Let's Play Word Play!

Hey everybody, Mark Brown here from GameMakers Toolkit with the first ever let's play video on this channel. Don't worry, I'm not changing how the channel works. It's just this is my new game and I thought it'd be fun to play it with you. Um, it's called WordPlay. There is a demo available now on Steam if you'd like to try it out. The demo only gives you a very small sense of what this game is really like. So, I thought I'd show you the full game and you can see what it's really like to play uh with all of the the perks and modifiers and rounds. So, I'm going to go into hard mode because uh I feel like I've I've got it in me and I'm going to talk you through the game as we play. So the the goal of the game is to find a good long word in this ocean of tiles here like aitate. Yeah, that's good. We hit the submit button. It adds up the all the points. We get bonus points for the long word and we score some score some points and hopefully get to the end of the round. Every time we submit a word, it uses a play word play. We have a limited number of those. Um, but we get some back when we get to the end of the round. So, we got to just try and keep spelling words, not use too many plays, and uh and get to the the end of the game. So, I can see here got a lot of O's. Uh, yeah, let's do room to get rid of some of those O's. And I think we get one more word to get to the next round. So, hate. Hated. Okay. So, when we get to the end of the round, we go to the uh perk screen. We get four plays back and then we can pick one of these free perks and reroll or skip, you know, the classic. You've played Slay the Spire, you've played a rogike. So, uh these are actually the three types of things you can get in the shop. You can get modifiers. They're your um passive perks. They're just sort of running in the background. So, this one gives us a bonus score of plus one and then increases every time we use an upgrade. We get upgrades which are active. We have to um basically use a tile on them. So this would duplicate a tile and add it to our letter bag. And then gifts are things that get added basically to the letter bag. So this one adds two diamond zed tiles to the letter bag. Uh diamond tiles basically power up when you don't use them. That was a lot of information. Suffice to say, I'm going to go with this one because it's uh giving us more bonus score and it's going to increase every time we use an upgrade. So, if we can try and get more upgrades throughout the run, that could be very powerful. Okie dokie. So, if we can't find a good word in here, we can hit this button to just sort of move the letters around. It's quite a good way to kick your brain into gear. If we really don't like them, we can hit this button to refresh and get a whole new set of tiles. But I do see uncle. Um I also whenever I see like an re e I'm like you know that's that there's surely some good words there like re refinal. No but we could have refine. Is that longer than uncle? U n c l e. Yes. A little bit longer than uncle. And we get the f. I'm not liking the rest of these letters. I think we're going to have to refresh. Refine. Um, okay. I also see uh tutorials. There we go. Sometimes you think you've got terrible letters, but there is a a good word in there. Tutorials. This video is a tutorial in a way. Nice. Okay. And then we've got zed. Uh, we only need five points to get to the next round. your points don't carry over from round to round, which is a a conscious design design decision on my part. Uh so we can just uh we don't want to use our best letters yet. We just want to get rid of some stuff. So maybe just use like uh haunt. That will get us through to the next round, baby. Round two complete. Okay, so two ing tiles, ing tiles, bonus score plus three increases by one when you add a new tile to the letter bag. So you can see a synergy here. You know, you got this one to increases and then you add some some tiles. Um, this one, return all tiles with the letter to the letter bag and swap for new ones. If there are three plus of the same letter, gain two refreshes. Hopefully, that will make sense. If we use this, every time we use one of these, this thing is going to go up. So, let's let's have that. And if we can see, we need to save it. Basically, if we get like inundated with O's. We only got two O's. We can we can use that to um get some uh to get rid of them and to get some refreshes. Now I see blazed or blazer D is better. I'd like blazing but we don't have an N. Yeah, that's I think Blazed