Clever concept. I could definitely imagine spending time with this game on my old Nokia.
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Tetra Glyphs's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Innovation | #25 | 3.286 | 3.286 |
| Completeness | #30 | 3.238 | 3.238 |
| Overall | #32 | 3.143 | 3.143 |
| Quality | #41 | 2.905 | 2.905 |
Ranked from 21 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Comments
Nice submission.
Even if I’m not too good with this kind of games (I’m not a native English speaker) I enjoyed playing your game.
I only wish the game shows more than one piece in advance so I can try to build longer words.
Good job on your game.
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That's my sausagesThe concept works well! I found it quite challenging, but that’s probably also because I’m not a native English speaker. I'm curious to know how did you come up with the list of possible words?
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everyday i'm fishingThanks for your question! I went ahead and found a list of English words onine. From there, I just wrote a python script that filtered for 4 letter words, and then saved the output as a JSON file. I did some manually adjusting to add missing words that some of my friends who play tested found, after.
It's not easy for me, but combining Tetris with Scrabble is a really cool idea. I like when developers try new game concepts.
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Checkmate TacticsThis game is well done - although I can't spell very fast apparently :)
It was fun - the exclamation marks helped but eventually I just had a mess of letters :D
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Crows AttackGot confused at first on what was the theme xd, but avter getting it right it was a nice game!
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Dont Fluke the FluteI liked the game, the graphics, theme and mechanics were very good. I will definitely return to the game later with more calm
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Endless climbThis is a cool little tetris-like! Spelling 4 letter words is a little tough. The slight gap between pixels is effective to sell the 90s LCD look. Music would go a long way, even if you used the classic Tetris theme. The hard lock to the glyph grid is a bit jarring, it would look much nicer if you animated each step of 8 pixels. 8 pixels is also pretty large on such a tiny screen, You could probably get away with 6 using a 5-pixel high font - that would give you a much taller chute to drop glyphs. Very cool.
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Slay The Black KnightThank you for the really thoughtful feedback. I never considered I could've gone 6x6 on the grid, that would've opened up my options considerably. I also thought there's no way I could've composed worthwhile music with a single sound channel, but a lot of the other submissions here definitely proved me wrong. Thank you again!
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