The Letterpress Imp by StaNov
TLDR: Controls - arrows and spacebar
Every day, we can see typos and other little mistakes in newspapers and books. Who is responsible for them? And what would happen, if this guy has much more power and can make a really big information mess? Well, you can check that out in my game!
You are the Letterpress Imp and your quest is to do the most damage you can and get back home. You can achieve it by jumping over newspapers' paragraphs and swapping pieces of headlines. Imp is controlled by arrows and spacebar, as TLDR says. From windows application you have to quit by Alt+F4, sorry.
This entry includes:
* hand made graphics, yeeey!
* music in background, played on guitar and kazoo, yeeey!
* sung song in the end, yeeey!
* voiceacting and subtitles, yeeey!
* full 48hour footage of development (baby laugh and baby cry included, link below), yeeeeeeeeeeey!!!
Links:
* footage of development: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbsmgAZ5m-s
* development log (in Czech): https://docs.google.com/document/d/14GhpQaBk8DclGzA_u1yS2MX6mERh1U_8l1vEbcpRveQ
* soundtrack: http://games.stanov.cz/ludum-dare-33/letterpress_imp_soundtrack.zip
* trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLfB4kONUUA
* sources on GitHub: https://github.com/StaNov/Ludum-Dare-33
* thumbnail and pause-screen: http://web.archive.org/web/20190317152852im_/http://ludumdare.com/compo/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/LD33-BG-by-TechnoWolf99.png
* my personal wiki (in Czech): http://www.stanov.cz
* my facebook fanpage: http://www.facebook.com/StaNovStandaNovak
Enjoy and leave feedback!
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=== I would be super-pleased if you catch your reaction of your first-playthrough of my game on YouTube and send me the link! ===
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Every day, we can see typos and other little mistakes in newspapers and books. Who is responsible for them? And what would happen, if this guy has much more power and can make a really big information mess? Well, you can check that out in my game!
You are the Letterpress Imp and your quest is to do the most damage you can and get back home. You can achieve it by jumping over newspapers' paragraphs and swapping pieces of headlines. Imp is controlled by arrows and spacebar, as TLDR says. From windows application you have to quit by Alt+F4, sorry.
This entry includes:
* hand made graphics, yeeey!
* music in background, played on guitar and kazoo, yeeey!
* sung song in the end, yeeey!
* voiceacting and subtitles, yeeey!
* full 48hour footage of development (baby laugh and baby cry included, link below), yeeeeeeeeeeey!!!
Links:
* footage of development: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbsmgAZ5m-s
* development log (in Czech): https://docs.google.com/document/d/14GhpQaBk8DclGzA_u1yS2MX6mERh1U_8l1vEbcpRveQ
* soundtrack: http://games.stanov.cz/ludum-dare-33/letterpress_imp_soundtrack.zip
* trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLfB4kONUUA
* sources on GitHub: https://github.com/StaNov/Ludum-Dare-33
* thumbnail and pause-screen: http://web.archive.org/web/20190317152852im_/http://ludumdare.com/compo/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/LD33-BG-by-TechnoWolf99.png
* my personal wiki (in Czech): http://www.stanov.cz
* my facebook fanpage: http://www.facebook.com/StaNovStandaNovak
Enjoy and leave feedback!
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=== I would be super-pleased if you catch your reaction of your first-playthrough of my game on YouTube and send me the link! ===
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Ratings
| Coolness | 61% | 3 |
| Overall | 3.81 | 78 |
| Audio | 4.13 | 15 |
| Fun | 3.34 | 256 |
| Graphics | 3.36 | 322 |
| Humor | 4.10 | 24 |
| Innovation | 3.77 | 77 |
| Mood | 3.68 | 95 |
| Theme | 3.97 | 112 |
The complete lack of challenge is a let down though.
In the end, a fun experience, it was the first game that made me laugh here at LD.
P.S.: You really should consider being an animator or an voice actor, it would be interesting to see your scene direction and/or voice with the collaboration of some Ludumdarians who made interesting gameplay mechanics but completely lacked of charisma and overall game feel.
Perfect!
(your art was hilarious :))
P.S. Put this on Twitter :-)
it was a cute little story too. the dubbing was also great!
The idea of swapping words as a mechanic was very original but under-used as gameplay. Would love to see this idea expanded with more challenge.
Great work!
I would have liked it if the mechanism for the word swapping was more engaging, where you actually had to read and understand the sentence and not just trying to control the imp.
P.S. Thanks for playing my game and yes, I really did make the music for the game.