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Re: Show HN: Tetris with words – I created this small game, please give feedback

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Hi I'm the creator of http://wordsmashing.com , awesome game, needs some music graphics sounds levels polish ect, I think it's interesting having to manually click to your word and click destroy, made the game feel a bit harder and slower paced to me but perhaps some advanced wordies would like that, I would make it automatic if 3 or more letters

Hi,Thanks for the feedback. I'm trying different ideas to make gameplay experience better. Btw nice game.

Re: Show HN: Tetris with words – I created this small game, please give feedback

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I noticed the game feels pretty hard because of the letter distribution, if you want to make it easier you might try using the english distribution, which can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequency#Relative_freq...

For those curious the rough differences (in game - in english, out of 100) are:

e: -4.7 t: -2.5 c: 2.4 h: -2.3 p: 2.3 u: 1.9 b: 1.6 m: 1.6 l: 1.5 g: 1.4 r: 1.4 k: 1 x: 1 z: 0.8 o: -0.7 n: -0.6 f: 0.5 j: 0.5 v: 0.5 y: 0.5 d: 0.4 a: -0.3 q: 0.2 s: -0.2 w: 0.2 i: 0.1

edit: this might go too far towards making it easy, but you could also try and group common pairs of letter near each other.

Re: Show HN: Tetris with words – I created this small game, please give feedback

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post #13

I noticed the game feels pretty hard because of the letter distribution, if you want to make it easier you might try using the english distribution, which can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequency#Relative_freq... For those curious the rough differences (in game - in english, out of 100) are: e: -4.7 t: -2.5 c: 2.4 h: -2.3 p: 2.3 u: 1.9 b: 1.6 m: 1.6 l: 1.5 g: 1.4 r: 1.4 k: 1 x: 1 z: 0.8 o: -0.7…

Actually I tried to implement same. check code here

https://github.com/AbhishekCode/word-tetris/blob/master/src/...

I guess my implementation is still not perfect. I looking for ways to improved this. Thanks for pointing this out.

Re: Show HN: Tetris with words – I created this small game, please give feedback

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post #17

I think the dictionary should be more complete. The first word I composed was "kelp" and it didn't identified it as a valid word. Or maybe it's completely broken in Firefox, the "destroy" button doesn't appear.

It seems the player needs to click words to make them vanish, while letters continue falling - this is the first thing that should be changed.

Re: Show HN: Tetris with words – I created this small game, please give feedback

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post #17

I think the dictionary should be more complete. The first word I composed was "kelp" and it didn't identified it as a valid word. Or maybe it's completely broken in Firefox, the "destroy" button doesn't appear.

I see, as of now you have to select it in 'right' sequence,

which means first K then e , l and finally p.

this is an issue, i should sort it. I will fix this soon. Thanks.

Re: Show HN: Tetris with words – I created this small game, please give feedback

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post #18
post #17

I think the dictionary should be more complete. The first word I composed was "kelp" and it didn't identified it as a valid word. Or maybe it's completely broken in Firefox, the "destroy" button doesn't appear.

It seems the player needs to click words to make them vanish, while letters continue falling - this is the first thing that should be changed.

ok this is common issue. i will fix.
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