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Cymus1 year ago

Very interesting game! I was happy to play it for the second time. It's very nice that you actually encourage people to learn through your game. I was about to comment that automatic hints were taking the fun out of it, but then I saw that they can be turned off, so that's on me. I love when people do their own voice acting and the music is cool too. Good job :)

Oh and I'm also very curious about how you actually made it. Is it using some outside dictionary or did you have to think of all the possible connections to words? How does it know which words are connected?

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Plat1 year ago(+1)

Thanks for playing, and the constructive feedback!  I created the ~90 puzzles (i.e. the "answers" and the "clues") manually while searching Wiktionary phrases and Google 2-gram data for ideas. Since I already wrote a website that parses that data, the data was already available for me to query. I mainly focused on ambiguous words with the hope that they would have a bunch of phrases (since they'd be used in a lot of contexts).

Thankfully I didn't build the list of partially-correct words manually :D.  I wrote code that uses the 2-gram data to build the list of the top 500 strongest connections for a given clue, and builds that into the level data.   Hope that helps!  TremblingInferno had a similar question so there's a slightly longer response below in case that helps!

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