#126209 - bob_fossil - Sat Apr 21, 2007 12:47 am
A DS version of a popular word jumbling game. Can you unscramble the given letters to make as many words as possible and reveal the mystery word?
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What's new in version 1.00
- New game modes - Time Attack A, Time Attack B and Endless.
- New graphics from DarkanX.
- New font.
- Sound effects.
- Much faster / accurate word generation.
- Multiple difficulty levels.
http://magnetic-inc.myzen.co.uk/wordwrap-100.zip
#126406 - Sweater Fish Deluxe - Mon Apr 23, 2007 12:17 am
Very cool. This is one of my favorite games, one of the handful of homebrews I keep on the main game menu of my G6 flash cart. I like the new graphics from DarkanX base don the screenshots.
Downloading it now.
...word is bondage...
#126474 - justatest - Mon Apr 23, 2007 3:20 pm
Cool game! Actually got quite addictive after a while :-D
Ideas:
* DS-DS/Wifi play
* More sound effects (a light click when you touch letters)
* Turn down the background scribble a bit... it sometimes blends in with the text
#126540 - Herr Bohne - Tue Apr 24, 2007 8:39 am
Yeah, very cool game!!
Is it possible to feed that game with an own word library in another (german) language?
#126632 - wormy - Wed Apr 25, 2007 5:49 am
I really enjoy the game and the new graphics are a plus!
Suggestions:
*Show the answers after the round (some of us suck at these games and use it to learn)
*In Time Attack A, after I unlock the longest word I can advance to the next stage but when time runs out, I automatically go back to menu. It should advance me to the next stage since I achieved the goal of getting the correct word. Maybe it's supposed to do that but I found a bug?
Using a G6 running version 1.00.
#126633 - Banzai8th - Wed Apr 25, 2007 6:53 am
Couple ideas;
-Tapping the checked off letter on the bottom unchecks it and removes it from the word you're currently building.
-Have a button that clears all the letters in the word you're building without wrapping the letters.
-In endless mode have a timer that counts up, so you can see just how long it took you to find all the words. If you feel that adds too much pressure to find words (it is supposed to be relaxed gameplay) maybe have it only display the end time after you've found all the words, before it loads the next puzzle.
-In time attack A, completing any other word other than the longest word required to continue should give you more time, so you can bide yourself some more time while trying to work it out. Maybe like 5 seconds per letter in every word you find?
#126653 - bob_fossil - Wed Apr 25, 2007 5:40 pm
| Herr Bohne wrote: |
Yeah, very cool game!!
Is it possible to feed that game with an own word library in another (german) language? |
Someone else asked for this, so I've cobbled something together.
http://magnetic-inc.myzen.co.uk/wordwrap-100d.zip
Note that that word list is about a quarter of the size of English list and that umlauts and the B character are replaced with ae ue and ss. I'd like some feedback on the quality of the words generated.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed feedback and suggestions. Unlocking the longest word doesn't move you onto the next level as I thought that's how it worked on the original PC version. Hmmm....
#127874 - zAlbee - Sun May 06, 2007 12:57 am
Hey, this game is awesome. I find myself playing it all the time, when I want a quick game to play, much faster than loading up Brain Age or finding opponents on WFC... =P. I have to agree with all of Banzai8th's and wormy's comments above ("Clear" button, answers, etc.).
I also have some new suggestions:
- The Wrap button shouldn't erase the letters. It should leave the letters that you've selected and only wrap the others. I used this strategy all the time in the PC game TextTwist, to find matches for prefixes/suffixes like "-ing" or "re-".
- Some words have more than one longest word. Can you make it so finding any of the longest words will unlock the next level (in game A)? Currently you have to find the "right" longest word.
- There seems to be a rare bug where the game will freeze at the "Thinking" screen indefinitely. The last time this happened, I was plaiying Time Attack A, and found the longest word ("zipped"), then continued to find the rest of the words (there weren't very many). I got the "you've found all the words! tap to continue" screen, then tapped and got stuck at the "Thinking" screen. I waited a good 5-10 minutes to make sure it wasn't just taking a long time to compute.
