Deepr is a mock-up social network about profoundness. Inspired by inspirational quotes, we set out to use crowd intelligence to determine the deepest of all quotes!
✨*Live, Love, Ludum*✨
After setting a username, you can start going deep by editing quotes, swapping out their words. If you're happy with your achieved depth, you can submit, and then start rating the profound creations of others.
✨*The true challenge is not to conquer the frontend, but to conquer yourself*✨
We will publish the quotes with the highest rating once the jam is over. If you want to be notified, use your Ludum Dare username in deepr!
What a fantastic idea and flawlessy executed! Well done, or in the eternal words of deepr: "I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past."
Hilarious! This satire is a really fantastic idea. I'm worried that I will end up spamming your site with the most absurd quotes I can possibly generate.
Of course we would consider rating your game, if you actually tried ours and didn't just comment without playing it 😉 (we can see that you didn't leave any posts)
Please don't game the system, we're all just trying to have a good time here, and after all, you can't win anything :)
Wow, generating deep content really is addicting. I spent about an hour with your game now 😅
Do you know InspiroBot? I feel like I am its algorithm now 🤖. And I spent hours on that site too. Maybe I'm susceptible to pseudo profoundness. Profauxndness?
I love your idea, I love your implementation. The design is super clean. deepr deserseves to be seen and used. Do you plan to support the site after Ludum Dare? It has the potential to become really big.
My only gripe is that sometimes you _just need that one word_ after figuring out all the rest, but it's not there. Though that is part of the whole experience of course. Oh, and is there a way to see random posts? Or only ever the newest ones and the ones with the highest score? Because I kind of feel like that would massively favor the posts on the leaderboard.
Anyway. Amazing idea, amazing implementation. Congratulations on creating a game that will linger on the mind long after "gamier" games are forgotten! I already spread it to circles beyond Ludum Dare. Thank you ❤
Currently I just try out as many games as possible but I really can see myself come back and make some really awesome (stupid) inspirational quotes. It's so much fun and I like your interpretation of the theme.
Thanks @verbante The words are generated by a language model that has basically learned to predict the next word in a sentence. It learned this on many movie subtitles, as they are freely available on opensubtitles.org. The model then generated the 10 most plausible words at any position on a set of quotes that we got from another source, and these are then the alternatives you are able to select on screen. If you are more curious about the single components, you can check out the credits here: https://godeepr.herokuapp.com/credits/
Changing the second word in a quote makes the list of words turn white when I hover over them with the mouse. It turns out that about 1 in 10 times I open the list, this happens. I am on Firefox on Windows.
What a cool idea, I love how these game jams bring out these little pearls of creativity, not only the creative game idea, even making your players have to get creative in this case :-)
Don't get me wrong, I love my jump 'n' runs and tetris clones as much as the next person but what I really look forward to in every LD, aside from making a game myself which is the most fun, is this kind of unconventional break with traditional game making. I just read your comment above about the inner workings of your algorithm, very nice technicalities, we are all at least partly programmers here. Really cool!
I like the way you integrate the game with the community. Letting others rate your quotes is a good way to incentivise putting the effort in to really find a funny combination in the large space of possible sentences that each quote presents.
An excellent idea and possibly the best take on the theme I have seen in the whole jam ! It really captured the essence of what social networks can feel like sometimes while allowing you to be deep to your heart's content. Great entry !
Strengths : - A Social Network ! - In a Ludum Dare ! - Is this the real life ? - (Woops this is not Deepr, cannot allow myself to be deep anymore)
Possible improvements : - Real social media integration for the giggles ?
This is such a great concept, well made. However, I don't think it really fits the theme, even though it plays really well on an alternate definition of "deep," because there's no process where you go "deeper." Honestly, that's just nitpicking, and "theme" is the category that matters least to me when scoring a game.
I really loved the idea and execution, and I think that if it were expanded in its current form, it could be a wonderful persistent project.
I'd love to see this connected with Facebook or Twitter accounts, with the ability to share to those platforms. I imagine it could be very successful.
The core mechanic of selecting words to create new quotes could also make for a great "Jackbox" style party game, if it were scoped to a small group, timed format. There's lot of potential here.
(I also had that bug where items would sometimes disappear on Firefox, but webdev is a hellscape so it didn't bother me or impact my enjoyment.)
Really great concept an dunique take on the them, it's super well executed and I genuinely had fun searching a silly quote and reading other people's post ^^
Really unique idea! It's different than anything else I've played so far in this jam. It's an interesting take on the theme, I'm not sure it fits that well but it's great that you're thinking outside the box. Great work!
this something else 1st i thought u could manually write quotes in there and i have a bunch of those stacked away so i rubbed my hands there for a second
then i realized there was a system for making quotes "by hand" (--> no copypaste) so I did this -->
well thanks for making this really broadens the scope of what you can possibly achieve in a game jam in 72h also I checked a few of the quotes people left on there - there's some pretty cunning ones!
