Spelling Warrior - LD19 by Krazystyle

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made by Krazystyle for LD19 (COMPO)
This is my terribly minimilistic entry. I didn't have alot of time to devote so I was going for as simple as possible. The game is spelling warrior. It's a point and click text rpg, with a twist. The battle system requires you to rely on the terrible text to speech to spell words. Good luck, and godspeed. Game requires .net 3.5, and a half pound of bacon.

Ratings

Coolness 2% 150
Overall 2.46 177
Audio 1.83 152
Community 1.50 212
Fun 2.46 162
Graphics 1.27 240
Humor 3.00 37
Innovation 3.62 34
Theme 2.08 213

Feedback

LegacyCrono
20. Dec 2010 · 04:14 UTC
I love the concept, very nice. The game is pretty difficult though. Each hit takes 1 HP from the enemy, and Microsoft Sam isn't really suitable for playing this.
Damn you, Microsoft Sam! I can't understand a word of what you're saying!
kylerhoades
20. Dec 2010 · 05:32 UTC
It was fun trying to guess what word to spell. I enjoyed playing it, even though I mostly got owned by the very first creature I came across.
toadfrogs
20. Dec 2010 · 09:46 UTC
It was a good game, although I didn't understand much of what the speaker's saying...
ranklar
21. Dec 2010 · 03:58 UTC
zip > rar
Smudge
21. Dec 2010 · 11:51 UTC
I love the idea of the game, very original. Most of the time i didn't have a problem understanding what word needed to be spelt however, I found it was too difficult. I would get most of the words right, but three incorrect and your dead. I also had the occasional problem as it was US English, not British English, but that's not bad. Overall, it get's my thumbs up of approval. (Y)
Endurion
22. Dec 2010 · 16:26 UTC
Cool idea, never seen that before.
I've no chance against the first opponent. Maybe with less words, say one or two, I might stand a chance :)
The main screen's buttons were black for me.
tonic
23. Dec 2010 · 20:02 UTC
I like the concept. But a single battle is too long/hard even when I hear most of the words correctly. I also stupidly kept pressing the "Run" button (w/o even reading it!) in battles until I realized I have to press enter. :-D The game itself could have even some game-y graphics'n'stuff and not just some GUI buttons... Maybe for v2?

Years ago we also had fun with the MS speech synthesizer and made this little demo with it... http://bit.ly/hRW1Wx
thristhart
25. Dec 2010 · 04:08 UTC
Pretty funny, actually. Some of the things it came up with.. If you'd added a way to see what the word you'd missed was, it'd actually be a pretty fun game of "try to figure out what that silly Sam is saying". As it is, I have to give it a 3/5 overall. You get higher points for a good concept!
badlydrawnrod
31. Dec 2010 · 13:26 UTC
Unable to run ... blocked by (overzealous?) Norton.