Game marketing, you gotta love it. How can you make your small indie game stand out? A great game doesn't always stand on its own, so why not give it a ridiculously long name.
Why am I not putting the name in the article title like I usually do? Well, it's called "If Letters Had Pants, Would They Wear Them Like This? What About Numbers? What If They Had Small Shovels And They Dug Stuff Up To Put In A Museum?" and uh, yeah that's certainly a choice that was made. It's not the longest name of a game ever but certainly up there in the top I think.
From PUNKCAKE Délicieux it's a word-game that looks a bit like something i would have done at school, but turned into a fancy little roguelike.
Via the Steam page:
Make words that let you make words
Find words in a randomized grid of letters. The used letters will leave empty spaces, which the other letters can bridge, allowing for words that weren't possible before, over larger and larger areas. And if words aren't helping, you can also use bombs to clear up blocking letters.
Your score depends on both the length of the word, and the size of the area it spans. Make longer words over bigger areas to score more points and reach the level's goal before the timer runs out!
But it's also a roguelike?
If you manage to complete the level, you will be presented with 3 pairs of pants for 3 different letters. Pants give unique bonuses to letters, a letter can be worth more, or maybe it multiplies the whole word’s value, or maybe it gives you bombs or does other things!
And there's a museum involved??
Beneath the earth you will find objects lost to time. (and to their owners) While making words, you also dig the earth and uncover these sometimes-precious items. Find them, sell them, and expand your museum, then place the items in the museum and unlock new gameplay modifiers as the museum’s collection completes!
Plays entirely with the mouse. An average run may last 15 to 30 minutes. You may play with the English, French, or Spanish dictionary.
Look at what it did to our poor little link embed. Ridiculous. I love it.
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