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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun | #32 | 4.059 | 4.059 |
| Mechanics | #32 | 4.074 | 4.074 |
| Music | #108 | 3.603 | 3.603 |
| Story | #155 | 3.029 | 3.029 |
| Sound | #173 | 3.235 | 3.235 |
| Theme | #363 | 3.132 | 3.132 |
| Aesthetics | #429 | 3.029 | 3.029 |
Ranked from 68 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How many people worked on this game total?
Just me
Did you use any existing assets? If so, list them below.
This game has no art, I used sound from freesound.org.
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Really nice game, it's amazing for people learning how to type fast! I enjoyed it a lot!
I love spreadsheets, so I was very excited when I discovered this game! I love typing games too.
I found this game really encouraging me to get good at not making typos, lest I risk taking more damage.
Great music, and intro at the start. Also, very nice interpretation of the theme!
The carpal tunnel surgery kit was great - How ironic that you gotta type it out to use it.
I really liked the slight variations of the non-alphabetical characters in the typing challenges, and I adore the purple miniboss names!
I also really like that the game lets you trade off your current run time for the opportunity to go around and heal yourself up by fighting additional creatures.
Another design choice I really liked was that you can see what creatures await in adjacent cells, so you can decide which ones you want to fight.
Fantastic entry, I really enjoyed this. Well done!
Great game, wish my school had this when they were teaching us to type!
Only suggestion would be a "quick replay" button that would skip the opening dialog, but that's super minor.
The hardest cells for me had the word "armour", which my fingers just refuse to type!
One other suggestion - consider putting the characters remaining somewhere closer to the player's sight line. I found myself rarely checking my chars and then being totally surprised when I ran out. Implementation-wise, I imagine this as a colored box that appears under the current cell. It wouldn't obscure the current cell or the neighboring cells, just give an indication how much health is remaining and maybe a better indication when health is being lost.
Hey, I know it's been a while, but I've just released the full version of the game. There are many new mechanics, and the character count is now shown in the cell highlight, right underneath the cell. Feel free to try it again!
A really clever theme implementation.
Despite not having arts, the game is aesthetically pleasing.
The correct typing sound effect and damage sound effect is nice, if there was a mistake sound that would be perfect. Wish I could lower the BGM, but I'm willing to keep listening to it.
The game is hard, you need to type really really fast to get to the final sheet. But it is very fun.
And the story is simple but good enough for the game.
Overall, great game. One of the best I have played in this jam.
Great idea, one of the better ones!
An interesting concept. Good job.
This reminds me of a game I played called The Typing of the Dead. I used that to train myself to touch type. This is a very cool game. My only beef is with using the arrow keys to move around the grid. I get what you were going for, and I'm not sure if there is really a better way to do it, but quickly switching between the arrow keys and the keyboard caused me some grief. Otherwise, I loved it!
Thanks! Alternative keybinds were suggested a lot so I added (shift+)tab/enter (like Excel) for moving around.
Great game! Definitely has a great gameplay loop. Hp was a bit confusing. And I didn't quite understand what some of the "buffs" did. Really good job, keep it up!
The adjectives don't currently do anything, and the characters are your HP. (you heal yourself and damage enemies as you type)
Meet someone named GunnarRartralala and got slapped like a pussy! Fun typing game; I liked it!
nice funny game, i really like the concept. I didn't know, what I must do, how I can type, but I'm also a type, who don't read. But as I knew what i had to do, it was fun. But for me was the gameplay too long and I stopped at level the beginning of level 11
Great concept, though my only critic would be the case sensitivity!
My hideous dyslexia meant I couldn't get very far!
Very cool, unfortunately I am not great at speed typing so I got slaughtered a lot :)
I've just released the game in full yesterday, with many new mechanics and improved graphics/sound. There are 3 different difficulties now, so I'm sure you'll find one that's right for you. The UI has also been overhauled to improve clarity. I'm sure you'll enjoy the new version a lot, so feel free to try it out!
Ha! Thats something else. I like it! To be honest, i think there is much potential to unleash. It could be a little bit hard to balance, but I enjoyed it and it`s refreshing and new :)
This one is certainly unique.
Can be also a good practice of typing speed.
Nice! Proper names got me in the end, lol. Very unique, well done!
What a unique concept! I think this is my favorite so far. It's like Mavis Beacon meets old school text adventure. :) I hope you develop it more. You may want to add difficulty levels, because I'm a fairly fast/accurate typist and I still found it really challenging. I made it to the final floor though! Great work. :)
Thanks for the comment, I've lowered the difficulty slightly in a QoL update. You can still download the jam version btw.
What a fun, unique game! I liked the balance of deciding whether to keep exploring and looking for the green cells, fighting simple enemies to gain characters, or just trying to beeline for the stairs. Certain levels really felt like I was exploring a dungeon in an RPG trying to avoid random encounters! Echoing other reviewers, I found the dropped inputs a bit frustrating, and I wish the next pressed key wouldn't automatically skip over the game over screen, but overall this was a super creative and fun game! (Also, BOB THE SCREAMER was too tough a miniboss for me!)
Exciting music! Too bad I suck at typing fast, haha! Interesting game for sure.
This is a great concept! Really fun typing game and executed well, but it sometimes does not register what I’m typing. Still, good job!
I really liked it, I see myself as a quick writer and I got to like level 15 (I think), but the problem was that when I died, I was already pressing a button, so it skipped over my score text and went to mainmenu, I must have on that moment pressed a button that took me there, so that was a bit anticlimatic :(
Great idea and Gunnar Gunnarsson AND BOB THE BUILDER can go F themselves :D Almost took me out both of the, since I wasn't ready to such a long and different text.