7 Stones of Llythyren
You are a young druid about to assume his birthright - moving rocks to spell words. It's a 2D word-based puzzle game!
Created for Godot Wild Jam #79
The goal of the game is to create a seven letter word by dragging and dropping different stone letters into and at the end of existing words. Don't forget to click on the tutorial for more info and a little backstory!
Controls:
Everything is controlled using left click.
Hit Esc for the pause menu.
Backstory:
This is the first game jam for my wife and I, and our first full game together (she provided the art/sprites and I handled the programming/developing). It's a pretty simple concept but hopefully you'll enjoy playing it as much as we did making it! Thank you to everyone who takes the time to play it!
Development log
- Version 1.01 - Tutorial Fix20 hours ago
Comments
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It's pretty tricky to figure out how the game works, but once you do, it's pretty fun and the art is great!
Thank you so much! We were hoping people would stick with it, because I think it’s really fun once you get into the groove of it.
So, first, if you look at the tutorial, then every new game you start actually just reruns the tutorial, which isn't great.
Also, though: how does this game even work? For instance, one of my rows of three stones started GUB. There aren't any words that start with GUB (well, OK, "gubernatorial", but that's more than seven letters). What are you supposed to do with that row?
Or: another row started ORB. OK, I put an S after that, and hooray, it's a word. But then what? Is the only way to get a seven letter word to form a four-letter word, then add a letter to make a word, then do that two more times?
The tutorial wasn't particularly helpful in this regard. How are you supposed to play it?
...oh, I see, you can put tiles on top of other tiles. That would have been a really good thing to know (didn't the tutorial stress they can only go in blank spaces?).
The other thing is that sometimes it won't let me play a tile at all if it doesn't make a word (hence my previous question about having to keep extending), but sometimes it does. When it does, it's much easier: get a five letter word, hang an "E" off the end that doesn't make a word, wait for an R or a D.
I feel like there's definitely something good here, but it could use more clarity.
Ugh, I knew there would be something like that tutorial bug. Thank you for the heads up! Yeah, there are definitely some things that could be stressed or explained a little more clearly in the tutorial. You really have to make some non-words to set up real word and balancing your favor with that is the main challenge of the game. I'll try to add a few more details in the tutorial that explain that, and certainly something about being able to put stones on other stones.
I really appreciate the detailed comment!