Scrabble Invader

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.32
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.32
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.11
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.34
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.16
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.90
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.81
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.81
Scrabble Invader

Is your mind as sharp as your reflexes ? Try it in a Scrabble - Space Invader crossover !

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Use keyboard arrows and mouse to move your spacecraft around.

Mouseclic to shoot a laser.

Kill invaders to get Scrabble Letters.

Drag and drop Scrabble Letters to write Scrabble Words and get gears for your spacecraft !

The longer the Scrabble Word, the most xp you get to improve your spacecraft. But be quick, the invaders are getting stronger as well !

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Post-compo version coming soon ;)

Update : Post-Compo version is here, with an option for world-related control of the spaceship !

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Comments17

bcvery123 Apr 2018, 11:29
Nice game, great combination of genres. Found it very difficult to move relative to the mouse, was expecting relative to the grid. Good job
tyen23 Apr 2018, 11:33
Pretty cool idea. It was a good idea to include a small tutorial at the start.
The controls are a bit hard to get used to. I expected the rotation not to affect the movement.
sndr
sndr23 Apr 2018, 11:39
Very cool take on the theme! Found it hard even in easy mode though! Keypad on mac didn't help either (maybe if WASD was allowed that'd be a bit better :P). Need some skill to dodge, shoot and write!
Noxbuds
Noxbuds23 Apr 2018, 11:45
Very nice combination. The sound is pretty good, though a little loud. I like how you've linked Space Invaders (space shooter) to Scrabble. However it feels like you should be able to pickup letters while they're still blue - I accidentally placed an 'L' in the wrong place and couldn't pick it up :(.
Overall very good job:)
kromeboy
kromeboy24 Apr 2018, 02:02
nice combination! Kind of hard, but fun. I got about 4 words :-)
KayZ
KayZ24 Apr 2018, 14:27
10 words, 70 kills. That was more exhausting than I thought it would be. It's really hard to try to find words while at the same time having to stay alive. Nice combination of genres and really fun (I prefer the controls of the post compo version).
petitpois24 Apr 2018, 21:42
I really like this take on the theme, totally different mix of genres and brilliant fun. UI needs a bit of work. Thanks for this great entry :smiley:
GoZz
GoZz25 Apr 2018, 15:59
Haha this game is just impossible x) but I had so much fun playing it !
Well done mate :)
ViridianGames
ViridianGames10 May 2018, 19:12
Well, this...um...well I don't speak French so...it seems like it could have been fun but obviously I couldn't do the scrabble part.
TomekS11 May 2018, 04:16
That's a lot of work done for a compo game. Nice idea but very difficult to play :) Really solid effort.
goffmog
goffmog11 May 2018, 17:01
Felt like there could have been some bugs with the movement controls but besides that, this was a very solid and well put together game, well done! The only suggestion I would make is to figure out a way that the controls could be a little bit more intuitive.
matsoj15
matsoj1511 May 2018, 17:02
I've had a lot fun during playing this
RockhopperGames
RockhopperGames11 May 2018, 17:25
A very fun game! I experienced some problems with slowdown, and glitches resulting from that, but if you could clear that up you'd have something very promising here!

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