The Typist's Quest (7DRL)
Become a Typist and enter a dungeon to defeat some bad guys. The Typist’s Quest is a game combining roguelike with typing game, as all your actions have to be achieved using textual commands.
Controls:
- A-Z: Write commands and navigate in the menus.
- Backspace: Remove the last letter.
- Tab: Show known commands.
- Arrows up/down: increase and decrease the music volume.
Some tips:
- In case the intro is not very clear about this, the thin panel on the left is a very important one, as it shows a list of letters and the amount that you own for each of them.
- When you play a command, you have to pay each letter. If one letter is missing, the command cannot be played anymore! Be careful, especially with less frequent letters such as J, Q, X, Z...
- Press TAB to see the list of commands that you can play. The number next to the command tells how many times it can be played, considering your letters reserves. The commands that are greyed out cannot be used in the scene (for instance, it is not possible to play an attack command while in the dungeon).
- The power of a command depends on the rarity of its letters. The "SQUEEZE" command will deal a lot more damage than the "CUT" command.
- Take as many chests as possible, learn new commands and reinforce letters. Before confronting the boss, you should have at least 3 different types of attacks.
- Don't hesitate to flee. Sometimes it's better to run away and improve instead of wasting your precious letters on an enemy that will dodge, block or heal your damages.
7DRL:
This game was developed in 7 days for the 7DRL (https://7drl.com/). Everything was creaetd within the 168 hours, except:
- The Unity engine and a few additional packages (Input System, 2D IK and TextMeshPro).
- The sound effects all come from the "Game Jingles and 8-Bit Sound FX" asset created by wowsoundg on the GameDev Market. (https://www.gamedevmarket.net/asset/game-jingles-and-8bit-sound-fx-5358/)
- The text font is called Goblin Script and is available for free. (https://www.1001freefonts.com/fr/golem-script.font)
If you want to have a look at the code, it's publicly available at https://github.com/nistace/7DRL_202203
Download
Install instructions
When the archive is downloaded, extract all its content in a local directory.
- On Windows, double-click "The Typist's Quest.exe"
- On MacOS, double-click the app. Note that your mac may warn you that the app is not recognized. In such a case, you need to go to the System Security panel and allow this app.
Comments
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(I played your game for judging. But the reviews were lost => here’s what I remember of mine)
Nice entry. Actually not a typing game (you need to type but the game doesn’t measure how good you are at it).
Gameplay-wise, I think the balance is a bit hard. I tried several time and died without even running out of any of my letters, I’d just throw the most powerful attacks and still die eventually. It seemed to me the enemies just hit too hard. At the very least, I did not figure out how to come prepared to face the level 3+ foes.
That said, I loved the concept. Using letters as resources is really interesting. I liked the process of infering which spell is the best, depending of the letters it needs. There are common letters and rare letters. Short words and long words. Words that need multiple of the same letters. 26 letters might be a lot to track, though ^^
The UI is very helping at that (remaining uses, proposals of known words => I just missed the auto-complete :p)
Also the fact that the basic commands are not the same between runs is a nice touch for replayability.
I also liked the humour.
Good job :)
I like how finding items in chests and defeating enemies awards you those letters. It’s exciting to find a “Card Pack” in a chest, for example, and there’s no need to code specific effects for every item!
I found myself using the same attack a lot at the start. I know I unlock more as I defeat enemies, but I would have liked to start with 3 or 4, allowing me to pick which letters I use, and how much damage I deal.
All in all, a very cool concept : )