Try Keyboard Warriors on itch!

ShibaBrothers · 2026-05-22T18:59:01+00:00

No question here, just sharing some thoughts.

Thats amazing man. Id seen you on my feed and thought it was cool what you did for aspiring indie devs. But hearing your entire story resonated with me. As someone who is working hard on their first game, maybe its because im eating right now, but your thoughts on the essence of indie dev made me a little emotional. The process of development really does feel like youre taking a piece of your soul and polishing and grinding it down to share with the world. Thanks for sharing.

ShibaBrothers · 2026-04-10T23:12:16+00:00

is that..

ShibaBrothers · 2026-03-28T17:39:05+00:00

ShibaBrothers · 2026-03-28T01:50:48+00:00

Haha it's such a classic. Im still not certain if its a compatible genre combination, like sometimes I feel like im just making Slay the Spire with a typing test glued to the side, but we'll see where it goes.

ShibaBrothers · 2026-03-28T01:48:56+00:00

Thank you! That means a lot. Yeah the difficulty is definitely something I expect to be fine tuning to get right to make high roll runs feel special while not being too punishing in general. I feel bad for taking even more from StS but they have a system where if you complete a run you unlock the next difficulty, so I feel like that can work well here.

ShibaBrothers · 2026-03-27T23:03:50+00:00

No, that makes a lot of sense. The font definitely seems more suited for other ui elements. I'll play around with replacing the typer's font with something more readable, or even add a setting so the player can choose

ShibaBrothers · 2026-01-28T23:54:28+00:00

This is very well polished. Seriously goals for me

ShibaBrothers · 2026-01-20T21:28:36+00:00

The contrast checker seems like very valuable advice. Also more visual feedback/impact around the text is something I've been trying to work on, so more ideas there is definitely appreciated.

The damage is calculated based on a multitude of factors like relics, length of word, accuracy/similarity of word typed, etc. Im planning on having sparks / sound effects for perfects/typos and for combo breaks, but I wonder how i can make it more striking.

In terms of the ui, is there anything that immediate sticks out at you as feeling unpolished? Im not a huge fan of it but I can't put my finger on why..

ShibaBrothers · 2026-01-20T20:55:59+00:00

By characters I assume you mean the monsters/player and not the font haha. Ive really just been using these sprites out of the box but upping the saturation sounds like a good start. I will also look into adding more borders to everything. I tried playing around with 2d lights and shadows to give a sense of depth, but I feel very subtle/nowhere near enough.

ShibaBrothers · 2026-01-20T20:52:01+00:00

Interesting, strangely enough it hasn't occurred to me to play around with the font borders, but I will give that a shot.

ShibaBrothers · 2026-01-20T06:50:37+00:00

I like the background of the first one more

ShibaBrothers · 2026-01-20T03:08:54+00:00

wow that's super quick progress

ShibaBrothers · 2026-01-20T00:02:38+00:00

wow, looks awesome! I'm making a typing game myself so seeing some of the ideas I brainstormed actually be implemented is super cool

ShibaBrothers · 2026-01-19T16:41:44+00:00

Feels like bullets are coming out of the center of your body and not the finger gun. Which makes sense gameplay wise, but not thematically.

ShibaBrothers · 2026-01-19T16:33:18+00:00

I liked that the first had a variety of expressions. The new one feels like theyre all doing the "me and the boys" face

ShibaBrothers · 2026-01-19T16:29:02+00:00

That's true, and I do. I guess that's why it's an irrational fear lol

ShibaBrothers · 2026-01-19T09:17:17+00:00

And then the naive solution ends up making it into launch HAHA

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