Dr. Hackerman by Elemental Zeal Game Studios
Your friendly neighbourhood robot is in trouble. A notorious evil hacker wants to shut them down. They don't have long, but only Dr. Hackerman can help to keep it alive by counter-hacking the hacker.
Controls:
Typing - Type the approaching words to block the hacker.
Escape - Hit escape to pause the game.
Click - Click menu buttons to navigate.

| Youtube | https://elemental-zeal.itch.io/dr-hackerman |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/dr-hackerman |
Ratings
| Overall | 491th | 3.817⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 384th | 3.767⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1404th | 3.2⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 504th | 4⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 798th | 3.917⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 122th | 4.05⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 293th | 3.948⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 27🗳️ | 44🗨️ |
The way to start the game (typing "play") is very clever, and it help the player to get what it have to do.
Make the words rotating increase the difficulty, so it's cool. The dictionnary fit well the theme.
You should add GUI to show the current score and also make word destructions more juicy, it will help the player to feel like a very powerful hacker.
Btw, the robots dialogs make me laught.
Good job.
The music get annoying after some time! :sweat_smile:
Maybe if u reduce a bit the difficult and change the topic of the words, it could be a nice educational game, for teaching children to write! :smile:
The robot would be a nice pet for children!
At first the phrases come too slow, then it's suddenly too fast. A bit flattening of the curve would be better.
I usually like typing games (as I'm a fast touch-typer), but this was simply too random.
Not saying it wasn't fun tho :smile:
It'd be even better if it had a bit of change in the gameplay. Not just simply typing this out, but something else to happen on the screen, some other type of typing puzzle... such as a short quick burst of single letter items or syllables... those things. something to make it spicier.
But in any case, nice job.
Well, nice game! Typing games is a favorite of mine. So to me it's a great take on the theme.^^
The graphics are fun and pretty nice and the robot is kinda cute. I like the particles you made for his reactor.
The words you chose are correct, nice references (all your base are belong to us, ..) even if I've been rickrolled :p. Anyway, maybe increasing the speed a bit more quickly would add a bit to the pacing, it is starting a bit too slow and the speed up is pretty much instant.^^'
A bit more feedback when you complete a word could add to the awesome effect, like a zap visual effect.
Controls are correct and I didn't notice any bug.
I would gladly play a v2 if you make one! :)
Great job! o/