Fontemon
Games
font game
SHOW HN2021
605points
76comments
#32of 2,533 in 2021
Top 2%of 2021 by points
How HN took it
LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
19 positive, 27 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 3 critical, out of 53 comments about the project. Thread score +0.43.
Idea: 9 for, 0 againstDesign: 3 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Impressive polish and technical creativity
From 3 comments
Absolutely awesome! I'm impressed by the level of polish, this is waay beyond the usual POCs you see for hacks like this. For me, the tl;dr from the technical explanation was…
skrebbel on HNI'm in shock and awe. I knew GSUB can computationally do such things, but didn't know there is no defined maximum substitution limit even in practice and it is only limited by…
lifthrasiir on HNBack in my day, all we had was a pixel. (seriously, very fun!)
m463 on HN
Fun game with humour and puns
From 2 comments
> you have chosen... unwisely. This is the worst one. Not only is this a brilliantly hilarious piece of tech, the humour in the game ain't bad either. Great job!
Benjamin_Dobell on HNLoving some of the puns: Helvetikhan lol
PhillyG on HN
Objections
Hard to play on mobile
From 1 comment
(edit, typing into the box where the pictures happen is easy enough, it's just typing in the bottom box that is very awkward because of constantly scrolling back up to see tiny…
PhillyG on HN
Doesn't work reliably in many text programs
From 4 comments
Thanks! Just played through fontemon now (I think, the final battle is unbeatable right? I think I tried every move combo). Had a bit of trouble getting it to work in system…
wheybags on HNYeah it still has a lot of quirks. On libre office, you have to change the font size to size 2px (and zoom in) or so to play the game all the way through without resetting. Same…
ghub-mmulet on HNAmazing project! Had fun in the web version, although I didn't manage to make the game font work on any of my available text editors on Mac. (I tried in Pages, TextEdit, Sketch,…
MadMatt13 on HNI wasn't able to get it to run on Microsoft Word or Adobe Flash CS5, but finally got it running on paint.net, and have to say I am amazed!
bashmelek on HN
Requests
Speedrun or copy-paste ideas
From 1 comment
Somebody should do a speedrun of this game. Is copy pasting considered tool assist?
oceliker on HN
Questions
How to get past the final battle and find secret endings
From 3 comments
Thanks! Just played through fontemon now (I think, the final battle is unbeatable right? I think I tried every move combo). Had a bit of trouble getting it to work in system…
wheybags on HNMaybe my in game hints were too subtle. You can beat it, but spoilers You have to keep going past the ending (GameOver) keep typing. You'll revive and beat the boss.
ghub-mmulet on HNIs it just me or is the game unwinnable?
paraknight on HN
Alternatives named
Dungeons and Directories
From 1 comment
Amazing! I absolutely love projects like this, where you put a game in somewhere it clearly wasn't meant to be. I made a game you play in your file browser[0] before, and I have…
wheybags on HN
Rubik's cube font by Just van Rossum
From 1 comment
this is a great abuse of GSUB tables just van rossum’s rubik’s cube is another recent example of font layout gone too far:…
tribby on HN