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by badave 4605 days ago
How did you pick the font? I find myself having problems figuring out is a single letter is a l or an i or a j sometimes. Seems like there's a lot of fonts out there with better readability.
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Same thing here. Also when two words come at you on top of each other, hard to see what I should be spelling ;-)

Ideas:

> Smaller words protected by a "forcefield" of a bigger word.

> Wrong letter halfway through spelling could make the enemy ship shoot a "backspace" torpedo that can only be destroyed with the backspace key. So three wrong letters would shoot 3 backspace torpedoes at you.

> Two long words reaching out could a tractor beam.

Well, I picked Tungsten because... well, it was pretty. But you're absolutely right. I changed it to Deja-Vu now. Please refresh!
I find the font colour problematic at times, because it's very similar to that of the opponents; so occasionally a selected word isn't easily visible against it's background, and I'm not certain which letter I've missed.

Also, thanks for a surprisingly entertaining, and maybe even useful game :)

yes it would be great to avoid the words to overlap. And also when I begin to type in a word I cannot switch to another target, I must finish the current one. It is ok! But could you make the current bigger and red instead of orange please? :-)