is good. Cool. Okay. Um cycle cyclers or like um sorry recycle. I don't need that. Ess cyclones. How do I what I do? Cycle cyclers. Cyclers. Yeah. Bicycers. Tricycers. So, now we've got three eyes. We could use this. In fact, well, let's let's wait and just make sure. cuz I an I would be good if it was ing but we don't have that but we don't want to get rid of it in case we we need it two V's sav saved die diversion sometimes there there's letters like N's which is so good um like winking um dunking you know I'm getting caught up let's let's do this let's get rid of this I. So, added two refreshes. So, a lot happened there. Uh, got rid of the eyes. They refreshed into new letters, lots of O's. Um, I could do it again. Um, it also added two refreshes because it, um, there was more than three of them or three or more of them. And it increased this plus one. So, all good. All good. Um, in fact, I might do it now with the O's because now we've got seven refreshes. And I really wish I had an N. Uh, deep. I'm actually going to refresh the letters because I've got so many now and I'm getting caught up on this N malarkey. Okay, that's better. So, we can't use this Q because we don't have a U. There aren't any. There is one word in the dictionary that doesn't or at least one word I know of that doesn't use a quu, but we we don't have the other letters. Um, we've got the N and the G, but we don't have the eyes anymore. We could do this again. Let's just keep doing this cuz this is um boosting this. And we've got the ing. Fantastic. Um, we could do uh farting or like a um farthing. That's a type of coin, right? penny farthing. Some type of bike. Okay, sweet. Round three complete. Okie dokie. Add two emerald zed tiles to the letter bag. So, emerald tiles have a one in4 chance of scoring five times and they're zeds. So, that's pretty good. Bonus score plus 10 if the word has exactly four tiles. So, there's a number of upgrades in this game that are built around letting you just score fourletter words and trying to, you know, uh boost your score that way. This modifier shows the next four tiles to come out of the letter bag. This one is powerful, but you but but but um you have to really be on the ball to be using I'm going to go with this one. Let's get some zed tiles and emeralds. So, cuz now we've got we've got loads of zeds. So, this is the letter bag. So, we can see the zeds down here. Um so, that's cool. Amazing. So close. So close. So close. So, we could try and fish for an eye with this. We wouldn't get the refreshes because Yeah, but we I think it's worth it. Wasn't worth it. Okay, at least we we've boosted this. Amazing. Okay, how about um or no? Um, examining. Now I'm stuck on that. I'm stuck on that ing again. So remember that, uh, emerald tiles have a one in4 chance of scoring five times. So it could give us 50 points if we're lucky. Um, Zago, that's not my word. Um, oh man, amazing. So good. Okay, here's what we're going to do. We're going to try and hope that we get an end next round. So, we're gonna go with we're try you save these letters and go with like um is Nexon a word? That's like that's like a company, right? It's like Nexon Mobile. Yeah. Why did I think that was a word? So, amazing. We can you can use we could spell we could do uh we Oh, sorry. We come on. I. We just need an I. We just need an I. Yes, there it is. Amazing. And if that zed kicks off, that is going to be super. It did. 50 points. Yes. Okay, we're Oh my gosh, we are on the emerald game now. Ex. Okay. Uh excited. Oh, that Where's the I need the eye again. Next. 14 points. 1 2 3 uh 8 is uh 11 + 5 is 16. We need 14 points. We're good. Next round, please. Okay. Got a legendary. If a modifier is sold or destroyed, make a new copy of it. Destroys this modifier. That works with certain perks, not any ones I've any other ones I've got. Okay, I feel like I need something better than these. I'm gonna reroll. Oh boy. Oh boy. If the word is exactly Okay, this is interesting. If the word is exactly four tiles, multiply the bonus score by two. So that means that plus five is always going to be multiplied by two. Length changes every round. If your word has four tiles, a random tile will become an emerald tile. I want both of these. I want both of these. I'm going to go with this one. Um, oh no. Oh, okay. So, we've entered a special round. Special round have certain restrictions uh limitations. Basically, the boss blinds in Bellatro. Let's not let's not uh let's not try to hide away from the the uh inspirations for this