Office Panic! by Killing kitty
Last night you were going to print a large document, but when you were fiddling around with the settings you made a grave mistake and printed one word per page. Now you have to erase all the words, but the printer is still printing paper, flooding your desk. How many words can you erase before your worktable is completely flooded?
(this is a typing game btw)
| HTML5 (web) | https://killing-kitty.itch.io/ld-42 |
| Windows | https://killing-kitty.itch.io/ld-42 |
| Windows | https://killing-kitty.itch.io/ld-42 |
| macOS | https://killing-kitty.itch.io/ld-42 |
| Linux | https://killing-kitty.itch.io/ld-42 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/office-panic |
Ratings
| Overall | 1016th | 2.975⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 857th | 2.95⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 872th | 2.9⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 614th | 3.475⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 664th | 2.7⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 769th | 2.237⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 908th | 2.711⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 13🗳️ | 18🗨️ |
I do feel however, if you are only doing the basic type-gameplay there must be more focus on the smaller details. The words on the papers could have been placed better instead of always to the left, the papers could have been dropped down instead of teleported in, a bit more feedback on the typing (maybe having a old-school typing sound in place). Maybe even have other hazards that drop in making it all the more difficult to read the words? You could play a bit more with the space of the desk itself.
All in all, a nice game that can be pushed a lot more. Good work :)
A rather successful strategy is just banging on the keyboard. Maybe there should have been some sort of penalty for typing the wrong letter? And keep checking for letters just in the current word? No matter. It's very enjoyable as it is!
What kind of document am I printing btw? Those words would make an interesting article. ;)
Great work!
- Pros: Entertaining, short and infinite gameplay (best option for a jam game). The music in the background fits well too.
- Cons: Sometimes when you write, other words are changing too. It doesn't seem like a problem but for me it was. It's easy to write things like "Work", "Superb", "Knife", because you don't even think about these words, you know them. However, if you have words like "rk", "erb", "ife", you stop for a second thinking how to even write them.
@hauo First of all, Thanks for all the constructive feedback! Most of the issues you adressed where problems with me procastinating and then realizing I didn't have enough time for animations and word positioning and such. I chose to stick the words to the left as that made sure that the words didn't just move everytiime you typed a letter (as it would always be centered on the page), and I really do wish that I had enough time to fix that... As for adding hazards, that's a great idea! I'll think about that for the next ludum dare!
@mashas Yeah, I was having trouble with the spped of the spawner, and kinda kust went with that as it kinda felt ok, but yeah, it's hard! While playtesting a friend also told me that you could just bang on the keyboard, and mabye you can, but then you'd have to get a big *document* and smash it on the keyboard, so you dont miss any keys. Thanks for all your feedbakck, it really helps (btw, i have no idea what document that might be, but I would definately read it!)
@iluvatar thank you for the feedback, I really appreciate it! The other words changing as you are typing one word is kida a feature, both because I'm too lazy to fix it, and because it presents a completely new challenge, typing words that are missing some characters. As you say it makes you stop and think for a second, something that you don't really have time to do!
Cheers!