Blank Spaces

Use letter tiles, blanks and special spaces to build high scoring words. Increase your letter scores to beat an ever-increasing word score goal. 

There are 5 words in a Set. Missing a word (not reaching the word goal) burns all blanks. But missing the 5th word in a set ends the run. If you hit on the 5th word, you proceed to the next set and your Letter Bag is reset, as well as a free blank is gifted to you.

This is a prototype for a game idea i had using the theme 'Blank Spaces'. I'm addicted to Balatro so naturally I only see game design in terms of combo-scoring mechanics. 

I REALLY love the concept of Scrabble blanks that have special abilities or power ups when you enter a letter so that was the main incentive for making this. It took me about 3 weekends to finish. I spent a little too much time working on polish and should've spent more time balancing and focusing on finding a solid game loop. Still, I think this is good enough to get the general idea across. I don't know if I plan on making a full-fledged version any time soon but I have tons of ideas ready to go if I do.

The 'J' and 'I' as well as 'U' and 'V' letters are very similar looking with the font I chose. Is it annoying? Yes. Have I misspelt words many times because of this? Yes but I'm not changing it because it looks cool.

TOOLS USED

• Unity Engine
• Visual Studio - C#
• Aseprite for sprites
• Dafont.com for the font
• Myself for audio effects
• This youtube vid for background noise

To Open the game on Mac:

1.Open Terminal

2.type "chmod -R 755" then drag and drop App file onto line. Hit enter.

3.type "xattr -d" drag and drop App file again. Hit enter.

4.cntrl click App. if it says can't open, hit ok and keep opening until it gives you the option to proceed anyway.