Ludum Dare #30compo

Connected Words

by teesquared

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.41

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.12

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.16

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.56

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.46

Audio★★★★★★★★★★1.20

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.05

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.64

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★57%

What is it like to be John Cleese, Emma Watson, or Notch? Connect words to enter their worlds through the social network.

In Connected Words, you arrange words to try to figure out what people are saying.

NOTE: This game can be pretty hard. If you get a score over 100, please post and let me know. That is awesome.

BUG: Emoji characters show up as blanks.

* Mobile version is post compo with lots of changes. It is FREE with no ads and no DRM (except if required by platform). Please play and review the web flash entry for the compo but I'd love to hear what you think about the mobile version too. Thanks!

Tools: Audacity

Comments28

pythong25 Aug 2014, 11:41

I played this longer than I thought I would. nice concept, a bit more animation for a fanciness factor would be great

Njord25 Aug 2014, 14:34

Nice idea. I like how it fits into the Connecting Worlds theme in many, many ways.

mrexcessive25 Aug 2014, 15:22

Surprisingly addictive with the 'real world' link. Makes we want to try using the Twitter API, so thank you for that also!

Tanner25 Aug 2014, 19:59

Nice mechanics.

danidre1426 Aug 2014, 03:42

I liked this game, but this was too hard! Great job though. :D

liquidminduk26 Aug 2014, 03:47

Interesting idea, I got pretty hooked quickly. I like text puzzles like this.
The game matched up really well to the theme! Great stuff

jmjd26 Aug 2014, 08:02

Nice job! It's interesting to figure out the way people talk on twitter when you look at a tweet all jumbled up like that.

shimage26 Aug 2014, 08:14

It seems some amazing technology is used. I am not English speaker so this will be training of language for me :)

ATTA Games27 Aug 2014, 08:07

Great entry! Fantastic and really original idea.

ob616027 Aug 2014, 08:08

Very different to other games entered but still fun nonetheless :)

43iscoding27 Aug 2014, 08:10

Another typo theme interpretation, which turned out actually pretty fun and playable. Simple and addicting gameplay

scriptblocks29 Aug 2014, 00:32

different

hbocao30 Aug 2014, 20:49

Very interesting gameplay! Kinda hard with too much hashtags and links. Pretty cool entry!

miwuc30 Aug 2014, 20:59

Very fun innovative game. It really makes you appreciate how nonsensical some (most?) of these tweets are.
Definitely a favorite. Great job!

Thingo Studios30 Aug 2014, 21:08

Occasionally I would get tweets like "@JamieFoxx [LINK]" which were... not difficult. But this was surprisingly fun. Graphics could be less minimal, though: it looks like a very boring Jeopardy ripoff atm. I got up to 109 before I failed, which is apparently on the high end?

Teesquaredauthor30 Aug 2014, 21:11

@Thingo Studios yeah I think if you beat a score 100 in this one that is pretty awesome. There is no difficulty scaling so you need some luck to do it.

phi30 Aug 2014, 21:42

I like the cool, innovative idea and the connection with the real world. I generally like when games are made using unusual technologies, but I'm afraid this one didn't keep me interested for very long. It's awesome and fits the theme very well, even though the gameplay isn't the most exciting.

SK16Games30 Aug 2014, 22:12

Haha really really fun and addicting game :D You should really consider making it an app (before someone else does it), I think that could get to be the next popular quiz-app!
Score: 83 :D

Xgor30 Aug 2014, 22:21

Great idea and game.

InfectionTeam30 Aug 2014, 22:53

Ooh I love word puzzles, bookmarked to play some more later :D
Very original idea (as far as I'm aware), well done.

skiddings30 Aug 2014, 23:37

Surprisingly fun!

Kyle Mac31 Aug 2014, 00:34

Amazing concept!

Crefossus1 Sep 2014, 07:18

Good feedback when you get it wrong.

jukimv19865 Sep 2014, 00:22

hahaha awesome!! now I want to know how did you do that. Well done!

jprogman10 Sep 2014, 04:10

Lol, nice way to turn Twitter into a game!
"Connected Words"... I got it. :)

Beard11 Sep 2014, 01:10

I liked that this game is no where close to how I interpreted the theme. Nice work on coming up with something original, and great use of the theme. This is deceptively difficult.

awesomeusername13 Sep 2014, 19:19

Surprisingly interesting game, I like it.

Scored 98, so close. :P

barryrowe14 Sep 2014, 01:00

This is an interesting concept. it would have been nice to see more animation and some audio.