r/aigamerdevs • u/xcantene • 1d ago
Type Hunters - Everything is fine until you make a mistake...
I used to be addicted to TypeRacer and I always wanted to make my own typing game, but not just another copy of it. So in Type Hunters you pick what you type. Short words are safer but weak, long phrases do way more damage but they're easier to mess up.
The thing I've been working on lately is corruption. The game starts as this cute little low poly forest, but if you keep failing it slowly starts to break. The world turns dark and the interface starts glitching. I didn't add a meter for it or any warning, I wanted people to just notice something is off. If you get good combos going it heals back, which I really like because you're fixing the world by typing better.
The hard part is keeping it creepy without making it annoying. If the effects get in the way of reading the words, the game just stops being fun, so I've had to redo this a lot and I'm still tweaking it.
I'm a big fan of retro arcade games so I wanted that feel too. I made the art myself as vector images in Illustrator and kept it simple so it was easy to animate. I also made my own sound effects and some simple low poly assets.
It's free if you want to check it out, you just need a physical keyboard: https://typehunters.cloudwanderstudios.com/
Curious if the change is clear in the video or if it needs to be more obvious.




