{"id":1301,"edition":7,"categories":1,"features":0,"size":13289,"name":"Backspace Magic","authors":[{"name":"CHCH","twitter":"BlockyPasser","login":"cyw116","gh":11349207}],"description":"<p>[Instruction]\nArrow Key: Move\nEnter/Space: Choose, Cast spell\nBackspace: Backspace!</p>\n<p>[Battle Menu]\nSpell: To prepare to use a move\nShuffle: Shuffle the upcoming letters\nBook: See available spells</p>\n<p>[How to use a spell?]\ne.g.\nSpell Box content: XIXCXEAX\nYou remove the third and the fifth letter.\nSpell Box content: XICEAX\nSee the word “ICE”? That is a spell. Press Enter to cast the spell.</p>\n<p>[Background]\nWelcome to the world of magic world!</p>\n<p>You are in a trial. You must beat the boss to become officially a wizard.</p>\n<p>To cast a spell, you have to create it inside the “Spell Box”.\nInside the Spell Box, there are some random letters.\nYou cannot type anything, the only thing you can rely on is … BACKSPACE!</p>\n<p>Enjoy!</p>\n","source":"cyw116/BackspaceMagic","stars":0,"comments":[{"typ":2,"at":221363218,"author":"Kevin Whinnery","login":"kwhinnery","gh":29193,"url":"https://twilio.com/quest","twitter":"kevinwhinnery","text":"<p>It took me a minute to figure out how the game worked, but once I did, I enjoyed the concept. Mixing a word scramble puzzler and an RPG is a great concept. Overall this was a really strong entry, and one that I feel could really be cool if you kept going. Like chicken and waffles, these are two great tastes that taste great together!</p>\n<p>Worked:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adding letters to the queue in a specific order was an interesting strategic element</li>\n<li>Finding the letter to “spell a spell” was a great concept</li>\n<li>Surprising depth for such a short game</li>\n</ul>\n<p>!Worked:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hard to do in a short timeframe, but a brief tutorial with a level that is guaranteed to already have a spell inside the letters given would be nice</li>\n<li>The battles were too short for the strategic element of letter placement to kick in. Since all I needed was a few spells to beat any enemy, it didn’t matter that much which letters I added to the list, or which ones I saved for later</li>\n<li>It would be cool if the list of letters carried over between battles, so you could do some long-term planning around which letters to keep and which ones to delete</li>\n</ul>\n"},{"typ":2,"at":222563132,"author":"Joep van Duinen","url":"https://poki.com","twitter":"joepvduinen","text":"<p>Great job</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Innovative game concept!</li>\n<li>Love the abstract art</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Suggestions</p>\n<ul>\n<li>you could add some copy in-game around the ‘space to start’ and arrows to move, took me a bit to find out.</li>\n<li>Game play is a bit confusing at the beginning, removing letters to activate the spell feels like breaking the flow of the game play a bit</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Awesome work!</p>\n"},{"typ":2,"at":223701550,"author":"Jupiter Hadley","login":"Jupiter-hadley","gh":97069389,"url":"www.jupiterhadley.com","twitter":"Jupiter_Hadley","text":"<p>What a unique and lovely concept! It’s really nice.</p>\n"}],"results":{"primary":{"i":67,"n":200},"label":"Overall"}}