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A jam submission

Writer's Block: Random acts of literatureView game page

You're a struggling writer, so you hired some monkeys.
Submitted by levienk, CobaltArcher81, euclideanlogic — 3 hours, 55 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Style#48342.4243.429
Enjoyment#50312.2223.143
Overall#51592.3573.333
Creativity#52022.4243.429

Ranked from 7 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
Lots and lots of monkeys!

Development Time

96 hours

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Comments

Submitted

This is a great concept for a clicker game. The "infinite monkeys on infinite typewriters" adage lends itself perfectly to this sort of game. The number of monkeys increases, and the prompts get longer, but I wonder how else the game could incorporate the theme. Maybe you could hire bigger monkeys, or maybe different types of monkeys could type longer/shorter words, etc. Of course, clickers can potentially go on forever with a million different upgrade tiers, so there's a lot of room for this game to expand.

The sprites and animations are really cute, and the upgrade descriptions are funny! While the sounds help identify when a new word appears, I kind of wish that valid words that you have already collected would be a different color, like blue or at least a darker/less saturated green.

Everything seemed to work fine for me except for the tier two upgrades. Maybe it's because I'm playing on Windows?

Submitted

I liked it! It reminds me other this other game my friend made (also about monkeys and typewriters), but you took it in a completely different direction that I feel is much more interesting, making each monkey type out a possible word, than having all monkeys combined type one word. https://pyrousha.itch.io/infinite-monkey-theorem-real
It did find some parts of the game confusing at first, such as how to piece together quotes. Also, I don't think I could buy the tier 2 upgrades for some reason.
But overall, good job! This is a really good concept executed well.

Submitted

cool art