void Delay(Object Nuke);

by devzhrssh

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.46

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.46

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.92

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.12

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.92

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.35

This is my first entry for the Ludum Dare 50 Game Jam. It's a game where a city is about to be nuked. Your goal is to delay the nuke for as long as you can by typing the words you see in the console.

This is also the first-ever "complete" game I made in my 2 months of indie game development career. Feel free to criticize the gameplay, it is much appreciated!

How to play:
- Wait for countdown
- Start typing
- No need to press Enter

Tags: #2d, #casual, #singleplayer, #typing

Genres: puzzle

Comments16

atomicptr4 Apr 2022, 13:05

That moment when you delay a nuke by entering weird words into a chat :)... nice work!

Sam Horner4 Apr 2022, 13:39

Been ages since I played a typing game! Nice work!

kbf1234 Apr 2022, 15:10

Ok, so not a very deep game, but it was frantic and pretty fun. For a first go, not bad.
Music gets a touch grating after a bit but considering this is like a 1 minute game tops, not too big an issue.
EDIT: Oh yeah, I got a high score of around 20000 evacuees. Didn't write it down, but it was somewhere around there.

Jungle4 Apr 2022, 15:11

Typing game, it is very nice, I loved!! Fits theme perfectly. Congratulations.

ohsnapitzsean5 Apr 2022, 01:20

What a fun take on a typing game! great job, especially considering how new you are to this. keep it up

DevZhrsshauthor6 Apr 2022, 09:17

Thank you so much for all your feedback! I really appreciate it!

Lisichka6 Apr 2022, 11:33

Very cool, it reminded me of the times when my brother forced me to play similar games so that I could learn how to print quickly.

Useless Fish7 Apr 2022, 02:58

I LOVE TYPING GAMES, and I feel like you never really see typing games in these types of game jams, this game was really fun and refreshing you have my support

n00b9 Apr 2022, 01:51

This is a fun and challenging game. Good job.

jandourek9 Apr 2022, 19:29

Pretty fun! I liked the visuals and sound effects that went with it! Not sure if the lenght of the word matters, or if it delays the nuke the same (in that case it's also kinda luck based). My best is 20952. :)

DevZhrsshauthor10 Apr 2022, 07:51

@atomicptr @sam-horner @kbf123 @jungle @ohsnapitzsean @lisichka @useless-fish @n00b @jandourek and others! Thank you so much for playing and rating my game. I've finally reached my score of 20 and I'm so thankful and satisfied that I reached my goal of reaching a rating of 20. Thank you guys!

Prütty10 Apr 2022, 15:09

First of all: I'm not a fast typer, but this game was fun, it was really short, but creative design. I would have tried to scale the dropdown a bit less, so the player can play the game more. Anyways I enjoyed it, and I don't like this genre, so that got to mean, that this game is good. Am I right ;)

BurningApparatus13 Apr 2022, 20:52

Simple, fun game about typing to save the world. The game could have used a bit more juice when you successfully typed a word, but nevertheless, pretty fun.

Lpax15 Apr 2022, 15:07

Nice, I love typing games and the nuke thing is quite smart. I'd love to see a high-score system though :sweat_smile:

Necdilzor15 Apr 2022, 15:54

Oh my goodness that was stressful haha
I mean, you're delaying a nuke so it's gotta be stressful.

I tried replaying it many times but my first attempt was the best with 21k evacuees.

Only 2 months in and you're already making great games, keep it up :clap:

Sarah18 Apr 2022, 22:09

So I really like typing games, however I kept having to click back into the input box to type again. Which really breaks the flow and makes it hard to play, but I like the idea of it!

The music was a bit clunky sounding at the start though, but overall well done!