#127905 - Banzai8th - Sun May 06, 2007 12:43 pm
After playing this game for a while, I came to notice that it accepts abbreviations (several I found include 'doc' and 'sub'), which I personally don't think should be allowed. It is also unclear as to when plural versions of words are allowed, it seems to be arbitrary. I like the inclusion of Old-English words, but I think there were some missing (including I believe, 'olde'). And then there were regular words that were downright missing (only one I can remember is 'meld').
I don't know where you got your world list from, and I know it would be a huge pain to go through and correct any changes you might wish to make to it, but maybe an entirely different source for acceptable words could be found.
I also noticed that it was possible to 'cheat' a little bit. The list of found words at the top are in alphabetical order, from least letters in the word to most. So you can sometimes know what letter(s) a word starts with that you have not found yet. I do not know if this was intentional or not.
I agree with zAlbee's ideas, and I have also encountered that same freeze, but I don't recall what mode I was in when it happened, just that it was after solving a wrap and moving on to the next.
#127912 - tepples - Sun May 06, 2007 2:54 pm
| Banzai8th wrote: |
| After playing this game for a while, I came to notice that it accepts abbreviations (several I found include 'doc' and 'sub'), which I personally don't think should be allowed. |
"Sub" is slang for a submarine boat, a submarine sandwich, a substitute teacher, or a foreign film using subtitles.
| Quote: |
| It is also unclear as to when plural versions of words are allowed, it seems to be arbitrary. I like the inclusion of Old-English words, but I think there were some missing (including I believe, 'olde'). |
Nit: Shakespeare and 1611 Bible are early Modern English, not Old English. Old English is a lot more like German. Or does the word list actually include Old English?
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#127923 - bob_fossil - Sun May 06, 2007 5:55 pm
OK, I've made a beta 1.01 available at:
http://magnetic-inc.myzen.co.uk/wordwrap-beta060507.zip
It has some debugging code in it to try and get to the bottom of the freezing during thinking bug. On the top screen you should see some numbers progress across the bottom line, e.g. '01234'. If it freezes, make a note of this number and let me know. I've made some changes to fix some possible freezes, so we'll see I guess. I've made a lot of internal changes to the code so I may have inadvertently broken some other things too.
Other things fixed in this version:
- In Time Attack A mode, if you unlock the level you are now advanced to the next stage when your time runs out.
- In Time Attack modes, you now get some time back depending on the length of word you submitted.
- You can now tap a checked out letter to remove it from the current word.
- Low time warning sounds weren't being played after you ran out of time and started a new game.
As regards the word list. Well it's not perfect but it does the job. I'm happy to add words that are missing but I don't fancy compiling a new word list. If someone wants to do this then fine. Make sure each word is on separate line, is in lower case and send it to me.
#127953 - Banzai8th - Sun May 06, 2007 11:00 pm
| tepples wrote: |
| "Sub" is slang for... |
Then that brings up the question of whether slang should be allowed.
| tepples wrote: |
| Nit: Shakespeare and 1611 Bible are... |
Sorry, yes, I meant early modern English.
#128043 - Sweater Fish Deluxe - Tue May 08, 2007 12:32 am
Have you looked at the wordlists available at http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/ ? Another word puzzle homebrew on the DS, Word Up!, uses one of the 12dicts lists (I'm not sure which one, but I think maybe the 2of12inf list) and I've been pretty impressed by it in playing the game. Of course, the differences in gameplay between the two games mean that wordlist problems would be more noticeable in Word Wrap than in Word Up!, but at the same time the quality of the wordlist is more important in your game than in Superpanic's, too.
...word is bondage...
#128058 - zAlbee - Tue May 08, 2007 5:47 am
| bob_fossil wrote: |
| OK, I've made a beta 1.01 available |
Nice! Trying it now.
