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Cart #catreeboard-0 | 2024-09-18 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA
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A dark storm is looming over the forest. Only you can help our hero cat escape from the rising flood waters that threaten the land.


Catreeboard is a typing game that helps players practice their typing skills. By successfully typing words on the next branch, the cat will jump in an attempt to avoid rising flood waters.

Keyboard is required to play. Does not work with a controller.

Features

  • Chill mode for beginning typers to get the basics.
  • Challenge mode to test the fastest of typers, beware the storm!
  • Customize your cat! Select your favorite color for your adventuring cat.

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Recently, I've been working on a word-typing game called Catreeboard with my son. At the beginning and to simply get the game to a state where we could work on animations and gameplay, I naively created a simple table-based dictionary that is subdivided by length of the word. It looked something like this:

dictionary = {
    {
        "a",
        "i",
        "on",
        "at",
        "it",
        "is",
    },
    {
        "cat",
        "dog",
        "sun",
        "hat",
        "bat",
        "pen",
    },
    {
        "home",
        "love",
        "ball",
        "star",
        "blue",
    },
    {
        "house",
        "quick",
        "plant",

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Cart #catreeboard_alpha-3 | 2024-08-29 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | License: CC4-BY-NC-SA
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Catreeboard is a typing game that helps players practice their typing skills. By successfully typing words on the next branch, the cat will jump in an attempt to avoid rising flood waters. I'm making this in collaboration with my son of whom is learning to type.

Roadmap

  • Main game mode to have levels and calculation of score (based on wpm, accuracy) in addition to infinite scrolling as it is now.
  • A losing condition with water rising from the bottom of the screen.
  • Sound effects (jumping, game over, etc).
  • Music.
  • Better thought out dictionary.
  • Customized cat color.
  • Customized difficulty.

Changelog

0.7a:

  • Expandeded dictionary to over 80 words per word length (6 levels)
  • fix: No back-to-back same words

0.6a:

  • Implemented challenge mode!
  • Game over screen at the end of challenge mode with metrics displayed.
  • Added menu option to end a game early.
  • Expanded camera capability to scroll in both directions.
  • Improved accuracy from being reduced for hitting non-letter keys.
  • Improved pause behavior.
  • fix: Uneven flood rise.
  • fix: Restore camera after background draw.
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Cart #matchem_0_6-6 | 2023-01-16 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License
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Matchem is a traditional match three gem game, it is designed to be played either with a challenging time/move limited level mode, or a more relaxed endless mode.

Challenge mode:

Complete a color objective within a time limit or within a fixed number of moves.

Endless mode:

Play forever!

Daily Run Mode: Challenge yourself and your friends to achieve the high score of the day! Everyone's board and random gems will be the same each day.

Previous Cart Versions

0.5

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Cart #matchem_0_5-0 | 2023-01-08 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License
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