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Re: Show HN: I built a jigsaw puzzle website

#31
I clicked on the site just to check it out and ended up spending 15 minutes on your demo puzzle... well played.

Awesome job on all the user interactions. The dragging controls are pretty intuitive, it always did what I expected, and it's very smooth/seamless. The little touches like the autorotation are very helpful. I can imagine that having really great interactions differentiates this from many other similar sites so good job there.

Re: Show HN: I built a jigsaw puzzle website

#32
post #3

moving the pieces cause them to rotate (to the correct position). Doesn't that make the puzzle super easy if you know how everything is oriented?

Yeah, this is something I'm considering still. I've heard from a few users that they don't like the pieces being rotated at all, and some would rather have click-to-rotate to make it more difficult. I might have to make this an option, but waiting to hear from more users on this before deciding.

I agree, it takes out a large degree of freedom from the puzzle. I like the double click to rotate idea

Re: Show HN: I built a jigsaw puzzle website

#33
Hi, firstly great job on the app - really nice. I tried to do the demo puzzle on my touchscreen laptop, but while the dragging worked very nicely, I wasn't sure how to actually rotate the pieces myself (seemed to happen randomly when tapping the piece), would be nice to have a clearer way to interact, e.g. double tap to rotate 90 degrees.

Re: Show HN: I built a jigsaw puzzle website

#34

Hi, firstly great job on the app - really nice. I tried to do the demo puzzle on my touchscreen laptop, but while the dragging worked very nicely, I wasn't sure how to actually rotate the pieces myself (seemed to happen randomly when tapping the piece), would be nice to have a clearer way to interact, e.g. double tap to rotate 90 degrees.

They seem to rotate to the correct position automatically

Re: Show HN: I built a jigsaw puzzle website

#35
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I just did the demo puzzle on an iPhone (11 Pro running 15.1), and I found it worked surprisingly well for a phone screen, and I didn’t have any problems completing it. Nicely done.

Thanks! Glad to hear it worked well. I really need to add pinch to zoom to improve the experience on all touchscreen devices.

Works great on mobile, no need for the message on the Home Screen in my opinion

Re: Show HN: I built a jigsaw puzzle website

#36
post #3

moving the pieces cause them to rotate (to the correct position). Doesn't that make the puzzle super easy if you know how everything is oriented?

Yeah, this is something I'm considering still. I've heard from a few users that they don't like the pieces being rotated at all, and some would rather have click-to-rotate to make it more difficult. I might have to make this an option, but waiting to hear from more users on this before deciding.

More game options is generally not great. Especially if you want to have things like leaderboards. I'd say implement double-click to rotate and have puzzle size be the single dimension of difficulty. And maybe add an even easier option, as the current easy setting still takes a while.

Re: Show HN: I built a jigsaw puzzle website

#39
Pieces are missing! I scrolled around everywhere and couldn’t find them. Yes I differentiated between scrolling the canvas versus the pieces versus the completed portion. If this is how the demo works, it’s kind of off putting since it punishes you for just trying it out. Even if I was interested I would not sign up for a site that does this. At least there should be a warning up front before you waste time on the demo: “You will not be able to fully complete the demo puzzles.”
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