Haven't gotten it to freeze at all. But I noticed some funny bugs =). Such as "find %d words to go to the next level" appearing in Time Attack B, after about 5 levels in =D. The actual number was supposed to be 8 (maybe because only 8 words were possible). This didn't affect gameplay at all.
Also in easy (6-letter) difficulty, you can click the space to the right of the 6th letter, and input a space... lol.
#128109 - bob_fossil - Tue May 08, 2007 5:51 pm
New beta 1.01.2 at:
http://magnetic-inc.myzen.co.uk/wordwrap-beta080507.zip
- Fixed text on the objective screen for Time Attack B.
- Fixed spurious inputting of a space in easy difficulty.
- In Time Attack A, if there are multiple longest words, you only have to find one of these to unlock the next level.
I'm using 2of4brif.txt as my word list from the 12dicts package. I'm only using the 3 to 8 letter words from this list so I've got around 33,000 words.
Again, if people want to play around with the words lists from 12dicts or another source to make a better or more comprehensive word list, then by all means go ahead. If people want to inspect the word list, then PM me and I'll send you a copy.
#128664 - bob_fossil - Sun May 13, 2007 11:11 pm
New beta 1.01.3 at:
http://magnetic-inc.myzen.co.uk/wordwrap-beta130507.zip
- Press START in game to pause.
- Added some code to let you clear the current submission word quickly. Hold the stylus down in the submission word area and draw a straight line / upwards line from left to right - as if you were crossing the word out and lift the stylus. The word should be cleared away. You'll know if you've done it correctly as you'll see a white line left behind (for debugging). Appreciate some feedback on this.
Has anyone had the freezing on the thinking screen problem with these versions?
#128692 - darkanx - Mon May 14, 2007 2:43 am
The game is looking great. The cross the word out idea is totally brilliant. Sorry I have yet to get back to you about more backgrounds yet. Truth be told, after things finally calmed down here I started on my new game, Skewl'd and have been obsessing over it. :) I'll try to catch you on IM soon. Keep it up!
#128695 - SCPR - Mon May 14, 2007 3:13 am
Cool the submission clear function works great and comes in handy but it would seem more natural for me to start from the end of the word when crossing out since thats where my pen would be if I were writing. The ability to cross out from either direction would be nice.
Are you planning on adding music at some point?
Thanks for the great game!
#129454 - bob_fossil - Tue May 22, 2007 11:26 pm
Tiny tiny update at:
http://magnetic-inc.myzen.co.uk/wordwrap-beta220507.zip
This should let you cross the word out in either direction.
Regarding music - I hadn't given it much thought. I'm not a musician, so if anyone has some music they'd like to donate then drop me a line.
#129683 - hedgehog - Fri May 25, 2007 12:11 am
I like that game very much. Do you have a german update too (for the kids who can't speak english that good).
I would help with the german word file (if you need some help). Could use some of the free dicts from stardict.
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#129686 - Hale-Bopp - Fri May 25, 2007 12:57 am
Very addictive game you have here! Nice presentation as well, with a very easy-to-use interface. Check your PMs.
#130206 - bob_fossil - Thu May 31, 2007 9:16 pm
I've been fiddling around with a combined arm9/arm7 build which does music , thanks to DekuTree64's mod playing code and which also has sleep support when you close the lid - though the led stays green.
Thanks to Lizard/Spaceballs (if memory serves) for the title tune and TDK/Anthrox for the ingame music.
For those brave souls that want to have a try...
http://magnetic-inc.myzen.co.uk/wordwrap2.zip
Interested to hear if I've broken anything.
#130237 - Dave2 - Fri Jun 01, 2007 10:13 am
Fun game, been playing with the latest build (with music) and it seems to have no problems compared to the earlier beta.
One issue I've noticed (and hadn't seen reported) is that if you play something other than time attack a, then quit, the selection screen shows time attack a, but acts as if it's whatever you just played (e.g. if you were playing time attack b, it would show time attack a, but hitting play would launch time attack b, and hitting the right arrow goes to endless).
#130289 - SCPR - Fri Jun 01, 2007 11:30 pm
Alright! We have music! Thanks Bob and of course the music contributers.
