(S)Word Forge

by persijn
Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.81
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.44
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.06
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.19
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.62
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.33
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.65


Ever wanted to create your own weapons? Not a fan of ores and bars? I got the thing for you, craft your weapons using WORDS. Yep just words.

Update 1_1 Removed "fine-tuned" added "fine tuned"

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Comments22

Schuster23 Apr 2018, 12:03
Nice typing game, I really like that the modifiers add a bit of variety to the weapon names in addition to making the weapon take longer to 'craft'
Zarkonnen
Zarkonnen23 Apr 2018, 12:07
I really like the idea of mapping harder to spell equipment to more powerful equipment. There's a fun core of an idea here.
SMILEY_4_
SMILEY_4_23 Apr 2018, 12:09
Interesting little game. Really like the background art
Marchmain23 Apr 2018, 14:04
The way the orders stack up felt like Tetris :) -- very challenging, and I'm a fast typist!

I have seen a few typing/wordsearch + crafting games on here this weekend (great minds... :smile:). I think this could make a really cool magic/enchantment system.

I did notice in the web version that I couldn't type a hyphen, so when I got to a hyphenated word I had to stop.
Persijn
Persijnauthor23 Apr 2018, 17:31
@Marchmain :scream: I never got so far that i got to a hyphen. I'll check my text file. Found it "fine-tuned" :scream_cat: thats +6. I'll make a small change to fix this :smile_cat:
Ruoyu
Ruoyu23 Apr 2018, 18:19
1. Cool art style!
2. The game mechanism can be further polished. Now I get bored too quickly :-p
Velocity724 Apr 2018, 00:26
Art style is cool. It gets harder to type
ehtd24 Apr 2018, 03:38
Nice to see another jammer making a typing game!
theslate
theslate24 Apr 2018, 14:51
Nice! An ending of some sort would have been good.
CaptainPilot
CaptainPilot24 Apr 2018, 23:02
Like the art style and concept, but not sure which two genres are being combined here
Persijn
Persijnauthor25 Apr 2018, 13:05
@CaptainPilot I was not so sure myself, i think its a shop, crafting, management and typing. I don't know if they qualify as genres. :fox:
hatchet
hatchet25 Apr 2018, 21:34
Very cool pixel art! :) I wish there was more variety in the things you type/do, and perhaps some goal you're working towards, even if it's just hinted.
sndr
sndr25 Apr 2018, 22:36
That was fun! Got to gold 80 and words stopped appearing. Not sure if that means I lost because the list on the right was full? :P Cool stuff for sure!
Persijn
Persijnauthor25 Apr 2018, 23:19
@sndr Could be you complete the game then XD I did not have time to sett an end to the game. In the current build it should never end so i think that's a bug :cry:
sndr
sndr25 Apr 2018, 23:45
@persjin Oooh, I beat it then. Yay! :)
Don't worry about it though. My winning/end screen is also a bit dodgy. xD I had to quickly work on it on the last 50 minutes or so before the end of the compo.
Shellfish Games27 Apr 2018, 11:35
Original concept (good title as well) and nice pixel art. I'd say yes, it qualifies as a combination of incompatible genres.

I had some problems with the game repeatedly not noticing characters, so with every second word or so I ran into typo problems, which was a bit frustrating as I had to force myself to type slowly to avoid this. As nobody else seems to be mentioning this it might be related to I don't know what, my system or browser maybe (Windows 7, Firefox 59 currently).
Persijn
Persijnauthor28 Apr 2018, 18:01
Thanks for the feedback @Shellfish-games. I noticed that bug myself, during testing. I think i know why that bug happens, but I'll wait until after the results before i work any more on the game.
vfqd30 Apr 2018, 12:33
Cool concept - I also noticed the missing characters (if it helps I'm running chrome on OSX).
Persijn
Persijnauthor1 May 2018, 10:42
@vfqd missing characters? You found a bug? Tell me more.
vfqd2 May 2018, 15:28
@Persijn I couldn't figure out exactly when it happened, but I think some of my keypresses were not being detected
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