Mythalore

[Release] Dead Letters

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Okay, so this isn't the main game (GDC'12: The Death of Nick Breckon - an RPG adventure) that I was working on.

 

I've put that game on a short pause due to some much needed redesign.
In the mean time I've moved over to this game.

 

Dead Letters is a (hopefully educational) typing game in the style of duck hunt.

 

I had the idea for this game somepoint after deciding to make a quicktime based combat system and sometime before failing to learn to touch type using Mavis Beacon in middle school.

 

https://mythalore.itch.io/dead-letters

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Version 2 is up! - Now with additional game!

 

Stuff added:

A Timer which increase game difficulty

An end to the game.

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Version 3 up! - Now with better art!

Update 3 - New Graphix.gif

 

Stuff added:

New background art

Stuff fixed:

Menu button not responding

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Version 5 is now up - now with sounds and juice (only half of which can be seen in this gif)!

Missed announcing version 4 due to the holidays.

 

Update-5-Juice.gif

 

Stuff added:

Gun Reticle

Sound Effects

MusicAdd 'Juice' Animations

Change to FMOD Audio Engine

Stuff fixed:

Animation Timings

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The gun sound effect in this is great, I definitely felt like I was straight murdering those letters.

 

You've probably already considered this, but having multiple letters going could help with waiting for the gap between letters and also bring the movement of the reticle into play, like you could miss letters if you didn't do them in the correct order because the reticle doesn't move quickly enough.  Maybe you could spell words with that?  I don't know.

 

Pretty good though!

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This game is phenomenal. I used to play the hell out of typing games like this in the basement of my catholic middle school. I would have loved one with an absurd gun sound.

Great gameplay, great visual design, great contrast between the gun and the calming AV tone.

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