game. So, we've just kind of screwed ourselves because if the word is exactly four tiles, we get this modifier, but the word has to be six tiles to score at least six tiles. Unless, well, no, cuz so no. So, if I spell a four-letter word, it will it will still trigger this. It' be plus five and then times 10 give us 10. But that's only 10 points. We need 125. No, we're going to have to we're going to have to uh do something better here. MC. you know. Um I'm going to refresh. I I don't like these letters. Okay. Bakers. I'm not going to get much better than that right now. Oh dear. That's not very many points. We're starting to lose the the upgrade curve. I haven't got I need some better stuff here. This would be good if I if I wasn't in this terrible round. Um, troubled. Troubled. Yeah, good. Good. Strong all American word. Troubled. Okay, we just got to get through this this this round. Um, private. Um, repeat. Haven't got that. Let's refresh. Got so many eyes. I I want the eye. Okay. Okay. Here we go. We got ing. We got ing. We got Okay. There's lot There's There There's something good here. We've got um sloping. I feel like we do we can do better than that. Um, dealing stealing. That is what we're talking about. Still need a little bit. We're not We're not doing We're not getting a lot of points each round. Um, dooming. Where's that end gone? Um, pave. paved. No, it's not enough. Mood D. It's not enough. It's not enough. Okay, we got ED. Surely we can find a word with this. Like, uh, yeah, doomed. Doomed. I'm doomed if I don't get some more points soon. Running out of place. Okay, wizard. M I appreciate that at many times during this let's play you're going to see an amazing word that I am completely missing and you're going to be shouting at your screen. Mark Mark spell objectionable. Don't think it even fit. But you know I'm I app I apologize. Um I haven't got any um I haven't got I haven't got an E. I haven't got an N. I'm gonna do We need 23 points plus five. Okay. Spear without an spicy without a E or an ing. I'm going to refresh. Okay. Expire. Expire. Expire. Reexpire. That doesn't you can't reexpire. Okay, I'm happy with the expire. That's good. Okay, got that round. So now if the world is exactly seven tiles, it will multiply by two. I think we could probably get that. All tiles are automatically refreshed at the start of each round. Add the dot tiles and the bonus score plus three increases by one. Did I say about dot tiles? They uh multiply the word score by two if it's the last tile you use, which is pretty good. Yeah. Okay, let's go with those because if we can get a there's there's one there. If we could get a zed and an S and the zed, you know, the emerald zed triggers. Okay, so ses sausages, there's more than our seven tiles. It's eight tiles. Oh, we could just do sausage. That's not how you spell it. Sauce. Sausage. That's how you spell sausage, right? Yeah. I'll save that S for another round. Okay. Sausage. So, now it's going to double plus 5 30. Okay. There. That's better. Okay. How about ozones? If that zed triggers and it gets 50 and then it multiplies. It didn't. Okay. But still it's still it's still good. We're still good. We're still good. Okay. Now we're now we're now we're cooking with gas a bit more. Okay. So let's say we want to go to seven tiles again. So we could do um Kinker. I need those ends. Femia. Um Um How about uh Jeria? Sorry, Jerky. I use the E twe tweaker. There we go. As a game dev, I am constantly being a tweaker of settings and numbers and balancing. Okay. Uh, we've got ing. We want to do it here for our times seven letter word. So, this is when the game starts getting really good where we're not just looking for the longest word in this thing, but we're trying to find very specific things. We want to get to exactly seven tiles. So, we just need something here. Um, caving. Not quite enough. We need like We need like or orating. Ovading. Evading. Haven't got an E. Avoiding. It's too many letters, but it's still it's a good strong word. And in fact, it should probably get us through the end of this round, I reckon. Yes. Okay. