Weirdo Words
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My LD51 Compo Entry is called "Weirdo Words"
I've spent my allotted time for this Compo and I'm pretty happy with the results.
High level, this is a word jumble game. Use the mixed up letters on the first line to form a word on the bottom line. You have 10 seconds to guess a word. I took some inspiration from Wordle but implementing a static set of words each day. So each day you play you will get a new set of words (changes as approximately midnight your local time). You can type, drag-drop, or simply click the letters to place them. Gain points for correct guess, lose them for incorrect guesses. A wrong guess with a letter in the correct spot awards a couple seconds of extra time. Bonus points on correct guesses for each second left on the clock.
You can see your attempts in the left pane. Underlined letters are in the correct place. If you miss a word entirely, it'll show up in italic letters.
The first word is always 3 letters but it gets progressively more difficult.
I have a huge document outlining new modes and features I want to add, so I fully expect to make this my current free time project.
As of 5 hours from deadline, I have also added sound! Not the best sounds admittedly but sound nonetheless. I've learned from previous entries and included a volume slider on the start-up screen as well. Thought about some music but alas Bosca Ceoil is the only thing I was familiar with and it is apparently broken.
https://simplepotential.com/projects/LD51/game.htm
Made entirely in HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.
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Update 10/8/22: Some of my play-testers have reported seeing the same word appear from a previous day. I do not believe this is a bug but rather a result of a small word set for the longer words in my dictionary file. The seed does appear to be working properly it just happens to be selecting the same words. I'll be increasing the size of the dictionary at a later date as well as seeing if I can prevent same words on consecutive days. If you know of any larger word files available for free, please let me know, most of the ones I've looked at will require a lot of clean-up effort.
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I've spent my allotted time for this Compo and I'm pretty happy with the results.
High level, this is a word jumble game. Use the mixed up letters on the first line to form a word on the bottom line. You have 10 seconds to guess a word. I took some inspiration from Wordle but implementing a static set of words each day. So each day you play you will get a new set of words (changes as approximately midnight your local time). You can type, drag-drop, or simply click the letters to place them. Gain points for correct guess, lose them for incorrect guesses. A wrong guess with a letter in the correct spot awards a couple seconds of extra time. Bonus points on correct guesses for each second left on the clock.
You can see your attempts in the left pane. Underlined letters are in the correct place. If you miss a word entirely, it'll show up in italic letters.
The first word is always 3 letters but it gets progressively more difficult.
I have a huge document outlining new modes and features I want to add, so I fully expect to make this my current free time project.
As of 5 hours from deadline, I have also added sound! Not the best sounds admittedly but sound nonetheless. I've learned from previous entries and included a volume slider on the start-up screen as well. Thought about some music but alas Bosca Ceoil is the only thing I was familiar with and it is apparently broken.
https://simplepotential.com/projects/LD51/game.htm
Made entirely in HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.
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Update 10/8/22: Some of my play-testers have reported seeing the same word appear from a previous day. I do not believe this is a bug but rather a result of a small word set for the longer words in my dictionary file. The seed does appear to be working properly it just happens to be selecting the same words. I'll be increasing the size of the dictionary at a later date as well as seeing if I can prevent same words on consecutive days. If you know of any larger word files available for free, please let me know, most of the ones I've looked at will require a lot of clean-up effort.
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