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Lililput by Incredible Ape

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made by Incredible Ape for LD23 (JAM)
You hvae crsah lnaded on the palnet Lililput, and are blokcing an alein siperhughway. You msut bolw all the aieln robtos aawy by tpying wodrs befroe tehy epxlode in yuor fcae! Unfartunotely the robtos are olny momnetarily disreptud and yuor tsak bcomes incraesingly dfifcult oevr tmie!

prorgamming - Josh Schonstal (@schonstal)
garphics - Ian Brock (@robrotic)
muisc/sonud - Guerin McMurry (@spamtron)

webiste - http://incredibleape.com

Mdae wtih the Filxel fromewark.

Volmue Conrtols:
0: Mtue
-: Vomule Dwon
+: Vulome Up

*UPDTAE*
We fxied a few mionr isuses and uplaoded a new vresion to Kongergate. For jugding, paly "Falsh (Origianl)". For the laetst verison, paly on Konrgegate.

Knogregate (Latset) http://kongregate.com/games/incredibleape/lililput
Tiemlapse https://vimeo.com/41070178
Postmrotem http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2012/04/27/lililput-postmrotem/
Suorce https://github.com/schonstal/tniy-wrold
Falsh (Origianl) http://schonstal.org/swf/Lililput-LD.swf
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-23/?action=preview&uid=12165

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall(Jam) 3.88 20
Audio(Jam) 3.95 17
Fun(Jam) 3.82 12
Graphics(Jam) 4.11 35
Humor(Jam) 3.89 8
Innovation(Jam) 3.57 43
Mood(Jam) 3.46 40
Theme(Jam) 2.92 141

Feedback

netguy204
24. Apr 2012 · 02:31 UTC
It's incredible how frustratingly difficult it is to type slight mutations of words that I recognize. Your game was like a research project being executed on my head!

I laughed. I emailed a link to my wife. I thought it was really clever and well done. The music and art go very well and I dig the blowing-away-the-critters animation. Very well done.

Innovation is low because, other than the very clever using-words-to-abuse-my-brain angle... it's a typing game. It's hard for me to label that innovative. Fun and hilarious? Yes! Innovative... hm.
leafo
24. Apr 2012 · 02:53 UTC
dang this game is a ton of fun!
angelk
24. Apr 2012 · 02:59 UTC
There should really be a rating for polish, you guys would always score off the charts. Lots of fun to play. I type really fast and this makes fast typing very aggravating. Thankfully, the words don't reset when you mess up. Unfortunately, the words don't let you reset until you're done typing some asinine way to spell something :)
Permanent7
24. Apr 2012 · 03:18 UTC
Really great idea. These games piss me off beyond belief even when the words are correctly spelled. Great polish though.
johnfn
24. Apr 2012 · 03:57 UTC
Whoa, very nice graphics and a funny concept. I can feel my typing skills declining already!
seagaia
24. Apr 2012 · 05:36 UTC
Cute, very well polished with graphics. Concept not particularly original but you did something interesting with it with the mispellings! Liked the music, too.
seagaia
24. Apr 2012 · 05:37 UTC
Also do you have a link to the source? I'd like to see how the letter stuff is handled.
headchant
24. Apr 2012 · 09:52 UTC
Bach?
dukope
24. Apr 2012 · 15:54 UTC
Gets quite hard quite fast, but love the music and visuals.
KevinZuhn
24. Apr 2012 · 16:28 UTC
Tihs gmae is graet! Srcabmlnig the wrods relaly mkaes tpying mroe intseretsnig, touhgh my olny comlpiant is taht soemtmies the gmae deosnt regcongize my inupt wehn I tpye fsat.
kibertoad
24. Apr 2012 · 19:21 UTC
Nothing exceptionally new, although overall polish (visual\audio presentation) deserves lots of kudos :).
FaBrito
25. Apr 2012 · 02:40 UTC
i was ready to criticize the misspell in "Knogregate" till I played it... hehe
great idea! Congratulations!!
SFX
25. Apr 2012 · 02:40 UTC
Taht wsa hadrer thna epxected.
ChrisWhitman
25. Apr 2012 · 02:42 UTC
Ha ha, very good! Typing words incorrectly is hard. Very polished.

Basically every time I died it was because I accidentally hit the wrong letter and got locked into a slow guy way in the back. Still, totally entertaining for a short game. Great art and catchy music.
30dogs
25. Apr 2012 · 03:14 UTC
Great idea! Excellent polish. I did have distinguishing the letters U/V/Y occasionally due to the font, but I still enjoyed the game.
doowttam
25. Apr 2012 · 03:28 UTC
Loved it and will be sharing it. Super polished and really felt like it messed with my brain.
KunoNoOni
25. Apr 2012 · 23:30 UTC
That was a blast!
mess110
26. Apr 2012 · 07:14 UTC
i like the twist with the words. this was amazing!
jeffz
26. Apr 2012 · 23:35 UTC
frustrating... sometimes I'd mistype the first letter of one word but be looking a different word I was trying to type.
deejorg
27. Apr 2012 · 00:31 UTC
The game is very good! I most things i like is the misspelled words, the graphics and the mood of the game! Very good job!
jwolf
27. Apr 2012 · 00:36 UTC
Outnsddngng.

