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- A fantastic typing game that made me sweat at the amount of pecking i use when typing. Great art and theme with a ridiculous but meta premise. The music also gave a sense of tension during combat sequences and the sound design adding flairs to certain comic panels was fantastic. Along with being a a typing game having the comic strip style mixed is an initiative way to incorporate the mechanics and feels like the comic book story was playing out by the letter. The GDD is also clear and concise. My only suggestion is for the future to add accessibility options for folks with color blindness on the colored font. Keep making awesome games!!
Link to your Game Design Doc on Google Drive.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1861EadbrbIoI7VC7uetcFQ_9erJhU-LAI6Kw0JchYX8/edit?usp=sharing
Have you checked that your GDD is publicly accessible ?
Yes
Is your game set to public on itch.io so we can see it?
Yes
Summarise your game!
Reincarnated as a Glock is an interactive webcomic about a girl who becomes a gun and has to work with a soldier in a post-apocalyptic world.
Type to advance the dialogue and kill enemies.
Thanks for inspiring my first solo jam! -Viv
Please explain how your game fits the theme:
While this game takes the literal approach of turning the protagonist into a weapon, it also emphasizes the player’s role by weaponizing their typing skills as the meta-narrative of a writer’s relationship with their story. The story further explores this theme by putting the player in situations where using “the weapon” has consequences.
Is there anything you'd like the judges to pay particular attention to?
This game was created in React and hosted on Vercel, so it may be browser-sensitive. If you run into issues, try playing on Chrome or directly on Vercel (link in description).
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A really clever take on the theme, and the mechanic is weirdly fun? Reminds me of old typing games from elementary school or something. I had to refresh a couple times to get it to work, but in the end I figured it out. The art is beautiful, I bet you're really proud of this game!
This game made me realize that I am horrible at typing haha
great concept! I wish the typable text however was a bit more noticeable. I found I would accidentally type the other stuff on screen from time to time (probably yet another skill issue on my behalf)
great concept!
Absolutely unique and wonderful gameplay idea.
It took me forever to get this game running though as It was case sensitive and would only work with caps lock on. not what I expected.
Hey, thanks for playing! Oh that’s odd, it shouldn’t be case sensitive (all of the text is actually lower case in the text file and all caps get converted to lower case). What browser are you using?
I tried it both on chrome and edge, full screen and non full screen.
Thanks for the feedback, I’ll investigate it. React as a tool has quite some quirks it seems. Really appreciate your input!
Such a fun idea and great execution!! I replayed and typed slow just to read the story hehe major props doing all this on your own, would love to play more if you decide to continue it!
I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for playing :)
Loved this very much. Too bad it's so short. Typing feels great. Art and sound together both create an amazing atmosphere. You've got a follow from me, definitely would love to see this continue.
Much appreciated, thank you so much!
I really enjoyed the game! The art was very nice and the way the text mechanic integrates itself into the story and the visuals is top notch. Especially feeling like I was just thrust into the situation after being reincarnated, made me feel just like the character. A very novel and well executed concept. It did take me a few tries to get it to run properly in my browser though. Would love to see how this gets concept gets expanded upon
I'm glad you were able to get it running eventually! There are definitely some known issues I hope to patch when the jam is fully over. Thanks for playing and for the feedback!
Really nice game, i had a few bugs here and there where the game wouldn't scroll further, but it fixed itself after a failed attempt. i'm not a fast writer- so i had my issues xD but thats a me problem, i really like the concept and i think it's a really cool game!
The auto-scroll does need work and some players were able to scroll manually which breaks the game, so I hear you on the bugs. Still, I'm glad you took the time to check this out and I appreciate your feedback!
This was fun and silly! I enjoyed it quite a bit. I've never played a typing game before, but I find it helped create a fun sense of immersion in the story! I wasn't really sure what I was supposed to be typing at the very beginning, so to be honest I just started typing whatever I wanted, but I figured it out pretty quickly! I know it's cliche but I'm a sucker for these reincarnated as some random object stories, there's just always something fun and silly about them, and I think this captured that pretty well!
I figured with the minimal instruction that most players would be confused about how to play, so keyboard mashing is a totally reasonable way to start. I also have a soft spot for funny isekais/literature RPGs, so I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for checking it out :)
The first time I played a game like this, I really liked it. I was just sad that when I died the game stopped working and I lost my progress.
Oh no! I'll make a note of that. The combat system seems to be occasionally buggy, which is really unfortunate with it being so far into the story. I appreciate your time and feedback and hopefully, I'll get a chance to fix this soon.
Loved the artstyle and storyline. Wasn't entirely sure how to play but overall it was an enjoyable experience.
The instructions were quite minimal, so I definitely understand. I hope you were able to play after our conversation, but regardless, I appreciate your time to check it out!
I really like this take on the theme! You did a great job and I loved the typing mechanic. Great visuals, thanks so much for making this!
Thank you for your kind words!
So, interesting taken on the theme...
Was wondering if someone was going to go the isekai route and "i got transported into another world as a weapon and now bla bla bla", but here it is xD
Did run into an issue where failing and getting the game over screen caused me to have to reset the page to go again, as my input did not work anymore (used chrome).
Other than that, well executed, could be an interesting visual novel story game.
Definitely had a lot of fun playing around with the theme for this one. Thank you for the feedback! I’ll note the issue that you faced.