Typey Boi The Game
Dark forces infest the land. Use the power of words to defeat them!
- Real-time graphical text adventure
- Typing-based combat
- Other cool stuff including chromatic aberration and an adaptive soundtrack
I think I made a pretty polished game this time, although it's too short and limited. I might develop this further into like an open-world RPG type thing, not sure. I really like the combat system I came up with, but I could add more stuff like status effects. Definitely would add different types of enemies and multiple-enemy battles.
Genres: adventure
Comments9
NicMagnier23 Apr 2018, 20:31
Really neat and very well done.
I love the art style which is minimalist and extremely well done.
the gameplay is good and I enjoyed it but my issue is that on some keyboard to do an apostrophe (which is use in multiple sentence in the game) you have to press shift which switch to defence mode. I guess we can say this is the hard mode.
It's also a shame that the puzzles repeat themselves.
But overall this is really excellent
I love the art style which is minimalist and extremely well done.
the gameplay is good and I enjoyed it but my issue is that on some keyboard to do an apostrophe (which is use in multiple sentence in the game) you have to press shift which switch to defence mode. I guess we can say this is the hard mode.
It's also a shame that the puzzles repeat themselves.
But overall this is really excellent
NicMagnier23 Apr 2018, 20:32
oh! another small improvement, it would be nice to be able to start typing even when the character move between scenes.
BSanchez23 Apr 2018, 22:26
Graphics are really neat, and I must confess I really love text-based adventures, but the windows build kinda don't work. I'me stuck with the 'type "help"' message, and all my character can do when I type it is raise it's arms, not giving me help at all
HKoisumi24 Apr 2018, 00:46
Freaking amazing! Excelent work, wanna check ours too??
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DragonZBW24 Apr 2018, 17:09
@BSanchez @Keithdae I’ll check my code when I get home this afternoon. It might have to do with pragma strict. If you’ve got any ideas about why this might not work on windows, please tell me.
```
public GameObject helpText;
void Start() {
StartCoroutine(UpdateC());
}
IEnumerator UpdateC() {
while(true) {
string inputString = “”;
while(!Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Return)) {
inputString += Input.inputString;
yield return null;
}
string inpt = inputString.ToLower().Replace(“\n”,”“).Replace(“ “,””);
if(inpt == “help”) {
helpText.SetActive(true);
}
yield return null;
}
}
```
```
public GameObject helpText;
void Start() {
StartCoroutine(UpdateC());
}
IEnumerator UpdateC() {
while(true) {
string inputString = “”;
while(!Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Return)) {
inputString += Input.inputString;
yield return null;
}
string inpt = inputString.ToLower().Replace(“\n”,”“).Replace(“ “,””);
if(inpt == “help”) {
helpText.SetActive(true);
}
yield return null;
}
}
```
Keithdae24 Apr 2018, 17:14
@DragonZBW Maybe change .Replace(“\n”,”“) with .Replace(“\\\n”,”“), I think I read something about that at some point. Or add a .Replace(“\r”,”“) since on windows the line returns are \r\n if I recall correctly
- Pros: Cool graphics and aesthetics. Game feel is abundant in the minor details. Fighting sequence is immersing, with the urgent switching mechanics that's mostly well-balanced which really push the enjoyment level to the max.
- Cons: Very little to complain about here. Only how long the walking takes between screens, and the choice of words while relevant doesn't really need to be, since it repeats too much.
Conclusion: The winner is... One typey boi.