Unstableable by Recnaps

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made by Recnaps for Ludum Dare 49 (JAM)

The toy trucks are trying to knock over the beautiful block structure you have created. Hack into their mainframes and explode them to prevent them from destroying your hard work!InGame.png

Ratings

Given 6🗳️ 8🗨️

Feedback

Paul-Maxime
05. Oct 2021 · 00:30 UTC
It doesn't register the letters when I type too fast, I don't know why. :(

The font is also very small and pretty hard to read on small screens.
🎤 Recnaps
06. Oct 2021 · 18:16 UTC
Thanks for the feedback!
I was also having that problem but thought it was just me missing keys or messing up something. I thought the way it was coded would catch something like this but I will get back into the project and see if I can fix it.
I made the entire game while I had the resolution set to 1920x1080 even though I was planning on building it as webGL 🙃. I will definitely implement something for readability.
SirTobyB
11. Oct 2021 · 21:48 UTC
Cool idea, but i'm having problems with typing, seems like the game doesn't always recognize the keystrokes. And it's hard, because the trucks are really fast. ;) But anyway, I've had fun playing and practising.
Ozfolo
11. Oct 2021 · 21:51 UTC
Great game, very original but the trucks move just a bit too fast
Nyubi
12. Oct 2021 · 06:09 UTC
Yeehaaaaaw, had lots of fun with this - although for me the trucks were a bit too fast as well. No problems with the registration of keystrokes when I played, though. I consider a highscore of 558 pretty good :) Just some random ideas how to further develop the game (hypothetically or if you intend to): I think it'd be great if the trucks would start out slower and the initial words would be 3-4 letters and then keep "growing". Also what @paul-maxime said about the font size. One time I accidentally hit caps lock, maybe ignoring that would also make it easier (in the beginning). Really fun gameplay, thanks!
🎤 Recnaps
18. Oct 2021 · 18:07 UTC
I took your feedback and put out a small update! I think I fixed the font being too small and tried to code in a way to catch multiple letters being typed in at once. I squashed the tower so the player has more time in between when they see the trucks and when the trucks hit the tower. I slowed the trucks down a bit as well.
Thanks for all the feedback again, really appreciate it :smile:
CG_Fred
18. Oct 2021 · 18:37 UTC
Nice typing game. I feel like the theme wasn't that incorporated into the gameplay and would have loved some SFX and music. Fun game!
dcrdro
18. Oct 2021 · 18:49 UTC
Wow, such an unusual idea!
Mixing keyboard simulator and unstable - very well done!

The things I'd improve:
- moving from left cars don't allow you to type text until they are completely appear. This makes you waste really much time. Maybe need to make text right-to-left direction :)
- the first "failed" car crashes the building and it's game over. I'd make the hit of each car just a little

Anyway, it's very good entry with great potential. I'd like to play in post-jam version!