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Hello!

Many many years ago when I still used Yahoo messenger to communicate with distant family and friends, I remember it had a word finding game you could play together and compete for the most points, straight in the program itself. The goal was to find any word in a grid of letters in the english language horizontally, vertically and diagonally. It was a lot of fun and we played it a lot, but then eventually stopped working and was phased out. I could never really find anything similar enough that was multiplayer online, so now years later, I decided to make my own.

The difference with my game is that the goal is to find a given word instead of any word that you can find, and it's browser-based. I was thinking of making it use a dictionary API at first, but decided against it seeing as it cost quite a lot of money to use. So I hard-coded in 80 words to play in one game. Once all the words have been played, it will start again using letters you've already played.

There's three different difficulty levels to choose from: Easy, Medium and Hard. Each of the difficulties has different amount of letters on the screen. Easy has a 10x10 grid of letters while Medium has 13x13 and Hard 15x15. Each difficulty also has slightly different words in it with different lengths.

There's no count down timer involved so you're not competing against the clock, just each other. :)

The multiplayer aspect itself is based on peer-to-peer (WEBRTC), which means there's no third-party server lying around somewhere relaying game data between players, but one player creates a game and acts as the host/server and the other players connect to that host, who is also a player of course. There's a signaling server which connect players with the host.

Unfortunately, at the time of writing this, the game does not support Firefox browsers due to an incompatibility somewhere with WEBRTC and the game engine I'm using. Some older version of Firefox may work, but I have opted to block Firefox browsers completely until the problem has been fixed. Chrome browsers work perfectly though. You can also try any other browser you may have on hand as well, although I can't guarantee they will work.

Once you've created a game, you want to share that specific room name with your friends so they can connect to it through the "join game" screen. Then you have to manually accept their join request. This is just to prevent anyone from joining a game they weren't invited to by accident. You can be up to 6 players in one game. 

When you find the given word and have selected it, you win a point. That is if not anybody else manages to find it first. :D

There's no "end-goal". You play until you feel you're done. In the end, whoever has the most points win. :)

The game can be played here: https://adventureassets.itch.io/wordfind-multiplayer

Have fun playing!

Feedback and bug reports are highly welcome!

Ah yes, I understand.

Thanks for the response!

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I made a little sci-fi pack to use together with the Game Character Avatar Maker. It contains 16 elements, some different hair, clothes, accessories all of which you can see in the preview video below. These are good if you have some sci-fi characters in your game that want to have their say too in your games dialogue!

The pack works the same way as the avatar maker, as it's an illustrator file. You just copy paste one asset you like from the sci-fi pack file to the avatar maker one.

If you ave any ideas for more assets you'd like to see, feel free to let me know and I'll look into making it!

You can get this pack here: https://adventureassets.itch.io/sci-fi-add-on-pack-game-character-avatar-maker

I recently made a 2D character avatar maker based on an .ai (illustrator CS6 and up) file. It can be useful for games based on dialogues where you want a connected face for a character speaking. The style of the characters creator is more cartoony than realistic looking and has many different pre-made objects/elements to choose from which ranges from eyes, mouths, clothes, hair, facial hair, accessories etc. You can make many different types of characters like humans and aliens and you can make them happy, sad, annoyed, angry.

Everything has been grouped and labeled appropriately so it's easy to tell what it what. All you really have to do is toggle visibility on a object in a certain category you want. You can also change hair, skin and eye colors in one go instead of having to manually go in to every eye or every hair related item and change it manually.

Because it's vector based you can also export it in many different sizes without losing quality. But you should know how to use Illustrator and have a copy of it to use it. At least CS6 or up. 

I plan on adding more assets in the near future as addons, like maybe sci-fi related things, fantasy or other that can be added to a character if it's wanted.

The license is pretty generous, as you can use it to make as many characters as you want for as many commercial or personal games as you wish. The only thing you can't do is re-sell or re-distribute for free, the file, the characters made with it (as is) or the vector elements in the file. You can of course as said earlier, include your made characters in your games and promotional images/videos for your games.

Here's a video tutorial of how to use it:

The product can be found in my itch.io store here: https://adventureassets.itch.io/game-character-avatar-maker
If you have any questions or feedback or ideas, I am more than happy to hear about them! :)

Working on more objects for isometric games. Already have up a basic nature tilemap and objects in the store :)