Second Playtest is live - With your feeback!

⌨️Typing Tales is ready for your Fingers!⌨️

A lot of things changed thanks to your feedback!

What's New? 🤔🤔🤔

🎊 Features 🪄:

• Added a tutorial! 👉 auto plays first time player enters a map and starts a game

• Added modifiers! 👉 endless: game goes on forever, frail: you only have one health, perfect: a single wrong keystroke ends the run

• Added difficulty selection! 👉 from 50 to 500. Influences enemy word length, spawns, speed, ability usage, etc.

• Added a ton of pickups! 👇

• pickup: damage 👉 doubles damage dealt from typing

• pickup: experience 👉 doubles all experience and gathers automatically on first pickup

• pickup: health 👉 heals you by 3

• pickup: letter 👉 reduces all enemy words by one letter. If the enemy has a 4 letter word, it dies

• pickup: loot 👉 open it for a bunch of upgrades!

• pickup: movement 👉 quadruples your movement distance!

• pickup: push 👉 pushes all enemy back a huge amount

• pickup: refresh 👉 refreshes all your ability cooldowns

• pickup: shock 👉 when you damage an enemy by typing, damage another random one in range

• Added a special event per map! 👉 rewards will be available in a future patch

• Added support for Russian Language

• Added credits scene, now you can see everyone who's helped on the game!

• Added minimap in-game! 👉 see where you are relative to pickups

🔨 Balancing 🔧:

• Changed all ability cooldown values

• Made characters starting ability three times as strong

• Enemy spawns are now more dynamic to ensure a stable level of difficulty

• Enemy words also increase in length as the game goes on

• Enemy movement scales with difficulty and time

• Enemy word length influences amount of xp dropped

• Enemy abilities scale with difficulty and time as well

• Map has been completely reworked so the player can actually traverse through it more easily

• Improved player movement distance

🌜QoL🌛:

• Language can now be chosen by typing it from main menu!

• Enter advances main menu automatically; can be done all the way into the game!

• Added pickup disappearing animation

• Added pickup duration display

• Added pickup active VFX

• Ability duration and stats are now reflected correctly in-game and in Main Menu

• Added animation for player movement

• Improved SFX for different events in-game

• Movement directions now auto-submit!

• Typing "menu" or "restart" from the pause menu in-game automatically executes those actions

• Pausing the game shows what each value on the left-hand UI means

• Added pickups on the minimap display

• Added loot screen and three different rarities; I hope you enjoy the VFX!

🪳Bug Fixes🦟:

• Language button(s) now works correctly in Main Menu

• Pickups correctly stop when game is paused

• Fixed incorrect highlighting of words

• Select Screen text overflowing is no more!

• Cyclic dependency which caused game crash has been slain!

• Fixed issue with game not pausing correctly

• Fixed enemy abilities still occurring when game is paused

• And many others I forgot to document! 🙈

💪 Want to Help? 🦵

There's a ton of ways you can help make Typing Tales better! Above all I'm thankful for your time and that you've read this post. Even if you only play the game, you're already supporting me greatly; so thank you! 🙇

Join the Community!

You can join the community on discord here 👉 https://discord.gg/FBdGDag9xd

There you can give feedback on...

• Bugs! 🦟

• Missing features you'd like to see! 🔨

• Game feel or balance being off! 🔧

• Localization issues! 🌐

• And anything else you can think of! 😀

Do you want Typing Tales in your language?

Please let me know in Discord or here in the comments. I'm just a guy and I only speak english; so other languages are a huge effort. I'm happy to do it though!

🏃‍➡️ What's Next? 🏃

Check out the roadmap here 👉 https://open.codecks.io/typing_titans If anything is missing from the next release or future releases tell me about it!

💓🔥 Thank you for your continued love and support! 🔥💓

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