Boggle Battle by clue

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made by clue for Ludum Dare 46 (JAM)

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Make words quickly to stay alive amidst an ending flow of letters!

Boggle Battle is a multiplayer game supporting any number of players. Make words quickly to survive, but make sure you plan ahead to conserve useful letters! Making long words sends additional lines of letters to the player on your right.

Join the same room at http://battle.jschnei.com/?room=[yourroomname] to play with your friends!!

Controls/rules

  • Use the mouse to click and drag between tiles to make words. Tiles must be adjacent orthogonally or diagonally.
  • If you make a valid word, those tiles are cleared and remaining tiles fall down.
  • If you make a word with 5 or more letters, you will attack the player on your right by sending additional lines to their board. The number of lines is equal to the length of the word minus 4 (so 5-letter word=1 line, 6-letter word=2 lines, etc.).
  • If a tile goes above the top of your board, you lose and are out for the round. Try to be the last one standing!

Additional notes

Given the current times, we wanted to make a multiplayer game that we could share with our friends online, inspired by playing games like Skribblio and online Codenames. We hope that this game can similarly provide some fun to all of you distancing out there. :)

This is the first networked game we've made, and we're not sure how robust the server is. If the game is not working, let us know and we'll try to fix it ASAP.

Credits

Made with Haxeflixel.

Design and programming by Colin Lu, Jon Schneider, and Anderson Wang.

Ratings

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Feedback

PythooonUser
21. Apr 2020 · 16:48 UTC
Unfortunately I get a timeout error when trying to access the above URL (I also used my username for the room).
🎤 clue
22. Apr 2020 · 07:07 UTC
@pythooonuser Hello! I think we were having some server issues earlier today, but it seems to be working again now.
slotha
23. Apr 2020 · 23:53 UTC
I'm having the same problem.
FireSlash
23. Apr 2020 · 23:56 UTC
Also getting timeouts. Looks like it's dead again
Actyl
23. Apr 2020 · 23:58 UTC
I will literally pay you money to make this work
Kassilver
24. Apr 2020 · 00:03 UTC
Its such a neat concept, but unfortunately I didn't get it to load. Will have to check back later.
caeonosphere
24. Apr 2020 · 00:26 UTC
Yeah, looks like it's dead... @ mention me when it's back up and I'll try it out with a friend!
Kotka
24. Apr 2020 · 00:27 UTC
RIP :(
mahalis
24. Apr 2020 · 00:38 UTC
I was excited to play this—I love word games—but yep, server times out for me too. Please comment if you end up getting it working again; seems like potentially a lot of fun.
Camden Obertop
24. Apr 2020 · 00:50 UTC
Please get that link working guys! looks really fun
DangerBlack
04. May 2020 · 18:18 UTC
Games is quite fun, I've played alone, probably after the update.
Thanks for sharing this game, probably with more times could be more playable.
Also with different languages (i'm italian so is quite hard)

Not even sure if the generator keep giving possible words or just random letter. But could be improved in this way