Ludum Dare #23compo

Tiny Wor ds

by bneutral

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.49

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.86

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.57

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.88

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.83

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.57

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.82

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.19

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★60%

Getting some stuff to work was quite troublesome because of security restrictions, I hope you guys can enjoy it.

I hope the online version doesn't die to high traffic despite the little weight of the game.

Sorry about the file host for standalone versions and source, but I'm in a rush and most of the good ones went under after the Megaupload thing.

PS: The source requires Flixel + Flixel power tools to compile.

Edit: Fixed a bug that allowed play with less than 100 tweets.
Edit2: Fixed a bug with connection timeouts and uploaded to newgrounds.

Comments23

tequibo22 Apr 2012, 12:06

Nice idea.
It would be cool hashtag search was hard-coded by you and game would recognise some keywords, like materials for platforms.
So if someone would write a tweet "#tinywords a bouncing platform with a coin", keywords being "bouncing" and "coin" game would display, well, a more bouncing platform with a coin on it.

Gremlin24 Apr 2012, 00:40

Oh, wow. Clever.

I wish my jump went just a bit higher, or that people would post shorter tweets(!) :/

Gremlin24 Apr 2012, 00:44

Starting to get the hang of it now. :) The secret is in timing the double jumps.

FunkyDelPueblo24 Apr 2012, 01:56

This is completely awesome. Love the concept, love the execution. It get pretty much impossible for me around the 2500-characters left (due to # of birds, lightness of my character). Wish I could have seen what happens when you get to freedom.

KevinZuhn24 Apr 2012, 02:55

Woah! That's some crazy integration!
Aside from the novelty of jumping on twitter feeds, the gameplay of climbing up a super-long tower is decently fun, though I feel like it drags on without any late-game twists. I spent a lot of time misjudging a double-jump, getting shunted against the wall and then falling four blocks!

seagaia25 Apr 2012, 05:39

Neat usage of twitter feeds, diggin' the aesthetics...

strega25 Apr 2012, 07:35

Interesting use of outside media. The word "blah" brought up a couple of interesting messages. The jumping got a really repetitive after a while. :x

daandruff25 Apr 2012, 07:41

It's a cool idea, but the gameplay gets a bit repetetive quickly. Nice graphics and solid entry.

callidus25 Apr 2012, 07:46

Nice idea, interesting and clever way to generate game content :-) the jumping got a bit repetitive though

Impossible26 Apr 2012, 03:19

Clever idea.

fatSquirrel26 Apr 2012, 03:21

A fun way to read random tweets.

Kassoon27 Apr 2012, 01:14

Wow, great idea! It got a bit too hard and I got a bit too impatient towards the end, but I really liked it. It probably didn't help that I tried to read the tweets as I went.

deejorg27 Apr 2012, 01:19

Almost reached the top!! Damm! I have fun playing this game, good job

jwolf28 Apr 2012, 01:13

Woah, that is surreal. Neat idea!

elektron28 Apr 2012, 01:26

Now do the same thing with facebook.

2328 Apr 2012, 05:29

Great use of tweet harvesting.

R3ason28 Apr 2012, 20:10

Fabulous! And very creative! I had wanted to somehow integrate twitter into my game, but you did it so wonderfully! Thanks for sharing! Bookmarking for later inspiration...

jrasmussen241 May 2012, 05:24

It was a pretty funny game if you searched for "Kanye".

icefallgames3 May 2012, 02:07

Haha, simple mechanics but very original concept :-)

Sodaware7 May 2012, 21:29

I really liked the idea! It gets quite challenging later on, but it's fun to see the new messages as they appear. I think with a little polish, such as adding a proper character and some platforming elements, could turn this into something really fun.