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Can you add action buttons? The directional buttons were easy enough to infer, but not sure what other types of input are possible. (I’m on mobile)
I'm not on mobile and I also cannot figure out where the action button is. One can get as far as finding the sword, but I have to idea how to pick it up.
Use the Shift key to pick up the sword. And I think Space to attack and the Up cursor key to block when you get to the swordsman.
I think the spikes behave a bit differently than original, but I haven't compared. You can't run through them because they will activate and kill you, but you can slow walk safely. But in this implementation I slowed walked right on top of them (they activated but didn't kill me - that's correct) and then I started to run and I was killed instantly.
I'm not sure things are so different now, perhaps we are looking at the past through rose colored glasses.
Awesome! Takes me back :) My 8 yo son is playing it now, he knows all the modern consoles, but this is challenging him. He is frustrated things are hard from the beginning, jumps don't work right away and he stopped after a few minutes. I remember my perseverance as a kid. I was thinking about that lately, I see my kids don't have this strong motivation as I had, not for anything. Everything works for them and is lay…
If you want to counteract this tendency, consider getting them into (competitive) sports. Nothing will work right away, they will have to „grind“ (train/practice) a lot, failures are all but certain; but hard work and perseverance get rewarded, and the successes are all the sweeter. As a young guy who has had a modern and easy childhood not unlike the one you describe, many of my most cherished memories come from com…
Soooooo, walkthroughs weren't a thing when you were kids? They definitely existed for every space/police/kings quest game, and many others. I'm not sure things are so different now, perhaps we are looking at the past through rose colored glasses.
Awesome! Takes me back :) My 8 yo son is playing it now, he knows all the modern consoles, but this is challenging him. He is frustrated things are hard from the beginning, jumps don't work right away and he stopped after a few minutes. I remember my perseverance as a kid. I was thinking about that lately, I see my kids don't have this strong motivation as I had, not for anything. Everything works for them and is lay…
> I see my kids don't have much of these challenges, everything works for them. This is one of the reasons I recommend teaching kids C++ early. Between build systems, ABI issues, compiler error messages, and undefined behavior it really builds perseverance and a great sense of accomplishment when your program compiles and runs correctly. I am not aware of any other production language that gives that sense of accompl…
There is an effort we can put in teaching our kids c++ and even better if we can start them on leetcode at an early age
This will help them improve their problem solving ability and they will also get frustrated when they are not able to solve a hard graph problem.
But the hardest problem never is the problem itself, but the inability to keep on going when the problem seems very hard.
When kids learn how to handle that and when all the kids in the world know how to handle that, then surely we are looking at a future generation that will help solve all the hard problems that we are not able to solve like World Proverty, income inequality and global warming.
Awesome! Takes me back :) My 8 yo son is playing it now, he knows all the modern consoles, but this is challenging him. He is frustrated things are hard from the beginning, jumps don't work right away and he stopped after a few minutes. I remember my perseverance as a kid. I was thinking about that lately, I see my kids don't have this strong motivation as I had, not for anything. Everything works for them and is lay…
Soooooo, walkthroughs weren't a thing when you were kids? They definitely existed for every space/police/kings quest game, and many others. I'm not sure things are so different now, perhaps we are looking at the past through rose colored glasses.