Keep Culture Alive by Gray Fustos

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made by Gray Fustos for Ludum Dare 46 (JAM)

Note: the game takes ~15 seconds to load in the browser

Keep culture alive by teaching the last remnants of humanity about cultural topics from your memory.

Play by typing.

Check the "About" page for an explanation of how topics are validated and how the scoring system works.

In addition to feedback, in the comments, I'd love to hear what your high score was!

Cheers.

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Ratings

Overall 1110th 3.543⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1565th 3.152⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 236th 3.87⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Theme 378th 4.065⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 2004th 2.913⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Humor 1800th 2.275⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Mood 1271th 3.37⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Given 40🗳️ 28🗨️

Feedback

Dryden
20. Apr 2020 · 23:00 UTC
You developped a realy nice backstory for it. And playing it was fun. gets your fingers moving real fast. very innovative game.
AlphaBetaSoup
20. Apr 2020 · 23:23 UTC
I like the backstory a lot. I can definitely see this being a multiplayer 'Family Feud' style game :)
n8___
20. Apr 2020 · 23:26 UTC
Nice opening and a clever main mechanic.
Lestat
20. Apr 2020 · 23:27 UTC
Interesting to say the least :) Good job!
shwany_b
21. Apr 2020 · 01:40 UTC
What a cool idea! Hint: Typing in the names of countries is a good strat ; )
BoltKey
21. Apr 2020 · 02:27 UTC
I loved the intro animation.

Interesting premise. It probably makes sense, as the most important topics are related to so many other things, and the more important topics generally just have longer Wikipedia articles. I wondered how you calculated the topic scores - at one point, I thought it was how common the word is in some dataset. But your calculation makes much more sense.

Very innovative.
PythooonUser
21. Apr 2020 · 06:32 UTC
Got a score of 2250. It was pretty rough thinking of stuff to keep :) I really liked the intro animations, using a physically accurate background story.

How did you decide on how many points each topic gets?
Sinamon
21. Apr 2020 · 07:39 UTC
I would have liked to see how the game works. But it didn't load, event after waiting 5 minutes. :(
DemKimos
21. Apr 2020 · 09:17 UTC
Cool game and lovely premise. I really felt the lack of sounds there which I think could bring the game to new heights. The points for the topics were interesting; I can only imagine how you could have accounted for anything and everything under the sun. I think a funny epilogue depending on your topics could be in order. Anyway, this is quite the interesting entry!
SanicSpeedGames
21. Apr 2020 · 09:47 UTC
I really had to think hardly. good job.
spawnie
21. Apr 2020 · 16:37 UTC
The concept is sooooo good I love it ! Nice job on the stylised graphics.
I think the game could be improved by giving the user better feedback when the topic is not accepted - the first time i thought the interface had a bug.
hwaet
27. Apr 2020 · 02:24 UTC
A very unique take on the theme and the mechanics. It's got good replay value with the more topics I think of after I run out of time.