How exactly does this work? I builded "eat" and "ass" but nothing happens, the score won't increase, so what words do I have to build?
I like the dungeon and the fight mechanics btw.

This is a pretty cool concept. I like the idea of improving by collecting letters. It would be even better if you could make even more things like Potion, or Iron Gauntlets, etc.
Also, I notcied the enemies health doesn't scale? At least not a lot. By my 3rd sword I ended up one shotting everything.
It'd be cool if we could tell we could build and item too and what letters we need to build an item.
Ended the game at 6525 score.

@leorid You can only craft the items in the craft menu (hit "c" while in game!)

Thanks for the web build, I'm tired of downloading exe files. The map gets a bit confusing after a while, but amazing and innovative concept! :slight_smile:

I actually really like the word search part! Maybe could make a good spell system . . .

@vilix64 I also really appreciate the web builds, so when it came time to publish my entry I knew i needed to include one.

@agentendercake

Well I think I reached the end of the game? Sword +10-ish, Shield ~lvl3
, Helmet 2, refilled Health twice.

I LOVE THIS GAME :D


@leorid the game is infinite in theory, the procedural generator isnt perfect though and will occasionally create floors with no stairwell. I'm glad you're enjoying it!

There is an artificial scarcity! too difficult to get a 'H'
:laughing:
good job!

I can't figure out where to input the words? Sorry! Can I get some help so I can play and rate?


I wish I could dump some useless letters (such as W after getting a sword). Nice concept!

@rosypenguin hit "c" to craft!

I got about five floors down before realizing I was supposed to collect things! Lol, I'll keep trying but thank you for the game!

@Angelbait great to hear from you, let me know what you think!

Hey, I finally figured out how to craft! I think the game has a ton of potential, I'm a fan of dungeon crawlers and I love the way you mixed in the word collecting elements. I think what this game really needs is a clearer description, because although I read the 'about' and 'controls' sections, some of the gameplay elements still confused me. I'll write them out for other players, because I know I can't be the only one who was struggling to understand!

* You do not need a sword to attack. There is no feedback showing when your character is attacking, but space will allow you to kill enemies if you stand close enough to them.
* You have to collect all the letters of the words you want to craft, not necessarily in order. Once you spelled out the word, you hit C and then click the item you want to craft. I for the longest time thought there was an input box somewhere I had to "type" out to craft, considering the game name has the word "Typer" in its name.

Sorry for the long comment but overall, the game concept is great but just a bit of feedback and descriptions will help the game immensely! Great work!

@rosypenguin thanks for the feedback, 1 point of clarification. You can collect the letters in any order, as long as you have the appropriate letters in your inventory you will be able to craft an item.

@agentendercake Gotcha, I'll edit my post!

Good concept and nice game. The graphics do get a bit repetitive but hey it ldjam :D

Is it only me or the letter 'e' is VERY RARE? Ok, I got shield but couldn't get a helmet or refill a health even once :) Other than that — pretty funny game.

@Roman Petrov The letters are distributed in a non-weighted random manner right now. For instance, if the words you could craft were "abc", "abb", "ccc" when you killed an enemy, it would choose a random letter from the pool "abc" (each letter used in a word, only 1 instance of each letter in the pool. This means that letters used extensively in multiple are unfortunately at the same rarity as letters only used once in one word (such as 'w' being the same rarity as'e').

I’m not sure if you were able to see it, but I played your game on my stream at https://www.twitch.tv/saoigames tonight.

What was I supposed to do with the letters? I got a bit lost trying to go through the rooms. At first I was nervous to hit the enemies but once I realized they would go down quickly I was trying to figure out how to spell specific words but the letter drops were too random. Sometimes I'd get all vowels and others all consonants.

Does the game have an end? I felt like it would keep going deeper and wider with no real end goal.

It would have been nice if I could turn my word in for upgrades like if I spelled sword or shield or health it would have given me a reward.

Otherwise the game seems more like a proof of concept.

I hope you keep working on it and add an end state.

@saoi-games You can craft with 'c', and if you have the letters to spell the words it will use them

Had a lot of fun with this one. I like several of the suggestions above. If you come back to this project, there are a lot of ways you could make it even more interesting. However, what you came up with for LD - including restarting from scratch! - is very impressive! Well done. :)

Fun game! I loved gathering all the letters and I obsessed over finding the right ones to help me fill out my inventory. Just a little heads up: the return to main menu button is broken on the web version after you go to the About screen. Fun game (thanks for playing mine too :))