl during movement, it deals damage. The player can heal himself/herself also by typing the given text. I wanted to try traditional art for this Ludum Dare and worked with watercolors; which was quiet fun but did not work well at the end. Since the characters are so small the effect is not visible like I aimed.

I made the background music during the event using GarageBand. Chinese instruments were "incompatible" with this game, but well; I tried to put as many incompatible things as I can: watercolor graphics, this kinda music, tower defence, rolling the dice, typing.

P.S. A game without cats... I am disappointed in myself

Windows https://kusaihana.itch.io/typodie
macOS https://kusaihana.itch.io/typodie
HTML5 (web) https://kusaihana.itch.io/typodie
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/typodie

Ratings

Overall 625th 2.82⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Fun 672th 2.348⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 421th 3.217⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Theme 197th 3.896⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 261th 3.46⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Audio 155th 3.396⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Humor 446th 2.333⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Mood 356th 3.022⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Given 22🗳️ 33🗨️

Feedback

Aaron Nemoyten
23. Apr 2018 · 09:21 UTC
I think the build - at least the Mac build - is broken; The text at the top says "type this to heal," and typing that sentence doesn't seem to do anything. Also, hitting Space rolls the dice, so I can't type that phrase anyway without causing a turn to happen.

I'm also unclear on the character movement - the player character seems to move around randomly when hit, and as part of that random movement sometimes passes through enemies, thus taking even more damage.

That being said, I really like the music, the art, the idea... it just seems like the game is broken right now.
Aterlamia
23. Apr 2018 · 09:23 UTC
I liked the background music, the typing is a fun mechanic. And i have to say even if the effect of the water color is a bit small and not what you aimed i think it gives a good look and feel to the game
DraperDanMan
23. Apr 2018 · 09:33 UTC
This was interesting! Though there was a lot going on to manage at first. Type, place towers, roll dice, etc. At first, I was taking my time, because it appeared turn based. but more and more enemies were spawning while I was just reading how to play. But perhaps I was mistaken and there was something else I was doing. However, it means that the 2nd or 3rd time I rolled the dice I died immediately haha.
A very interesting idea! Great work!
Aarre Entertainment
23. Apr 2018 · 11:03 UTC
Very decent game and overall a good implementation of incompatible genres, though the gameplay was a bit random and messy. With polish this could be a very fun casual board game.
🎤 Kusaihana
23. Apr 2018 · 11:09 UTC
@DraperDanMan The movement of the characters are turned-based whereas a new monster spawns every 5 seconds. Therefore, it is also important to be fast. There is a cooldown to roll the dice: 3 seconds. Maybe you waited and so many monsters are spawned and then then you roll the dice and move the characters, they touch you and damage you. Thanks a lot for the feedback, your experience shows that my design is not balanced and I have so much to learn about game design 🙃

@Aterlamia I am happy that you like the watercolor effects, I was happy with the texture of tiles; but I think the resolution of other things makes the game look messy.

@aaron-nemoyten I am so sorry that you experienced this, do you have the text file under Resources? I will try to test, rebuild and resubmit. While monsters try to move closer to the player (the amount depends on the dice), player moves randomly (I thought this would add some more difficulty to the game but it did not work well, made it unbalanced).
🎤 Kusaihana
23. Apr 2018 · 11:15 UTC
@aarre-entertainment Yeah too much randomity O.o I need to go back and reconsider some design features. During the jam, I tried to add everything comes to my mind.. which was a bad idea but fun 🙃 thanks!
Bitten Toast Games
24. Apr 2018 · 11:18 UTC
Not sure if it's broken or I'm missing something. At the top it says "Type this to heal" but typing doesn't do anything, and I'm not sure even if I'm typing. The art is very pretty.
T8kk
24. Apr 2018 · 11:29 UTC
I'm enjoying the atmosphere with the audio immediately entering the game, I was a little overwhelmed with the text when I entered the game but eventually got around to build stuff and strategise! I find the game mechanic fresh fascinating in combining tower defense and roguelikeish motion. Only I struggled with the difficulty but I can definitely see value in refining this idea further kusaihana!
🎤 Kusaihana
24. Apr 2018 · 12:54 UTC
@bitten-toast-games yeah it is broken, I am trying to find a way to make the directory for the txt file work. it works in my computer but when I zip the project it does not. So weird, I think I am just gonna remove reading from txt file and just hard code the texts. The new working build should be ready tonight (: thanks a lot for the feedback

@t8kk Typing is overwhelming and poorly implemented. However, I would love to work on it more and improve. Thanks for giving me the courage to do so!
sndr
24. Apr 2018 · 15:55 UTC
I feel I'm missing something :/ How does the typing mechanic work for me to type? I can see the "Type this to heal" thing on the top, but I'm not sure what is it that I need to type. The idea looks promising though, although I think the randomness factor could be decreased a bit so that it does have an effect, but not that big. Music is cool! It sets up a nice cute ambience! ^^
🎤 Kusaihana
24. Apr 2018 · 19:29 UTC
@sndr The browser and Mac version was not working properly because of Resources folder which is used to get the text typed. Now I should be fixed, sorry for the bug 🙄 but yes, now first you need to type "Type this to heal" to heal yourself. Thanks a lot for the comment (:
Mustafa Simsek
24. Apr 2018 · 20:02 UTC
Menu with a nice song welcomes and gives some inside information about your character design. I found the gameplay a little hard, I could not even destroy 1 monster for a few times but then I succeeded. The only problem I see is that, there is no 'restart'. Everytime, I restarted the game myself 🙁
tomdeal
24. Apr 2018 · 20:07 UTC
good graphics and I also like the music. I did have a bit of a problem with the gameplay, as sometimes it felt too random. Also, either I'm very bad at typing or some input did not register correctly. Otherwise good entry!
Lewis Quaife
24. Apr 2018 · 20:39 UTC
Gosh its so nice to play a relaxin game like this after some of the fast pace games. And love the music and soft deign too. I got a bit unlucky with the die, so had to do the typing a few times - And you made me type that I will review, so here I am 🙃
Serious07
24. Apr 2018 · 21:02 UTC
I'm like graphical enemies design. I'm think what th most not intuitive thing in that game is what you can put towers on the wall. When turrets attack enemies here not any response from towers. I'm was see tip on th screen but text just merged with the environment. Music is good. This game has it's own cool mood. After restart, type function stop working correctly. Well done :D
TomekS
25. Apr 2018 · 04:12 UTC
Nice and relaxing, I recon you might have some bugs in the typing system, later on I get my hp taken out after typing just a first letter (correctly), also maybe it would be interesting to actually make user type fast to get some extra hp/"monyi" just to break the pacing a bit. Well done on the music :). Last thing, would love the restart button on game over screen.
maoap
25. Apr 2018 · 18:34 UTC
Great game, it took me some time to figure out ho to play it :) But then it fas fun and quite relaxing
Altron
27. Apr 2018 · 11:17 UTC
A mix of many genres :) The graphics is really nice - use of watercolours in games is a great idea.

There is only one thing I really miss in this game - a cat...