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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #2 | 4.720 | 4.720 |
| Appeal | #15 | 4.200 | 4.200 |
| Fun | #42 | 3.960 | 3.960 |
| Overall | #47 | 3.912 | 3.912 |
| Theme | #121 | 3.520 | 3.520 |
| Silliness | #228 | 3.160 | 3.160 |
Ranked from 25 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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You play as a word wizard going to town for a party. And needing to go to town to prepare for it.
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Very fun and chill. I really enjoy the style, the flavour text shows a great attention to detail too!
I love this concept. Personally I would think about showing your letters on the main screen. Realy good, clever game
Thank you ! Yeah, this is something that multiple testers have mentioned. It was hard to detect while playtesting myself since I already knew where the letters needed to go, but I'll think about this for next games!
This is such a clever, creative puzzle concept, and the minimalistic visual design is fantastic. It was very satisfying to work through the world you built here, but it did take some thinking and trial/error to get to the intended solutions. With some QoL adjustments, this could be a really wonderful full game if you came back to expand on it!
Thanks a lot! I am glad you enjoyed it
Really creative game, but the tutorial difficulty is a little too hard! When designing the game, did you create the beginning, middle, or end first? Something I noticed was that the middle of the game was by far the easiest and I'm wondering if you planned it out before.
This is the first puzzle game from this jam that i have played, it was soo good, taking letters from one word and adding them to another is a great concept!
Thank you :D !
Wow that's a really good idea for a game well done!
Thank you :D !
This is such a unique concept, i love it! and the visual side is also very appealing
Thank you! I'm glad you liked the visual since you seem to be a very talented artist :) !
This game is super creative! I love word puzzles so this was right up my alley. The word puzzles were really satisfying to solve. It was really helpful, that each thing gave a hint to the solution, if one interatcted with them, with this feature the difficulty was perfect. I had to think about the puzzles and had some "aha moments", but never felt completly stuck. Also I love the idea that everything in the world is made out of words. Great game I would play more of this!
Thank you very much ! I'm glad the hints helped you. I was afraid they were too vague or that the player would not interact with this aspect. I'm really happy that you mentioned "aha" moment because it is really what I was going for for some of the words.
That was a long and fun play. Proud enough that I finished it that I putting the complete screen in the message! Probably my favorite concept in the jam. Scrabble but I'm in a world and changing stuff is such a fantastic idea. I love the vibe and that there is a clear goal which I have to puzzle through. The backtracking into the original hut was a great addition and good job making everything useful. No wasted words there is very important since it would be confusing.
WASD absolutely should not have been included in the movement. That was very frustrating for me personally. If you were afraid of people with 60% keyboards not having arrow keys you could have it as a checkbox to enable WASD or change the movement system to be a click system with the mouse so he goes towards where I click (like project zomboid for example). That would even let you get rid of space entirely as you would just click the thing you wanted to interact with.
The letters that I own should be seen on the HUD without clicking tab imo. Like on one of the sides of the screen in a HUD element possibly semi transparent would be good. they are just too important for me to have to look at a letter and go back in forth on tabbing in and out. As the main mechanic of the game, it should be very accessible like a health bar, or even more analogous, an inventory hotbar. Honestly, the quests could be moved to the HUD as well seeing as having more elements wouldn't be an issue in this game since there isn't much happening on the corners of the screen anyways.
The tutorial is a bit misleading for some. I showed this to a friend who isn't super good at games because I liked the concept a lot and he was confused by 2 things. First, he thought you could only add/remove from the start of a word (chair->hair, lock->clock shown in the tutorial). Secondly, he didn't understand what could be changed and what couldn't. This was also a problem with me as it took a while for me to figure out I could mess with the rivers/lake because I assumed it was like the trees where it was impassable. Both of those mechanical misunderstandings could be fixed by tutorial tweaks and making unchangeable objects unique in some way. Much like how items with borders are ones with colliders, unchangeable words could be different color, font, or transparency to make it more obvious. I believe there should also be something to distinguish words that have not been touched by the player yet. That way you can do some process of elimination like "okay I haven't touched bed yet so there must be something there" which is exactly what I did to win but not everyone will put the mental effort into remembering which words have been messed with.
