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You Have My Word by BauBau

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made by BauBau for LD 41 (JAM)

First Ludum Dare, the game is almost "complete"! We wanted to add more levels and stuff but time is short.

The idea of the game:

The two incompatible genres chosen are Racing and Word game. The purpose is to collect letters and deliver the requested word to the mechanic (hints on what the word are in the mechanic dialog). Like Scrabble on wheels!

How to play:

  • W A S D - Car movement 🏎️

  • E - Collect letter ⛏️

  • Space - Handbrake (upgrade) 🛑

  • Shift - Nitro (upgrade) 🚀

word.jpg

EDIT: There's one bug that needs fixing, unfortunately there was not enough time last night. Currently you have to wait for the timer to expire in order for the next round to start.

EDIT 2: Fixed the timer issue, now the round should end when all correct letters are picked up.

We plan on improving the game once rating is finished! Feedback is much appreciated! Source code soon.

Enjoy!

Windows https://baubau.itch.io/havemyword
HTML5 (web) https://baubau.itch.io/havemyword
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/you-have-my-word

Ratings

Overall 712th 3.333⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Fun 709th 3.182⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 396th 3.578⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Theme 292th 3.955⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 671th 3.348⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Audio 599th 2.891⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Humor 527th 2.983⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Mood 827th 2.984⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Given 30🗳️ 31🗨️

Feedback

HKoisumi
24. Apr 2018 · 00:16 UTC
Freaking amazing! Excelent work, wanna check ours too??

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/hype-time
🎤 BauBau
24. Apr 2018 · 09:36 UTC
Hei @hkoisumi, thank you! Will visit and rate ! :D
Eldemarkki
24. Apr 2018 · 14:25 UTC
Cool idea! The car moved just as I wanted it to!
Kaarel
24. Apr 2018 · 14:26 UTC
Nice game! I finished the final level with a full 60 seconds left on the clock though, so it would be nice if you could complete the levels early. I like the idea, the music and graphics were nice. The car controls when boosting and turning are a bit unusual, but otherwise it's great!
Borodar
24. Apr 2018 · 17:41 UTC
Nice idea, but controls are freaking hard. I guess, it would be cool to move camera when you turing around.
🎤 BauBau
24. Apr 2018 · 18:27 UTC
Thanks for the feedback @Eldemarkki @Kaarel @Borodar ! Definitely needs some fixes and tweaks, we'll gladly fix them once the rating is over :D
tthe
24. Apr 2018 · 18:31 UTC
Well, I like the idea but have a couple of things I would like added:

-The E button feels really weird with WASD controls, maybe arrow movement or an alternative(space or mouseclick) pick up letter button

-Once all the letters are picked up, the round should end. There is no reason to wait that other 10-30 sec out after the map is completed. At first it is quite confusing.

-A pause button could be useful (or if TAB is pressed the word is shown)

Overall I like the style and the idea is great aswell!
theArtifacts
24. Apr 2018 · 20:16 UTC
I don't think I used the brakes ever. Thought the game was pretty fun. Should maybe end the current level as soon as they collect the correct work, and give a way to drop letters picked up by mistake. Good work on this one! Would you mind reviewing my game? https://ldjam.com/users/theartifacts/
ThibautPierron
24. Apr 2018 · 20:39 UTC
Nice game, and it really fit the theme. Two things were weird. The first time I played i didnt notice the word, put it in bold should be clearer. And start with the car the wrong way confused me a bit. But the game is still nice! great work!
boblova
24. Apr 2018 · 23:40 UTC
its a great game but it handled a bit stangly the art and music are excellent.
Seanale
24. Apr 2018 · 23:42 UTC
I like the idea, reminds me of a cute game to teach kids how to spell (but made nicer X)).
Human Writes Code
24. Apr 2018 · 23:57 UTC
Nice game. I found the handling a bit difficult but I got the hang of it eventually. Overall, pretty polished!
folex70
25. Apr 2018 · 01:39 UTC
very nice game. i loved and played a lot
🎤 BauBau
25. Apr 2018 · 09:35 UTC
Thanks guys! @tthe @theArtifacts the timer issue has been fixed and now the round ends when all letters are picked up. I've noted down your suggestins and we'll improve when rating is over :). Controlls will definitely improve.

