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This is a pretty standard Mario-esque platformer in which we replaced art assets with words. Let your imagination fill in the rest. Play time is 6-8 minutes. Enjoy!
Team: Liz England & Nick Weihs
Indie Impressions made a video playthrough if you would rather watch than play:
Notes: * The game has controller support if you prefer that over WASD * If you can't run the game, you may need to install the XNA Redistributable. It is included in the download.
Really cool concept with the words - I love the shapes you got them into. The variety of different words, forms, and enemies was great. I found the game a little bit hard and frustrating at times - I may be getting to old to have patience for difficult platform games, so that might just be my problem. I love the dialog between the characters - perfect fit to the theme.
I once had an idea to do a game where the world was made up of ASCII characters, but this is brilliant--a typography world? Awesome!
Seriously, I would love to see this style expanded into an action-adventure game rather than just an action platformer. Refine the style a bit and I would seriously buy it in a heartbeat.
Even though this game could have faffed off its gameplay, it didn't. The jumps were breezy enough to allow proper precision for platforming and the end boss fight was actually fun!
Overall, fantastic job and I hope this prototype is expanded further if possible!
Nice mood. I didn't find the game particularly interesting though. I liked the camera movement, but many elements were quite confusing, together with the color coding.
Excellent! I needed a bit of cheering up and the intro had me belly laughing. Then I was just stunned by all of the tile descriptions. All of that, and it was quite fun to play too :)
While the platforming felt a bit stiff, the concept was fun and I had fun playing it. Interesting how ones imagination fills in the blanks. The music was also nice and added a good amount to the experience.
Awesome game- Awesome concept. I really like how your imagination takes over, based on simple words on the screen. It gets slightly confusing at times, but all in all very cool. With a bit of refinement, and maybe a story line, this would be something I wouldn't mind paying for!
Nice idea and nice scope. I've seen games with stuff made out of words for sure, but this one is funnier (I liked the escalation of descriptiveness as the game went on) and fit the theme well. I wish it supported arrow keys as well as WASD so I didn't have to play with my left hand. The difficulty curve was good. Was crying out for a wall marked "secretsecretsecret"!
I really liked the style you've chosen, fits the theme perfectly. Some of the jumping was a little frustrating at times but I still really enjoyed it. Totally agree with cybearg and would love to see this as an action adventure.
Cool! I really liked the theme. On the negative side words were a bit harsh (aliased) which make playing not so comfortable. Otherwise great job, and absolute theme fit! .)
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Farjuan2 May 2013, 21:46
This is deffinitly what i was expecting for this theme!
Really good length. I mean, it could have been longer, but it was not too short. The variance in platforming (and color) throughout the game kept it interesting. One of my favorite games so far.
Fantastic game. I liked that I was able to use my gamepad to play it. I really liked that the platformer mechanics weren't just a vehicle for the gimmick but were well designed.
Really enjoyed looking through all the words in the environment to see all the unique words. A lot of detail in the environment for it being made of words :P Really neat. :)
Most games I try I'm like "Well, I guess this is minimalist", but I think this one really deserves some points towards theme (and some other categories, of course!). It's ingenious. Good job.
If I were to complain about a thing or two, it would be these: - I felt like the camera changing depending on the way you are facing was a bit too fast, and thus was a bit disorienting in vertical sections where the player has to change direction often. - The other thing is, WASD/Space is a bit weird for me, since I'm used to traditional platformers which tend to go for arrow keys. I would have at liked the option to use arrow keys (←→/↑）.
It perfectly suit the ludum dare subject! I love the idea and graphic! On the other hand I hate games with many many many platforms ...and being push by enemies all the time (I'm not patient enough, so I didn't finish the game...)
I impressed with environment from words.
I love this game =)