QWERTYS

I like how honest the launch post is about the difficulty. That’s exactly the kind of thing that’s hard to judge when you’ve played your own game too many times. Curious to try it and see where I hit the wall. If level 8 is the QWERTYS master test, I already know I’m probably in trouble.

Finally, a game that turns my typing mistakes into a gameplay mechanic

This looks simple in a dangerous way. I feel like knowing the keyboard layout and actually placing the keys under pressure are two diff skills. Are you tuning the difficulty based on player drop off points?

Are you planning different keyboard layouts too, like AZERTY or mobile keyboards?

This is a smart combination of two concepts. Finding the right spot on the keyboard layout while being under time pressure. As other posters mentioned muscle memory, do you provide QWERTZ as well?

the interesting design tension here is that most people have muscle memory for where keys are but not necessarily conscious knowledge of the layout. you might know where the A is without being able to picture the keyboard abstractly. curious whether people who type faster actually perform better at this or whether the spatial reasoning required is different enough from typing that it doesn't transfer. have you noticed any pattern in your playtesters

I feel to be back in 80s or 90s. Traveling back in time. 😸

I think the difficulty is a little off and I can't see it straight anymore, I've played this thing roughly four thousand times, so everything feels "normal" to me now, which is exactly the problem.

My hunch: Level 1 might be too gentle, and the jump right after it too mean. But I'd rather hear it from you. If you bounce off a level, breeze through one, or hit the wall at a specific spot, tell me where in the comments. I read every single one and I'll be tweaking based on what you say. 🙏

If you pass level 8, congratulations, you are a Tetris master. I mean QWERTYS beast :p..