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. So this is now, if the word is exactly, five tiles. That's not many. Transform a tile into a random special tile. Transform a tile into a golden tile. Duplicate all the tiles. That's good. Obviously, if you've got like some emeralds and and some special tiles in there to just have more of them. I'm going to go with the special tile. A random special tile. So it's got to if it's five tiles, it doubles it. A five tile word is only + two. So it be + 2 + 5 which is 7 * 2. So we'll get 14. It's not a huge amount. Um let's put this B and No, let's put an a Y in here and see what it turns into. So that is an diamond tile. Diamond tiles increase by their score when you don't use them. So if we will hold on to that. Although Jour Journey Journey. So that's good, right? So Journey is good, but we don't want to use it yet because we want to use it next round. So if we go with um we go with fume, right? Go with fume. Let's see what this does. So that is an emerald tile. We know we know we know about emeralds. Boom. Okay. Nice. Um, oh, I should have done. Okay, so we've got Oh, man. It's now adding five is J. Now we got journeys. Is that how you spell journeys or is it with a Y? No, it is with a Y. Journeys. If we could hold on to it for a little bit longer, it will go up. It goes up by five every time we don't use it. So if we do uh if we do bounce now it's plus now it's 10 but 14. Okay. I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to use it. Journeys journeys. Oh. So it's going to do 14 double it 56. Nice. Okay. Okay. I'm feeling I'm feeling confident about this run. I'm feeling confident. We've got nine plays left. So, I think we can do this. Um low got that in. Uh zone 47 points zoned. So, I mean, if that triggers, then we go through. Let's Let's try it. Nope. But we get close. So, we just need 14 points now, which we could probably get with um varial. Nope. Varial. Nope. From Tony Hawks. A varial trick. H. Might have to add that to the dictionary. Um, this is this is the uh the joy of being the developer is I can just add words. Um, now I'm thrown. Now I'm thrown. Now thrown. Ah, N throw. Throw. Throw is good because we get the the times two. So, we're going to always get 18 points with if word exactly eight tiles. That is a lot. That is a lot of tiles to get, but we could do it. Diamond Q tiles. Don't lose a play if you submit a word with only four tiles. Transform a tile into an emerald. M I like all of these. I like all of these. I'm going to Emeralds are pretty good because that that's also going to do three of those onto here. So that's going to make that plus 10 times two. Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. This is what we're working with. Okay, so this is another special round. Tiles refresh after submission. So it means we cannot refresh anymore. We've just got to go with these. And I don't like them. Oh dear. I don't like them at all. I don't like them. We haven't got any E ends. S. We got nothing. Oh boy. We're not going to get to eight without any E. I'm just telling you that. I'm telling you that for for free. For free. to the point that I think I'm just going to I'm just going to spend something like I'm just going to do like plat just get rid of some of these letters. Yeah. Oh jeez. Okay. Oh no. This isn't going well cuz we got a Q but no U. No O E again. Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh my gosh. Sport. I don't want to use it on my emeralds just yet. Oh, maybe I should. Oh jeez. Okay, at least we got some ease. We've got an ing. We want to try and get to eight tiles. We really want to get to eight tiles. Um, remaking. That is what we need. Let's turn a K into an emerald and a G into an emerald. And we'll save that last one for another one. Okay, so we're gonna get a lot of bonus points. More bonus points. Double the bonus points. And maybe if some of these trigger. Come on now. None of them triggered. But at least we got Bouch. Okay, I'm happy with that. That was good. Okay, we've got the We've got the S. We've got E. Okay. slats. We can't use the If we can't get to eight, that's okay. Uh how about how about uh defiles? No, the h sound like a Minecraft villager. H I'm losing I'm losing the plot. Um uh okay. I keep saying okay and I'm not okay. I can't see anything good here. So, I think I'm just going to waste this one with like Oh, hold on. Add joins. Hello. It's not quite eight, but it's it's still good. I'm happy with that. I didn't even use the E. Okay, we got that. Another S. Okay. Shove. Shaves. Okay, I'm going to go with shoves. But let's let's emerald up this V cuz now that's plus 10. Okay. Okay. Getting a little bit low on on plays here. This is no good in a in this round cuz it's just refreshing. 17 points plus 10. I mean, yeah, we should be good. Um like zubers re re result. I'd love to use this zed record. No rec records. It's too good to be true. Re reborn re recount. re. We don't need many letters. 