Thank you for your feedback. Difficulty selection will definitely come in a later version of this game!

Thank you so much for your kind words! I definitely plan on revising this game after the competition is over.

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.

Yeah, definitely agree that the music is okay at best. I put it together in a really short amount of time and just free improved the melody an hour before the submission was due. I will definitely remake the tracks to better fit the vibe and ad actual sound effects for typing, moving and explosions when I revisit this project. Also thank you for the suggestion on the panels. I definitely could add a neon border like the lanes have and that could make it more readable too.

Thank you for your feedback. I'm glad you enjoyed it. As a lot if people struggled with the game I feel like the difficulty is in a fine place, at least for the game jam version. When I return to this game, I'll add difficulty selections/harder levels. Also, wow you beat my highscore by so much.

Thank you for your kind words, but don't sell yourself short. We all made something awesome this weekend.

Thank you for your feedback! In the panic of trying to get the game done, I forgot to account for people that don't  speak English as their primary language or are just learning English. Luckily, it works with other keyboards with Germanic letters because of how I was able to code it, but that's as far as I thought ahead for optimizing it for people that speak other languages.  I will definitely add a difficulty adjustment after the competition is over so you can enjoy it at the pace you're comfortable with.

Hi there! Press escape to quit. (I knew I forgot something in the game instructions...) I'll probably add that you can write quit to quit the application too. And yes, the lanes are like a weird fusion of guitar hero meets subway surfers. Pretty much nailed what I was going for. I'm glad to hear that it wasn't too difficult for you. I'll definitely add difficulty selections when I go back to this. Also thank god you like the hats cause that was 6 hours of stress coding/modeling/drawing that I'll never get back.

Also currently the words increase in difficulty if you are further away from the lane it's on, as well as every other time you get hit, the words increase in difficulty. It used to be that there were only linear increases in word length but I got feedback from friends that it was too hard for them. So how the difficulty works is that there's a pool of words ranging from x to y, inclusive, letters long and then the next difficulty pool will be y to z, inclusive, letters long, and so forth. So when "danger" appears there should be 7 and 6 letter words to go from one end to another, even if you only see a four letter word right next to you.  So I pretty much have what you said, except its related to lives remaining rather than time.

The spikes however currently accelerate linearly during the duration of the whole level. That acceleration may be too slow currently, and I'll probably lower the starting speed so people don't struggle as hard at the start and those that are good can have a challenge later. The spikes are currently just prefabs that spawn in at set intervals, and they are hard coded into an array that gets chosen at random. I wanted to add a better difficulty curve but I ran out of time.

Words are small selection because I wanted them all to be movement related terms and also game jam be like. For instance you have hop and skip for lanes right next to you and then you have excursion for the furthest lane at the highest difficulty. I will definitely change the terms when I update the game later.

Thank you for enjoying and play testing my game!

Thank you for your feedback! Difficulty balancing (As you can see from pretty much every comment) was a real struggle for me. I got too used to the game I was making and balanced it around me and not a stranger. I have a lot of ideas to expand on this game and I wrote the code to be pretty adaptable. So when the competition is over, I'll definitely revisit it. Current planned features are difficulty selection, in speed, spacing and words, and a larger vocabulary of words. Also I plan on implementing the coins in the game rather than just giving them at milestones. Additionally probably some palette swaps and other cosmetics.

As a language learning tool is interesting, because I feel like its hard to find addictive educational games, especially in the typing category. Epistory and Typing of the Dead are really the only games that I know of. Another comment is somebody that speaks English as a secondary language so I also have to account for people of different backgrounds that I didn't plan for when making the game.

Once again thank you for your feedback!

The word difficulty is based off the distance the player is from the word they're typing. When I first implemented this it was 1 lane away was 3-4 letters, 2 lanes 5-6, etc. That was impossible. So I toned it down to be 1 lane is 3-4 two lanes is 4-5 and so on, and every other time you get hit those words would increase by one letter. Through the hours I spent testing the game I guess I got really used to the words because I thought I found the perfect balance point. In reality I probably should've let my friends playtest it first and give me feedback. When I revisit this game I plan to add a preview system to see the next word. And by doing that I will make sure that the words are 3 letters followed by 4 then 5 for each time you get hit.

Thank you for your feedback!

You know before making this game I thought I was average at typing, I guess not, lol. Its easy to often think you're worse than you are at your own game, because you spend 72 hours with it. In hindsight, I probably should've gotten my friends to play it and base the high score off of theirs, but I decided to do one run and choose a value a little lower than my own. That way there's a milestone to reach but it wouldn't be too hard. I guess I probably should've made it 2500 instead... Thank you for your kind words!

Thank you for your feedback. I thought of this idea when making it, but didn't have the time to implement it. I feel like I took a lot of inspiration from Epistory when making this game, and they usually show up to three words ahead. It was hard enough implementing the typing system as it was in only 72 hours, but if I revisit the project, I'll definitely implement a preview system.

Yeah, I definitely toyed around with the idea, but I wanted words to be harder to type the further away they are. With how it's currently programed that's impossible. The only way I thought of implementing this is by keeping all the words at the same difficulty level. I'll definitely go back and try to implement a preview if I return to this project.

Thank you for your kind words! It has also made me very aware at how much I suck at typing as well, but at least I can write Circumnavigation in like less than 2 seconds. (Don't worry, I took that one out of the game.)

Thanks so much for the feedback! I really wanted to add animations/tweening the movement but I haven't really messed around with it before in unity and unfortunately ran out of time before I could tackle it. I definitely will revisit it in the future and make it a little easier at the start with more flushed out explanations of the controls. Thank you for playing!

I couldn't get the idea out of my head the day before the jam, and I loved playing through Epistory, and at the start being like "I suck at this" and then at the end, "I still suck at this but I'm way faster." I feel like a typing game truly has a really high skill ceiling so I think its perfect for this jam. Also yeah, I am bad at it too. My highscore is like 5768.