I enjoy the concept, and think you could be onto something - but it seemed a bit too easy to be satisfying. I think the path to solving the puzzle is a bit too straightforward. That is, removing a letter one by one WILL get you to the solution, and there’s not enough of a cognitive work-out to figure out the next one to remove.
I don’t have a solution mind you, but having made Stackdown and been on a similar journey, I needed the feedback to get it where it is now.
It can be a slog to build and release a game like this, so well done on getting it out! Personally, I think it’s quite well polished UI wise. UX wise I guess keyboard input as others have said would be nice. On mobile I really want to drag the letters to re-order them, - but - at the same time it works just fine. We’ve had loads of feedback for https://puzzlist.com/stackdown and I felt pretty overwhelmed so if you feel like that, be encouraged, squint your eyes and see all the positivity from what you’ve made!
Was tickled when I saw the fork feature. I’ve often thought recipe sites missed that and coming from a software dev background I guess it seems obvious where we’ve got used to forking in git. It was on the roadmap for my stab at a recipe site: https://osomatsu.net
It seems such a shame to forego a literal dinner-fork as an icon for the feature though? :)
Really love this, kudos for making it! Can listen to the Sonic 2 soundtrack on loop for hours.
Just a note to say that on MacOS Safari none of the icons or fonts seem to want to load. Looking at the console it appears to be lots of CORS-related issues. I.e, "Cancelled load to <a package url> because it violates the resource's Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy response header."
Just tried it and, apart from the UI being highly confusing (you just get a blank workspace basically, and it's unclear how to see other DBs and objects in them) it seems to have no support for PG schemas. When I did manage to connect to my DB it showed me the tables in the "public" schema only.
In that case I think the strategy would be to create a lead and then let all the balls through so that the game ends. At the start I was winning but at some point I wasn't able to keep up anymore.
Ah, thanks. I paused and came back here, saw this comment, then went back and let the balls go by. Okay, I'll be honest, I accidentally unpaused early and they went by before I had a chance to think about whether I had enough of a lead. I did! Final score 405, the difference between my score and the bot's.
I didn’t know it was when no balls were left. So this time I got an initial game, jumped ahead after using a special, then let all balls pass. I won by two points! :)
https://www.osomatsu.net/ — a little recipe writing and sharing website that me and my wife (and some close relatives) have been using over the last few years. Have got plenty of ideas to implement on it, but it works well for us as is at the moment. People can request to join for free if it could be useful for them too.
A couple things I love from the recipe app I use (cookbook), which you could steal:
- Clicking on a step or an ingredient strikes it through
- on larger screens (eg tablet), it’s a horizontal split screen between ingredients and steps
- automated conversion between imperial/metric.
- Could go even further with unit conversion for common ingredients (what the hell does a _cup_ of butter mean, it’s not a freakin liquid why would you use a volume unit, give me goddamn weight) and tips (volume of salt is very different depending on what salt you use)
No pictures? I get 50% of the information of a recipe based on the picture of the final dish. I don't buy recipe books if they don't have pictures of the final dish of each recipe
I don’t have a solution mind you, but having made Stackdown and been on a similar journey, I needed the feedback to get it where it is now.
Keep going!
Oh, also I really like the tidy design.