re🟡cycle by Ovidios
about
re🟡cycle is a fast-paced word-puzzle game! try and reach a high score by typing letters, forming words, fulfilling quests, leveling up, and strategically using the limited number of available spaces!
as for content, the game currently includes: - 17 quests (type "a gemstone!", "a 7+ letter word!", "a palindrome!") - 19 level-up rewards ("+1d4-2 to each letter value", "passively generate exp", "-1 option during level up; +2 spaces") - 10 achievements ("type the current zodiac sun sign", "score a negative letter value", "assemble a pokémon team")
this game was built using the following tools: - LÖVE (https://love2d.org/) as the game framework - Photoshop, Audacity, OBS, and others for multimedia work - Chiptone (https://sfbgames.itch.io/chiptone) for sound generation - The classic.lua (https://github.com/rxi/classic), json.lua (https://github.com/rxi/json.lua), and lovebird (https://github.com/rxi/lovebird) libraries
controls
| toggle fullscreen | detonate spaces | scroll the screen * | *type letters | advance tutorial | |-----------------------|---------------------|------------------------|------------------|----------------------| | F11 or 1 | SPACE | MOUSE WHEEL | A - Z | LEFT CLICK, SPACE, or ENTER |
| Windows | https://ovidios.itch.io/re-cycle |
| macOS | https://ovidios.itch.io/re-cycle |
| Source Code (.love) | https://ovidios.itch.io/re-cycle |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/recycle |
Ratings
| Overall | 47th | 4.05⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 133th | 3.675⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 11th | 4.429⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 110th | 3.952⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 3th | 4.571⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 38th | 3.976⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 119th | 3.056⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 122th | 3.525⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 22🗳️ | 2🗨️ |
Personally the worst part of the experience is the quests, this is mostly because I dont know any of the possible answers without looking them up which I feel makes it less fun. Perhaps if there was a thing that showed all the possible answers (maybe a scrapbook but that would take a lot of time) it would help people like me experience the game.
Further I feel as if I have too much freedom with word choice, scrabble limits this by making you only useletter you own but that would be hard in something like this. I feel some more direction would help alleviate this feeling like if say five words were cycling every few seconds at the top of the screen and if you made the word while it was up there you got double points. Just something to make me want to continue to play the game.
I really think this game is good, but it's hard for me to keep playing because there is no short term goal for me to work towards.
I can't expect you to test on every system though, it's a game jam. Very fun game!
Clever interpretation of the theme ;).
The game looks really good. And congratz by making it with LOVE (and maybe love) in two days !
Good job !
Overall, great game with a nice take on the theme! Great job!
I did not really understand all the mechanics (why can I type some letters and can't others sometimes? In the picture below, I was going for "zinc", which has no repeat letters as per the rules, but it's stopping me at the 2nd letter already)
It's pretty hard for a non-native speaker (probably a feature, not a bug), I can't come up with words under time pressure.
I would sometimes try to write a whole word, but then it doesn't accept some letters in the middle and I end up with something I did not intend on the screen.
Never managed to detonate the spaces, don't know how that was supposed to work.
For the theme, it seems like I actually have unlimited space (but limited "spaces", heh).