Chains of long words were sometimes near impossible to pass through successfully, and after a bad streak I dropped to difficulty 1 and no more words appeared.
Wow, talk about difficult games. Some parts are pretty damn easy, but then a huge word comes up, and its gets real. After a while the words stopped appearing, which is kind of a bummer.
games about typing are difficult to make engaging you've given it a good try here but unfortunately the game falls to the inherent monotony of the "type things fastly" mechanic
unfortunately most of your options for remedying the problem don't adhere to the theme. minimalism can be tough!
I love typing games, probably because I rarely feel like I have some natural skill going into a game.
This was a good execution, though the difficulty curve is a little off (it goes to pretty ridiculous quickly, and then just ends?). Note that the recognizability of a word is almost as important as its length in typing speed. Using some kind of term frequency weighting for difficulty would improve it.
Thanks for the feedback guys - a lot of these features were on our list but we just ran out of time. We've learned a lot during our first Jam, and will continue dev on this game afterwards.
The difficulty curve could've been better (lots of long / short words being mixed without a real pattern). The game suddenly stopped throwing words at me too.
We had always intended for the level to be both endless and generated by procedural means. The plan was to use these systems to balance the difficulty.
Sadly we ran out of time to get these systems working. The ugre to cheat and finish the system has been resisted! Hopefully you can appreciate what we were going for.
Not a bad concept, and the first typing game I've played so far. However, there is one big flaw... Reading the text as it moves hurts my eyes. I think it would be better if the text was stationary somewhere on screen, as trying to follow it while playing is difficult, and it distorts the text.
Maybe it should be more like "win get pull bark goal beaf house jerk transport ladyboy watermelon" instead of "aw impudently ie ro el po impossiblewordthatkillsyou pi or let"
Not bad, like other said it was pretty tough. Or maybe I just need to learn to touch-type. Also, the level seemed to stop generating after about four mins?
Well implemented, good way to help people learn to type. I'd have liked the words to come up in a word length pattern similar to that in a sentence, rather than consecutive two letter words and consecutive huge words that I have no idea how spell. However, this is only level design, the mechanics is solid, good entry!
Enjoyed this one. Some of the word choices were pretty amusing. I think there was too much of a delay after you miss a letter and maybe a smoother difficulty curve would have been nice, "yi", "de", "doo", "necromancer" :) Overall good fun, great audio feedback, well done.
Awesome concept :D Good touch typing practice too. Some long words need to be seen early to be passed but i'm sure it's possible. I did notice the words stop at one point. Very fun otherwise though :D
it's much cooler then similar dos stuff I played as a kid on 386, but there was The Typing of the Dead between you and those days. you might find it hard to compete.
Great music, enjoyed the graphic style. The words became needlessly complicated all too soon, and when I got to difficulty 2 the game appeared to run out of words! Still, good job! :)
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you've given it a good try here but unfortunately the game falls to the inherent monotony of the "type things fastly" mechanic
unfortunately most of your options for remedying the problem don't adhere to the theme. minimalism can be tough!
This was a good execution, though the difficulty curve is a little off (it goes to pretty ridiculous quickly, and then just ends?). Note that the recognizability of a word is almost as important as its length in typing speed. Using some kind of term frequency weighting for difficulty would improve it.
High score 45 words!
Sadly we ran out of time to get these systems working. The ugre to cheat and finish the system has been resisted! Hopefully you can appreciate what we were going for.
It went on like this for a while. Neat game, but when you boil it down, it's just a "teaches typing" game.