Lastly, the goal words are a bit too out there in my opinion. Like some of those words very few people know and those who do know them would never think of them first. The game itself takes enough braincells. This unfortunately caused almost everyone playing this game by going to a word, pressing tab, and then clicking all the buttons they have hoping it would make something instead of the, supposedly, intended loop of "Oh I need a transport", "bus is a transport", "this is close to bus", "I need this letter to make it bus", and loop. This could be fixed by making the words really obvious. But I think the more interesting way to fix it would be by putting underscores or another symbol in the spot of words where a letter must be added. That makes it more like wordle where you'd be like "I need something to put on my head; lets see, I have an n and 4 words that have underscores on the map; nlock, no, bnead, no, crown, yes!".
I don't want all my criticism to make you feel down or make you think that this game is worse than other games I've given less criticism to. This is top 3 games for me this jam so far and I love the concept. The fact I have so much to say is a testament to how interested I was in it.
Thank you so much for this feedback! It makes me really happy to know that someone enjoyed the game, made it all the way to the end, and even went as far as showing it to someone else. 😄
You are absolutely right: the letter should definitely remain visible at all times. I was hesitant to add a transparent HUD because I was worried it would clash with the “written on paper” aesthetic, but I think that would definitely be worth the tradeoff.
The tutorial also clearly needs improvement. It probably should not rely on a first letter change word, so it is immediately clear that you can remove and place letters anywhere in the words.
As for the objectives being too vague and some words being difficult to identify, I definitely fell into the trap of “I made the puzzle, so it feels obvious to me.” The game probably would have been more fun and accessible with clearer word goals. I did not want to explicitly show that the river and the lake could be transformed, because I was hoping for that kind of “aha!” moment — where the solution has been right in front of you the whole time. Those are some of my favorite moments in puzzle games. But there is probably a better way to hint that this is possible without making it too obscure.
About the goal word being a bit out there, the issue is that it is actually quite hard to find words that differ by only one letter and still fit the setting. I had to go through at least a thousand words like that just to make this game 😅, and not being a native English speaker did not help when it came to judging whether some words felt common or obscure.
I had not considered the “_clock” idea, but it is definitely a good one. The game would probably feel smoother and less overwhelming with something like that. Maybe a nice way to implement it would be to give the player an item with limited charges that can provide hints for words of their choice.
Thank you again for taking the time to play through the whole game and write such thoughtful feedback. It really motivates me to keep making games.
I like it :) It's really creative but a bit hard to understand for my squishy little brain :P
I probably went a bit too far on the puzzles' difficulty; it seems it would have been more fun with a bit more accessible ones.
I love the concept of this game
GOOD JOB!
This was really nice but MAN did I have a skill issue.
Were you stuck on a certain objective or just the game generally?
Very good concept, I really liked it :>
Thanky you :) !
at first i wasn't sure what i needed to do and sometimes the font is hard to read but otherwise i really like this game, its super creative and the gameplay is super cool great job :)
Thanks ! The tutorial could definitely have been better. I'll work on that next time.
Awesome concept! Had trouble reading the font at times, but I liked the style!
Thanks! I knew it was an issue, but it was kind of intended for the game's artistic direction, so I chose to keep it, but maybe an option to change it would have been nice.
I really liked it! I was solving puzzles all the time just by moving around, maybe you'd want to force arrow keys on the player? Not that it made it too easy though, I still had to screw around quite a bit:)
Thank you for the feedback ! Yeah, it would be better I was just afraid that some people with tiny keyboards would not have ones.
That's a good point, I didn't think of that!
Very cool and creative concept!
Thanks !
Very funny . Remind of Baba is you!
Thanks !
Very interesting concept!
Thank you very much !