17 letters. We don't need to worry too much. Let's just do Let's do resort. Resorting. Resort. Let's do resort. Is that enough? Yeah. Yeah. And I think the Y. Yeah, the Y will keep going. Okay. It's again if the word is exactly eight tiles. Diamond tiles. When submitted, convert the seventh tile into a golden tile. If the first and last letter of the word the same, multiply the bonus score by three. That's very unlikely to happen. That's not very useful right now. Let's go with this. Let's go diamond. Okay, we're on round nine. It's heating up. It's heating up. It's heating up. elated elation. These uh diamond tiles um revert back to their get rid of that five basically if I refresh them also. So I don't want to refresh if I don't have to bounty. Ah ah ah. Okay. I think I'm going to refresh even though I lose that five. It's it's not a lot. I just I'm not feeling these letters. Eight tiles. Man, this is hard. This is getting hard. Um, bated bara. It's nice. Barracuda. It's got two Rs, isn't it? Uh, educated. Educated. Eight letters. Boom. Happy. Should have done a diamond. Forgot. Okay. Okay. Okay. Agitate. Agitate. Wait. Cooking my gas. Okay. Uh, let's Sorry. Let's turn that into a diamond. Especially if we can do like next round get like um like bunkers. Yeah. Look at that. Next round, we're going to go with um bunker if we can or bunking. Okay. Okay. I'm feeling confident now. We haven't got a huge number of plays, but we're getting Mondo score. We got a lot of emeralds. We got two of the We could do like um haven't got the G or the thing for bunkers or bunking, but that's okay. We'll we'll save that because we could do um Oh, I could do um a void. Yeah, let's So, we want to do bunkers next round. So, let's do we'll just do that one. So, now Okay, it's feeling good. This is feeling good. Oh, okay. Triggered a little bit. Okay. M. Okay. So, what we got? Bang. Cuz Oh, it's not quite enough. If we had bung king, that's still not enough, is it? I can't think what I could do to make that longer. Um, bankers is no better. Oh, it's so close. But it doesn't hugely matter cuz this one's about word score, not bonus score. So 10 two I really wish I had a a a do s. Okay. I think I think I'm happy with that. I'm happy with that. Okay. Add your refresh count to the bonus score. We've got quite a lot of refreshes going into round 10. Um, yeah, let's do that cuz we've got we've got four refreshes. So, we'll put that up here. Um, uh, uh, okay. Oh, sorry. Six tiles gives us the the thing. Oh, we could do six fizz. Oh, if we had like fizz fizzier. Another E. Fizzier. That would be amazing if one of those triggered. Fizzies. Okay. Okay. Okay. We need to We need to slow. But we need to calm down. We need to calm down. Um, we need to think about what we can do with these. Not a lot here, but we could do um, I could do exotic if we had the thing. We've only got one vow, so it would have to be something like H. I'm definitely going to get an e soon. So, if we could just get something here. What the hell? Where's a word here? Torn. Torn. Torn. Right. So, we do torn. We do torn and we cross our fingers for an E. There's so many E's. No E. Okay. Okay. Okay. Cuz what we want is fizzier. Fizz or fizzy. No. Fizzes. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. We We'll do it again. We'll do it again. Um, we're in a similar position as before. Um, we've got more vowels now. It needs to end in an N surely. Um. Okay. Worm. I had to use I had to use one of my letters. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Fizz. Fizzer. Fizzer. Fizzer. Fizzer. Fizzer. Two zeds. One of those has got a trigger. We get the with six tiles. We've got the It's It's all good. It's all good. And then we've got some more letters for the next round. Okay, one of those has got a trigger. Yes. 50. Okay. 109 points. Okay. Now I'm getting Now things are going good. Um axe. Oh man. Oh, I think we need to refresh just because we've got some haven't got any ease. Although we got vaugh vaunts. I mean that's that's a word, right? Yeah. Okay. Get our six things. