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A jam submission

Whack-A-KeyView game page

Whack-a-mole game played with a qwerty keyboard
Submitted by Icefish Software (@icefishsoftware) — 5 days, 17 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Fun#2263.2503.250
Presentation#3053.2783.278
Originality#3393.2783.278
Theme#7141.7501.750

Ranked from 37 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game represent "Power"?
You must wield the power of Thor's hammer to smite the moles. But be careful to use your power, pressing the wrong keys could be your end.

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Submitted

This makes all those hours of doing typing tests worth it. The games too clean

Submitted

Liked the game, full on original concept. Good overall design. 

Submitted

This could totally be a game kids play in school, takes me back! Well executed!

Submitted

Awesome, well made, keyboard typing (beaver killing) simulator, awesome!

Submitted(+1)

I like to brag about my fast typing skills, so I thought I would be a pro at this. Turns out I'm not! It was difficult, but really fun. For some reason I can't explain I really love the thumbnail for your game. Good work.

Submitted

Simple, addicting and a good game to sink a lot of time into when you're bored.
Great game :D

Submitted

Better than Mario Teaches Typing

Submitted

Pretty fun game. It's just that many people use different keyboard layouts which makes this game a lot harder.

Developer(+1)

Yeah, supporting different keyboard layouts would be the next thing to do if I were to keep working on this. Not sure I will since it was just a one-off for the jam, but the source is available on github if anyone wants to take the torch

Submitted

Super clean and fun! Felt like I was back in elementary school and made me realize how bad I type LOL. Got a score of 69

Submitted

You own me a new keyboard LOL
BTW loved the screen shake

Submitted

Simple but fun little game. I like that it uses almost the entire keyboard as controls. Nice work.

Submitted

Love it

Submitted

no way! very interesting to see how you implemented a similar idea that we had.

Submitted

Nice idea, consider making a standalone build next time, browser games run really bad for me (and likely many others), theme is questionable

Developer

haha yeah theme is questionable. I was going to make it more clear by having zeus strike the moles down with lightning but it wad too hard to animate

Submitted(+2)

fun and well presented, not sure about the theme tho, but overall good stuff

Submitted

Very fun!

71!

a lot of fun, but too hard for my dumbass 😭

Creative idea!

Submitted

Simple but a lot a fun. Good job!

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