Do you enjoy typing games?
One of my earliest learning games was a typing game on an Apple II. As I remember, it was a game where you were a spaceship and letters and words were coming at your ship. By typing the words you’d blow them up for they hit your ship and did damage. Missed too many words and it was game over.
This is my first ever community game jam entry, which is on the theme of Mental Health Awareness. I thought it would be both educational and worthwhile to make a typing game around the topic.
The game is called: Mood Typer.
HOW TO PLAY
In Mood Typer, just click start or choose one of the five included songs to play. While the song is playing, you’ll type random articles about mental health awareness. Press the spacebar to enter you word. The more words and faster you type, the higher you’ll score. When the song is over, the game is, too.
CONTROLS
Keyboard – entering text
Spacebar – registering words
Period – ends sentence for additional word scoring.
Mood Typer v0.95 🕹️ Play on Rosebud AI – direct source link:
https://play.rosebud.ai/games/a60d476f-4533-43ca-8619-e17bc4dc8bac
Features:
- multiple randomized articles on Mental Health Awareness
- five different songs to play games by AI Kills (Spotify artist page: https://open.spotify.com/artist/63ataxYlRXQGxWaJz6JFTU))
[2:41] “Fast Fingers Mental Maze”
[3:26] “Typing to the Beat”
[3:26] “Melancholic Typing Symphony”
[2:54] “Mood Typer” (my personal favorite)
PGM SCORE CHASING – [3:47] “Mood Typer Dreams”
You can click start and a random song will play or choose specific songs from 1-5 on the keyboard and pressing “play” along the bottom left corner.
- top 5 scores for each song are tracked across multiple game sessions
- overall number of words typed is tracked in a secret library that is hidden until you figure out how to unlock) that unlocks more games to play
- custom speed slider to increase or decrease the speed of the scrolled text. This can be adjusted during gameplay (faster or slower) but has no impact on scoring
With each new game published through Rosebud, I’ve been trying to bring at least one new thing I haven’t seen anybody else do there yet, to help give back fun ideas to the community at large. In my last game (see Play Space Keno) I had this Cantina that had embed links in every game, so essentially you could play all my created Rosebud games within that one game.
Have done something similar with Mood Typer, but initially hid the access at the beginning until the player finds the secret access to unlock it. Consider it sort of a Hide-and-go-seek mode, if you will. Once that’s done, it’s unlocked on all future gaming sessions in that browser. Here’s a sneak peek at what you see when you find this additional games area:
If you find the secret, don’t spoil by sharing with others, just have fun 🙂 Hint: the answer is on the splash page if you look very carefully.
As with the other PGM original games, our PGM iScored leaderboards has a place for tracking your highest score — on the longest song “Mood Typer Dreams” — here: https://iscored.info/?mode=public&user=Playgamesmore.
UPDATE 9/15/2024 @ 9:08am PST: See my highest score as of this update, see if you can type your way to higher score than the developer:
And/or, if you like, you can post your highest score in the comments here. Have fun!