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. It's fine. It's fine. It's all good. Now we are cooking. Now we are cooking. I'm running a little bit low on plays, but we've got some good stuff going on here. So, how about Okay, an old favorite is Ozones. No, I should have used the S. I should use the dot S. I'm rushing. I'm rushing. Come on, Mark. Calm down. It's fine. It's fine. It's all good. It's all good. We didn't need it. Okay, two more rounds. If the word has exactly four tiles, the first and last tile score times three, this will increase. I think I think let's go with this cuz we want to keep adding to this. Okay, we've got QU. Oh, exactly nine tiles. That is tough. That is tough. We're not going to get nine quick. Quickotics. No, but quickotic is a word. And then if we just quickoticy, quickoticy, no. Quickotic is a a word and a half. That is not doing that. That is a bug. That is not permanently increasing the new task score by one. That is a bug. I'm so close with quicksotic, but I'm still very proud of that word. 59 points. It's not bad. Okay, this is getting strong. Nine tiles. That is so harsh. We've just got to get our way through this and then really hope for the best that the last round has a nicer modifier here. Oh boy. Oh boy. I'm getting my heart is actually starting to race a little bit here. uh slloy uh it's we're get okay we could probably get some to nine like something here like sleepers sleepier is a word okay I can't believe I found a bug during the live stream but that's fine the life the the let's play H weapons. Well, that did work that time. I'm not sure. I'm going to have to look into that. Weapons. Um, and then we'll just do this one as well. I shouldn't have got rid of my E. That was stupid. Weapon. Weapon. Weaponry. It's not quite nine, but it's good. It's good. We got a 20 here. I'd love to have that Y and that S together, but it's I'm I'm okay. I'm okay. Boom. Okay. I need a I need a sound effect when the diamond resets. Get my my sound designer on that. Okay, we've How many plays have we got? Five plays. Okay, I think we're good. I think we're good. Defile defilings. Not a word. Defiling. 101 points left. Okay. I need to get a little bit thoughtful about my plays now. 53 points left. Uh match matches. Yeah, that's okay. Or okay. Okay, double that. Yes. Okay, we're into the final round. Oh, baby. Okay, we're done. I've done I've solved it. Seven tiles. We can get 10 bonus score during special round. So, the last round is always a special round. So, we're going to buy that. We're going to put this up here. It was touch and go, but we are we are good. We So, this is a special round where we have to submit the highlighted tile. And I think we're I think we're good. Billed dilated. Dilated. Seven words. We're going to plus + 4 + 10 + 16. What's that? 20 30 * 2 60 points plus all of these points nine bing bong bish bos sorry 80 points we're good we're good um vibration noitates no so we want to get to this seven probably with a an s by vit shouting. Um, okay. I can't see I'm I'm not seeing great words here. So, I'm going to um just biff this one with a uh baits. Just biff that one. Just biff it. It's fine. We should get quite I get quite a lot of points just from bonus. get 40 points just from a bonus. Oh my god, we got everything going on now. Um, okay. So, we could do bunked gked a jar. Okay, I'm getting a little bit nervous. I think we'll be all right. We got to get seven letters. Come on. Let's find this. Let's find these seven letters. Surely we can do something here or engaged. Okay, probably done. Probably dumb. I just want to build up those those letters. Okay, we're getting Okay, it's getting a bit touch and go now. Bunkers. Bunters. Okay. Don't know what bunters means. We've got it. We play. We've got everything there. 99 points. Okay. We are down to three plays, but we only need 20 points. We're going to get 20 points. This is it. We just need to go out on a high with a nice firm word. Dingdong bosch. There we go. Fizz up for 109 words. 51 words spelled, 11 bonuses. That's word play. I hope you enjoyed watching me play the game. I hope this is inspired you to go and wishlist the game on Steam. You can also play a demo. The demo only has 23 perks, so you're not going to have as exciting around as that. I genuinely was getting a little bit nervous there. Um, I I think I would have won just because I had that 10 during special rounds. That was a really good one to have at the very end. Played some great words there. Genuinely feel like a little bit nervous and excited. So, that was um, you know, it's always good when you make something that gives you feelings. Happy with that. I keep looking at the wrong camera. That's the camera. That's not the camera. Thanks for watching. This was a bizarre video to have on GMTK, but this is my life now. I make games as well as uh as well as analyzing games, so you're going to get all sorts of crazy stuff. Thanks so much for watching, and I'll see you when I see you. Bye.