@thibautpierron we will add a hint button or make it so the word is visible, thanks !

@boblova Yeah, controls are a priority once the rating is done.

@seanale I was thinking the same, with a bit of work this can turn up to be just that, but more fun. :D

@human-writes-code We'll continue to improve every aspect of the game, thank you!

@folex70 Glad you liked it ! ;)
fitz13
25. Apr 2018 · 23:02 UTC
Like @theArtifacts mentioned, an ability to drop letters would be nice, or to auto-fail the round if the combination of letters wasn't going to work.

Very fun game though. The controls took some getting used to, but once you do, they're really nice. It's a little bit of a rush drifting around a corner, or swinging the car around in reverse, and then flooring it.

Good-looking level too. The perspective, color palette, and general aesthetic works really well.
🎤 BauBau
25. Apr 2018 · 23:42 UTC
@fitz13 Thanks for the feedback! The feature to drop a letter is there, but never got to implement it :) Will do after rating is done.
Raoul
26. Apr 2018 · 09:02 UTC
Out of control with an AZERTY keyboard...
Otherwise the game seems funny and original.
Nice job !
🎤 BauBau
26. Apr 2018 · 09:23 UTC
@raoul friend of mine mentioned that this might happen. Will change to Arrows. Thanks!
Anthony Krafft
26. Apr 2018 · 11:25 UTC
Would have loved if we could drop letters, as requested above. As is, the game can be frustrating, especially in the learning phase. Cool concept though!
🎤 BauBau
26. Apr 2018 · 11:33 UTC
@anthony-krafft thanks for the feedback ! The feature will be implemented in the same way you pick up the letters, you go to a spot and you can delete as many as you want. I'm sure you got it the second time around ;)
Iaaac
26. Apr 2018 · 18:27 UTC
This game was hard but really solid. Only feedback i could say is to make it easier for a starting level as the time limit is a little too tight. Also the car looks out of place graphics wise, little too high res in comparison to the rest. Really good work though.
Wevel
27. Apr 2018 · 08:21 UTC
Cool game. I think that the controls are semi realistic, in that you have to be moving to turn. The handbrake didn't seem to be that useful so you slow down fairly fast anyway.
Timco
27. Apr 2018 · 08:27 UTC
Your game is really cool but the engineboost moves a little bit wired.
Check out our game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/unkown-title
🎤 BauBau
27. Apr 2018 · 08:42 UTC
@Wevel @Timco thanks guys! indeed these are all things that we need to improve, and we will :D
morrilet
27. Apr 2018 · 21:31 UTC
This was really fun! The concept was good, and the execution was well done. I liked the graphics and the controls felt really good. My only complaints were that I had a hard time navigating the menus (didn't know whether to click or press) and sometimes it was hard to tell what I could and couldn't drive through because of the camera angle. Aside from those minor things though it was a really solid entry and lots of fun to play. Great work!
microwerx
28. Apr 2018 · 14:55 UTC
The concept was pretty nice. Sometimes, the controls played with your mind and it was easy to get stuck. But, I thought the game overall was fun to play.
Ja_viera
28. Apr 2018 · 20:21 UTC
At first I struggled with the controls but it was pretty fun overall, the character was humorous too. Maybe you didn't have time for this but it would have been nice being able to drop the letters when you were wrong or maybe that it just failed you automatically. The art was pretty nice too.
csanyk
29. Apr 2018 · 22:40 UTC
Graphics are pretty good. Audio is even better, although the car engine could be more realistic.

I thought the car was facing "backwards" but I guess I'm just reading the image wrong. It took me a minute to realize that I can only turn if I'm moving forward/backward. Doing this with keyboard input is really awkward, and I was terrible at the game, but I bet with a driving controller or even just a gamepad I would have done better at it. I thought that letter pickups should be automatic rather than require a button press, but I guess if you have to do it in the right order, then this makes sense. But it also makes it harder, and frustrating.