No bugs that I've noticed. Looks and sounds great.
#130525 - Devil_Spawn - Mon Jun 04, 2007 4:23 pm
how this homebrew it great!
what song is it that is playing when ur ingame?
#130529 - bob_fossil - Mon Jun 04, 2007 5:43 pm
It's a version of the title music from the C64 game Wizardry. It was done by TDK (The Dark Knight). He used to do music for those little 'adverts' you sometimes used to see before your game started on your Amiga. :) I just bunged in two smallish .mods I had to test the music playback.
I'm still open to receive original compositions in .mod format. :)
#130531 - Devil_Spawn - Mon Jun 04, 2007 6:41 pm
found it, thanks :D
#131016 - this-is-me - Sun Jun 10, 2007 6:03 am
My mom would absolutely love this game if it were not for one thing - the foul language in the background. I would like to request another version that does not have these words. BTW, I really love this game myself so far.
#131612 - Sweater Fish Deluxe - Sun Jun 17, 2007 10:40 pm
Pressing up or down on the title screen will change the background to one with no bad words. Though the second background is based on something from the Shining which did have a lot of cuss words in it as well as a good amount of killing and other no good whatnots, so maybe it's guilty by association anyway.
...word is bondage...
#131614 - tepples - Sun Jun 17, 2007 11:03 pm
| Sweater Fish Deluxe wrote: |
| Though the second background is based on something from the Shining which did have a lot of cuss words in it as well as a good amount of killing and other no good whatnots |
Shinin', shinin', shinin'...
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-- Where is he?
-- Who?
-- You know, the human.
-- I think he moved to Tilwick.
#131636 - this-is-me - Mon Jun 18, 2007 12:10 pm
The problem with that suggestion is that the background picture is not saved from one session to another. Therefore, the user has to remember to change it every time they start playing the game. Can't this option be saved?
#149759 - bob_fossil - Thu Jan 24, 2008 11:57 pm
"I command this thread to rise from it's grave and rescue my daughter!"
There's a new version of Word Wrap at:
http://magnetic-inc.myzen.co.uk/wordwrap110.zip
- Current skin is now saved (needs DLDI patching).
- Moved difficulty level into options screen. Difficulty level is now saved.
- You can now choose between no sounds / just effects or full.
- Game graphics are now skinned.
- Sound effects weren't always being played.
- Added credits screen.
- Added options screen.
- Updated icon.
Plus some new bugs as well. :)
#149797 - nipil - Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:21 pm
Very nice game ! Instant pleasure, and challenging. Even more challenging as english is not my natural language ;)
#168145 - bradleyjk - Sat Apr 11, 2009 11:46 am
This is a fantastic game and the number one played on my cart.
I know that this a a year after the last post but I've got some suggestions for new features if you're interested ...
1. The ability to enter a game number/seed to play a particular word. My wife and I often play this game at the same time (the kids think that we bought the DS for them ... he he). It would be nice to be able to play the same game (especially for the time attack version) - sort of like a pseudo-multiplayer.
2. A nine letter version where one of the letters has to appear in all the words. The newspaper where I live has this version (with minimum of 4 letter words). For example, see http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/puzzles/target.html
Anyway, thanks for a really great game.
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Brad.
#168230 - El_Posible - Thu Apr 16, 2009 4:01 am
Man I can't believe I never knew this game existed... I've been playing Word Up! for a while but never heard of Word Wrap.
This game is really hard though ;_;
#173064 - bob_fossil - Thu Mar 18, 2010 11:38 pm
http://magnetic-inc.myzen.co.uk/wordwrap/wordwrap120.zip
- Added two new game modes - Challenge 1 and Challenge 2 where you can play time attack or endless modes on a specific word.
- Added exit to menu functionality.
- Rebuilt with latest libnds. Should fix sound / mod playback issues.
- Removed EFS code. Settings now saved to /data/wordwrap folder on your card.
- Hopefully fixed nasty hardware only crash.
There will be bugs. :)
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