This was really funny and an original twist of the theme! At first I was worried I had to come with something on my own, but I really like the way you did it!
Great Job, the randomness is the best part. I like being able to edit posts, making it limited to what I can choose increases the fun. Very Addictive gameplay.
What a creative idea! Definitely a bit tricky to find something that even makes sense, but I guess that's also the fun part :D Only suggestion is adding some options to pick from for the picutre as well
As someone who used to use InspiroBot on a nearly daily basis, I really love getting that human element in there to screw things up to perfection :'D Awesome idea!
This was… Pretty unexpected. So I can just react by a not-so-deep post : "Expect the unexpected, and you'll never be surprised. Don't know if it's good or a bad news"
Great gods of Ludum Dare, if there is any, please make this game a top 10, i love the idea, i love the mechanics and the social platform feeling of it, i rated it 5/5, please, thank you, amen. 🙏
This is a very original concept! I will admit, I don't use social media and I don't read inspirational quotes. But I did have a lot of fun creating nonsensical things like this:
So I say, well done! Really a unique idea and a hilarious take on the theme.
Now this is pretty darn genius. Let's see what random poorly-rated trash Peace Of Cake Games can come up with other than "A politician may find us a couple of kings, but we can't depend on them." Honestly I don't think that one is *too* bad, but there are certainly better ones....
Feel confused. Is that really a game? Or a social-meh mockery? Do we need to make sense of quotations, or just make them darn silly? The actual question is - why. Maybe, it's the writer in me, but I'd rather write my own lines. So, the idea seems cool, but still, not much playing there.
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Of course we would consider rating your game, if you actually tried ours and didn't just comment without playing it 😉 (we can see that you didn't leave any posts)
Please don't game the system, we're all just trying to have a good time here, and after all, you can't win anything :)
Do you know InspiroBot? I feel like I am its algorithm now 🤖. And I spent hours on that site too. Maybe I'm susceptible to pseudo profoundness. Profauxndness?
I love your idea, I love your implementation. The design is super clean. deepr deserseves to be seen and used. Do you plan to support the site after Ludum Dare? It has the potential to become really big.
My only gripe is that sometimes you _just need that one word_ after figuring out all the rest, but it's not there. Though that is part of the whole experience of course. Oh, and is there a way to see random posts? Or only ever the newest ones and the ones with the highest score? Because I kind of feel like that would massively favor the posts on the leaderboard.
Anyway. Amazing idea, amazing implementation. Congratulations on creating a game that will linger on the mind long after "gamier" games are forgotten! I already spread it to circles beyond Ludum Dare. Thank you ❤
sorry 😄
What a cool idea, I love how these game jams bring out these little pearls of creativity, not only the creative game idea, even making your players have to get creative in this case :-)
Don't get me wrong, I love my jump 'n' runs and tetris clones as much as the next person but what I really look forward to in every LD, aside from making a game myself which is the most fun, is this kind of unconventional break with traditional game making. I just read your comment above about the inner workings of your algorithm, very nice technicalities, we are all at least partly programmers here. Really cool!
I like the way you integrate the game with the community. Letting others rate your quotes is a good way to incentivise putting the effort in to really find a funny combination in the large space of possible sentences that each quote presents.
A really cool entry, 5/5 in the Audio rating ;-)
Strengths :
- A Social Network !
- In a Ludum Dare !
- Is this the real life ?
- (Woops this is not Deepr, cannot allow myself to be deep anymore)
Possible improvements :
- Real social media integration for the giggles ?
Congratulations !
I really loved the idea and execution, and I think that if it were expanded in its current form, it could be a wonderful persistent project.
I'd love to see this connected with Facebook or Twitter accounts, with the ability to share to those platforms. I imagine it could be very successful.
The core mechanic of selecting words to create new quotes could also make for a great "Jackbox" style party game, if it were scoped to a small group, timed format. There's lot of potential here.
(I also had that bug where items would sometimes disappear on Firefox, but webdev is a hellscape so it didn't bother me or impact my enjoyment.)
I'm looking forward to see the results :)
1st i thought u could manually write quotes in there
and i have a bunch of those stacked away
so i rubbed my hands there for a second
then i realized there was a system for making quotes "by hand" (--> no copypaste)
so I did this -->
and i gotta say, I'm mighty proud of it!
reminds me of tweets from this dude
https://twitter.com/keatonpatti/status/1148240819796807681
i recommend 'em they're really entertainimg imo :D
well thanks for making this
really broadens the scope of what you can possibly achieve in a game jam in 72h
also I checked a few of the quotes people left on there - there's some pretty cunning ones!
Nicely done! Take care 😀
"All babies were born."
"Expect the unexpected, and you'll never be surprised. Don't know if it's good or a bad news"
So I say, well done! Really a unique idea and a hilarious take on the theme.