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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Artwork | #260 | 4.466 | 4.466 |
| Enjoyment | #326 | 4.069 | 4.069 |
| Audio | #469 | 3.793 | 3.793 |
| Creativity | #873 | 4.069 | 4.069 |
| Narrative | #945 | 3.483 | 3.483 |
Ranked from 58 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
A countdown clock serves as health, as well as a bomb timer; players type to block and parry incoming attacks that are also on timers!
(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
Feel plugin by MoreMountains
Fonts by Chequered Ink
(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
Horse Horse
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The art is gorgeous and typing gameplay is very fun. The sound effects make for an engaging experience
cool idea and take on the theme, my highest score was 13, good work! :)
art is crazy good
Super cool game, loved the artwork!
Very original and fun, I like elaborate and fun art. great work!
Very cool idea! I really like the typing take on the theme, and the intro cutscene really sets up a nice atmosphere :)
Creative idea! It's a shame that the game runs so poorly (in my browser) that it doesn't even register letters when you type them too quickly
Try to enable hardware acceleration in your browser settings if you haven't! it allows your browser to use your computer's resources more effectively for running stuff like games
Great game!! I love the simplicity and the concept! Great job!!
This was a lot of fun and I like how the gameplay was tied together with the rest of the aesthetic and narrative. Great job! :)
Fun game with a great theme! I’ve always wondered what it would be like to be a literate horse. Having to decide whether to prioritize one’s own attacks or the enemies’ was interesting. I also quite liked how it seemed that different sets of riders had different sets of words. Boy can those farmhands spell.
On another note, Goldship spotted. Peace peace!
fun! I would say if you intend to polish it, you should make it so the player can't keep typing between riders
Ah, we actually discussed this!! We decided that allowing the player to type during the pause between cowboys is actually more fun, as it allows the player to continue building their combo past the point where the words move too fast to reasonably type if they time their KOs well. It rewards strategy and skill in an additional way besides just typing fast :>
I appreciate the feedback tho, and thank you for playing!!!
The art is what drew me in, it's such a well done art style and I love the cutscene at the beginning. But the gameplay is what kept me replaying it even after losing. Never would have expected a western typing game but it was done so well. It felt pretty tough but also pretty fair, like the words were quite rough at times but it never felt like I had no time to write them. I was left wanting more by the end. Also the sound effects and music were great. No complaints other than wanting more content i guess?
this was so fun! the art style was very cute and endearing, and the game felt great to play! some of the words were super evil tho lol so the game preventing players from typing incorrect letters was a life-saver <3
At first i couldn’t understand why i kept falling off even though i felt i was typing fast enough (sometimes even too fast for the game to keep up it seemed) but then i realized i was playing AS THE HORSE ! This pleased me very much, great game !
I'm glad you are pleased!!!! I hope you felt the power of the horse coursing through you as you type :)
Nice game ! Very good concept (i'm not objective, i also made a typing game for this jam haha)
You should try playing my horse prince. Somebody actually paid 25€ to put it on the play store.
I CAN'T DOWNLOAD IT ANYMORE..... I remember it vaguely back in the day when absurd phone games were so popular haha!! Maybe next year, we'll finally get to do my idea (horse visual novel)
That shi gonna be hype
Im so invested Im typing my life out, this is amazing and I love thart!!
First of all, great name , love your last answer (Horse Horse). It was such a fun experience, although I'm not into horse terminology (plus a foreigner) I did confuse some words but that's on me. The art at the beginning was so interesting, it would've been cool to have the gameplay part in that style as well, at least the top part where the horse and cowboys are. Thank you for making it when you press a wrong letter it does not get typed into the game, I think I would've lost it otherwise... You also got my bird's attention for two gameplays so that's a bonus point! Live laugh love horse
P.S. I do hope your wordle starter is horse, long live the horse
my wordle starter actually IS horse, that's so crazy
thank you for playing our gammmme I'm glad the Interstellar Overconsumption crew all came by!!! :>
I think you really got the scrolling speed down on the words!
Also "that's the spirit," that was pretty clever
How in the hell did you make typing fun? I'm not a great typer but this game unlocked something in me lmao. The parry mechanic is a very cool fun way to reward faster typing. The whole game felt very polished and the theme came together beautifully
very glad you liked the parry mechanic !!! we wanted to make it feel like a very nice opt-in bonus that increases the challenge and helps you buck off the cowboys faster (and punishes you if you get too greedy...). thank you very much for playing our game :>