WordGeddon by DevMerlin

You've infiltrated the Mad Scientist's lair - now it's time to stop their doomsday weapon! Unfortunately, you arrived too late - it's already armed, and about to drop. Decode "passwords" and hit a target score to stop it momentarily. Beat a set number of rounds to blow it up fully! If you take too long, the bomb will fall deeper to the planet's core.
Watch the timer to the side for your countdown, and try to solve the scrambles for words anywhere four to eight letters long. Of course, if you figure out an eight letter word, that's the highest score!
You can play in two ways currently - with the mouse, or by directly typing on the keyboard. Typing is faster, but both are possible. Clicking on the game should focus the keyboard on it.
The dictionary that WordGeddon uses is in English, with just over 12,500 eight-letter words alone. It's quite possible that some may be unfamiliar, but if so - don't worry. Just try to solve for a smaller word inside it! WordGeddon has a total dictionary of 41699 words!
Note: At the moment, the full core game loop is running! However, everything else is still on a to-do list, including some polish... and audio. More modes are planned as well, but for now - you can set the difficulty from Easy, Medium, or Hard.
This version will be left as-is now on Itch.io, while updated versions will be posted in a new spot!
| Link | https://devmerlin.itch.io/wordgeddon |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/wordgeddon |
Ratings
| Overall | 1687th | 2.938⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1590th | 2.833⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1786th | 2.417⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1835th | 2.479⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 1668th | 2.688⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 1240th | 2.25⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 1695th | 2.646⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 17🗳️ | 22🗨️ |
The Grafics look pretty nice btw =)
The words themselves were a little...strange. Some of them like "nonesuch" aren't in use as such, so it felt like the game had cheated me of the satisfaction of actually finding the 8-letter word. Maybe more curation there is required.
Overall, pretty decent.
It would be nice if you can erase letters in mid words by clicking on them.
And use simpler words on the medium difficulty...I'm not a native english speaker therefore I had a bounch of words that I ddidn't even know
**SPOILER** After clicking "Give Up", you can quickly type the word and press enter for the full points.
Some soundeffects would have been nice, maybe a little music track. Those two things can go a long way in giving the player a feel of stress.