Seriously though, good job.
Super Soul
27. Apr 2012 · 00:37 UTC
Love how even the details on this page are all scrambled. Great!
BNeutral
28. Apr 2012 · 00:46 UTC
Simply fantastic.
dacap
28. Apr 2012 · 01:29 UTC
I think the best entry I've played so far. Great art and interface.
PoV
28. Apr 2012 · 01:40 UTC
Haha, I loved it. Brilliantly cruel. :D
Fireblend
28. Apr 2012 · 03:14 UTC
Hah, this turned out to be way more frustrating than I thought it would be. Haha, good job!
Shadow
28. Apr 2012 · 03:36 UTC
amazing music (you can't go wrong with Bach), amazing humor, graphics, concept, everything...
Except for one thing... I didn't quite feel the theme on it. It's quite polished though, and fun as hell.
dr_soda
28. Apr 2012 · 04:03 UTC
I really don't know what to say that hasn't already been said. I think that if anything I would have liked the ability to type at enemies farther back in the ranks. It seemed like I wasn't able to target some enemies that were in the rear ranks when I tried to do so.
yoklov
28. Apr 2012 · 04:33 UTC
Extremely frustrating!

Extremely fun :)
Jiggawatt
28. Apr 2012 · 08:36 UTC
Hilarious. Does what it does really well with all the polish.
tripleVisionGames
28. Apr 2012 · 13:15 UTC
Got to give you 5 out of 5 on fun, graphics and audio. Even better on post jam version.
graytest
28. Apr 2012 · 13:33 UTC
It was a lot of fun and nice graphics.
Jigxor
28. Apr 2012 · 14:08 UTC
I really loved this entry! It was a creative idea, with great graphics, music and gameplay. It was a lot of fun, and one of the best games I've played in the jam.

Great game guys! I really enjoyed it :)
summaky
28. Apr 2012 · 14:15 UTC
Lots of (frustrating) fun!
mildmojo
29. Apr 2012 · 23:11 UTC
Nice work! I got to 3'06". Then I accidentally typed the first letter of a *huge* word that had *just* started coming on screen, and I couldn't find a way to cancel it so I had to watch as the advancing army had a field day with my base.

It's kind of like a bizarro Revenge of the Titans typing game. =) Pretty polished. The only thing I'd change would be to add a way to cancel a word so you could switch to a closer one.
🎤 Incredible Ape
30. Apr 2012 · 03:33 UTC
mildmojo: We actually addressed the issue you brought up in the Kongregate verson; you can now hit Backspace to cancel out of a word.
Catman
30. Apr 2012 · 12:34 UTC
The best game yet, it was really, really fun!!!!
Awesome music and graphics too, great job guys!
noddy2006
01. May 2012 · 09:53 UTC
Excellent! Interestingly, I found the words much easier to type if I could come up with pronunciations for them. If I could say them in my head, I could type them without thinking about them too much (some of them I could get without even looking at the spelling after I had worked out a pronunciation).
Rémi
02. May 2012 · 21:40 UTC
SO MCUH AWEOSMENSES!! Rlealy lvoe yuro geam! Gtear idae dna amzanig excuetion!!!
Mango Man
05. May 2012 · 03:29 UTC
I fucking lasted 7'39". http://imgur.com/Ehton

Best game I've seen thus far.
Mango Man
05. May 2012 · 03:42 UTC
Here's a second try. http://imgur.com/QywtQ
🎤 Incredible Ape
05. May 2012 · 05:15 UTC
Mango Man: What the... that's legendary!
ilo
07. May 2012 · 00:16 UTC
I'm terrible at these types of games. Terrific art and music though.
derosa
07. May 2012 · 02:19 UTC
Wow, really enjoyed it! Being a non-english speaker made it easier to type the words, but I can feel how hard this has to be for a native speaker :) Thanks!
Datamosh
07. May 2012 · 13:09 UTC
You don't have an idea how fun and hard this is when your natural language is not english. I'm sure some parts of my brain melted. Good game!
pythong
07. May 2012 · 17:02 UTC
i ees waht yuo ddi theer. daimmt, ti gvae em a hedachae! -:D
BenW
08. May 2012 · 01:37 UTC
Best description ever.(the game is fun too)
KevinWorkman
08. May 2012 · 02:36 UTC
This was really fun. I could see this turning into an fun typing game that kids play to learn how to type. It's interesting how accustomed to certain letter combinations my hands are. I cannot type a Q without typing a U. Great job.
AD-Edge
08. May 2012 · 08:12 UTC
Awesome game, fair tricky tho, doesnt exactly ease into it (maybe I need to practice typing more)

Either way, the graphics are spot on and the 8bit audio is good to listen to, the music really adds to the pace. A nice challenge
bombom
08. May 2012 · 15:13 UTC
Aahh! It's so fun! :)
ncannasse
09. May 2012 · 12:21 UTC
Nice :) however while using invreted wdors was a funny idea and adds a little tweak to the game, it is actually quite frustrating to play compared to the classic genre.
matthias_zarzecki
09. May 2012 · 12:24 UTC
Nice work!

Love the idea of typing "slightly wrong" words. The Bach-remix works quite nice aswell.
deejorg
09. May 2012 · 20:22 UTC
Ahhh my head is allways trying to type the correct words hehe. Nice entry, great polush overall, pretty fun too with the steep difficulty curve.
matt
10. May 2012 · 00:32 UTC
Good thing I don't know how to spell!
azurenimbus
12. May 2012 · 00:52 UTC
You mihgt or mihgt nto haev jsut rceivdee full makrs fomr me.
Ranoka
13. May 2012 · 12:13 UTC
Nice Jam entry, liked the idea and execution. Was quite hard, especially since the words were jumbled. I was trying to figure out if there was a story, but made it even harder trying to figure out what it was saying :D
Toast
13. May 2012 · 15:31 UTC
Amusing, got difficult very very quickly but I like the presentation and the novelty of mispelling words.