Ouch, I’m sorry. The sounds didn’t seem that loud on in my headphones, but perhaps I have the volume quite low or I’m getting old and need to check out my hearing.

I totally agree with animations and effects. Unfortunately I had to speedrun the game jam and be done after 24h, with quite a lot of interruptions for those hours. So better looks will have to wait after the jam if I feel inspired then.

Thanks for playing, the computer and game knows about 200k English words and uses a lot of regular expression searching to figure out strategies of how to best play.

I didn’t think about people with 4k screens, I really should have considered that.

That the game didn’t recognize the word PUB in left->right or top->down direction is really strange. It is in the wordlist:

… PUB PUBBED …

For game end, the game follows the logic of “when a tile can’t be placed” which happens after the player selects a tile when the board is full. Which in hind-sight might not seem the most logical solution but follows how tetris works, that it’s the out of bounds piece that ends the game.