Already love it, but can you fit it onto an iphone SE display please! Im scrolling and zooming all over the place (some of us like small phones :)
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#152Already love it, but can you fit it onto an iphone SE display please! Im scrolling and zooming all over the place (some of us like small phones :)
Would you mind sharing a screenshot of what it looks like for you currently? I am admittedly still learning how to best support cross-device compatibility. I have found that in the Chrome Dev Tools preview for certain devices, everything looks fine, but then in reality things don't fit properly
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#153The essence of any wildly popular single-player game = hard to win quickly + very hard to lose.
Yeah! That reminds me of something a game dev once taught me about single player games. (paraphrasing) "Almost all AAA titles are impossible _not_ to finish in a reasonable time. The entire challenge of balancing a single player game is to hide all the ways the game holds your hand, while making the player feel responsible for all the times you win."
Great comment. I've been playing UFO enemy unknown (the remake) recently and noticing how it fails at this. The original felt like a real simulation of aliens attacking the earth and were always on the brink of taking over. This one feels like a carefully paced story where unless I try really really hard everything is going to be just fine. Which takes away all the drama and hence a lot of the interest.
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah! That reminds me of something a game dev once taught me about single player games. (paraphrasing) "Almost all AAA titles are impossible _not_ to finish in a reasonable time. The entire challenge of balancing a single player game is to hide all the ways the game holds your hand, while making the player feel responsible for all the times you win."
Um.. elden ring?
Can you actually lose elden ring?
As far as I can tell it’s just time consuming not hard.
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#155Too difficult for me lmao.
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#156The limitations are immediately aggravating. Have to reuse correct letters and can't reuse incorrect letters.
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#157The limitations are immediately aggravating. Have to reuse correct letters and can't reuse incorrect letters.
That's the whole point.
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#158Closely related (meaning: I think it might be exactly the same game): Antiwordle, https://www.antiwordle.com/ . [EDITED to add:] Not exactly the same; with Antiwordle the idea is just to last as long as you can, rather than having a limit of 6, and it doesn't have undos. Also, UX-wise, I don't think Antiwordle tells you how many possibilities remain (win for Don't Wordle), and it doesn't have such slow tile-flipping…
The gameplay is a bit more like antiwordle's hard mode, in that it won't let you play a letter that you've eliminated in a particular column -- e.g. if you guess HELLO and antiwordle tells you you've got one green L and one grey L, you can still play CALLS or ALLOW in antiwordle's easy mode.
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#159It would be nice if there was a Give Up button. I got down to 30 possible words but could not for the life of me think of what they could be. I was craving that “Ohhhhh!!!!!” feeling when you see what the remaining possible words are.
Glad I'm not the only one. Got down to 20 possible words, but could not think of any that were valid choices given the letter/position constraints I had gotten to.
Did you think of focal?
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#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
No you are not allowed to do that. A grey square excludes the letter from the position, regardless of any yellow squares.
You are correct. Words with repeated letters are not a good strategy in this game.
They are a fantastic strategy, though if one happens to rob you of a lot of remaining words, you should undo it.