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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Enjoyment | #460 | 3.808 | 3.808 |
| Overall | #743 | 3.756 | 3.756 |
| Style | #1228 | 3.769 | 3.769 |
| Creativity | #1239 | 3.692 | 3.692 |
Ranked from 26 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
Scale means "to climb" and also means "stairs" in italian: our player must scale the stairs of a building by typing correctly on the keyboard
Development Time
96 hours
(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
keys: https://dreammix.itch.io/keyboard-keys-for-ui
grunts: https://freesound.org/search/?q=grunt&f=grouping_pack%3A%2230826_Voice+%E2%80%93+Male+Grunts+and+Screams%22
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Ay very fun twist on a typing game, I like the idea of intentionally backwards and inverted words to trip you up unless you're paying attention to what you're typing. Cool interpretation of the theme too!
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed the twist on the typing game. The idea was to challenge players to really focus and think differently about typing, turning something familiar into a bit of a brain teaser. Thanks for playing!
Nice art! Very funny to play, good job!
Made it to level 25! Took more attempts than Id like to admit, but I'm pretty sure I'm at least a tiny bit better at speed typing now haha. Loved all the switch ups and random lines thrown in. It kept the game feeling fresh as I went up each floor, and I was wondering what the next floor would say. Altogether a really fun typing game (I didn't know typing games could be this fun)! Very well done!
Thank you for playing. I didn't know making typing games could be this much fun as well!
This was painful in a good way. Damn spaces. And reverse words. And… stuff. Great job!
Yes, you have perfectly described the experience 😉
this is my favorite take on the topic, such a great game!
I like how you almost begin to trust you and then it gets you...right there :D i wanted to press space so often lol
that was lots of fun, and the ending was cherry on the top. the only problem for me was that I mostly looked at the keyboard (after I memorized half of the worlds hahah) and missed the coolest art!
Thank you so much for your comment! I'm thrilled that you enjoyed the game. You've absolutely grasped the core concept: just when you've memorized a floor, the game flips everything on you, challenging everything you thought you had learned! And yes, it's true—you end up focusing on the keys more than the player and all the chaos happening around him, but that's intentional. The strange art style is designed to make you blink and lose focus from time to time, nothing more.
very interesting approach to the theme. Thoroughly enjoyed it even though i failed a couple of times. Good job.
Just a couple of times? Bravo!
Love the mechanic <3 the animation and pixel art are superb. I always fail when i'm pressing space between those words XD
Yeah, I’m sorry, that’s probably the most unfair mechanic in the game xD
Pure gold, such a simple concept but applied so great, animation, sounds, response, easter eggs everywhere.
Never thought you can make such addictive gameplay with so little, I couldn't stop until I beat the game
You’re making us all blush—thanks, Pavel!
ohh this is a challenging game to play with long nails lol. But i found it incredibly fun, amazing concepts, funny as well. Easily one of my fav submissions that I've played
Thanks a lot, means the world to us ❤️
Interesting game, Good graphic and music, just a little tip that may help, the fired screen takes a bit to long(Or maybe I am just too bad that I got fired to much)
You are probably right...
good graphics, but the controls did not always work correctly
I assure you: controls works fine, you are probably just missing the correct key 😉
so it's probably likely)
Nice art :)
Getting used to the switch ups made it interesting
Thanks, that was the only way to make it interesting in such a short time.
Haha this was very fun, better than a textbook for learning to write fast :D The floor ********* was very evil though :>
I know, but I must say I am not sorry about that xD