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For me this “game” can be summarrized as: First guess. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. The application won’t let me do anything even mildly suboptimal, and it’s not fun at all (aside from a brain exercise).
The limitations are immediately aggravating. Have to reuse correct letters and can't reuse incorrect letters.
That's the whole point.
My team and I build fun instant games. Many of them are actually word games. We saw your post and found your thoughts very interesting!
We would love to chat and explore how we could maybe work on new games together! Lmk what's the best way to connect:)
Hello! I am the creator of Don’t Wordle. Really excited to see this took off today. I thought I would share some background about the game, some of the iterations I went through, and some of the future features I would like to add. Background: Like many others, I have been playing Wordle daily. Recently, my Wordle win streak hit 99. I was admittedly very careful with my guesses on Day 100, not wanting to ruin my stre…
As it's very unlikely you have every word in your list.
The limitations are immediately aggravating. Have to reuse correct letters and can't reuse incorrect letters.
That's the whole point.
Though I guess to be fair Wordle doesn't force hard mode, so it seems this version shouldn't either.
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Great game. Doesn't it push players towards a strategy of working out the solution 'offline', though? I mean, you start by playing almost the same as standard Wordle, just to guess the answer, without entering it. Then undo everything. Next, figure out a solution which avoids that word. Finally, type in your entire solution. This could be a bit grindy, and not in the spirit of the game, but it seems like almost assur…
I agree with your take. It's definitely a problem with the current game format. I have thought through some different alternatives, but not a fan of any of them up to this point.
What if you scored like wordle but based on undos? 1 undo used, 2 undos used... Up to 5 undos used. This incentivizes the user to try and not undo if possible.
I think the eliminated score method is kind of redundant with the wordled scoring, just make the player guess the 1 word left and be wordled?
Really cool and fun idea, we had a great time playing with it and probably will add it to our daily rotation.
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> One of the reasons I suspect that Wordle is popular is that it's "calibrated" (word length, number of guesses, don't have to play on hard mode) to almost always be winnable if you have some semblance of a decent English vocabulary and some sense for letter combinations. Seems like the perfect popular game: be easy enough for most everyone to get, but just hard enough to give a feeling of mastery. I had a similar fe…
Easy to learn, impossible to master is actually one of the classic tenets of game design. I'm genuinely curious, did you hear this or variant somewhere before, or did you come up with this on your own?
I came up with it on my own. I derived it from some introspection on how Guitar Hero made me feel, and realizing it tricked me into feeling a false sense of competence, like I could actually play those songs well.
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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?
Soulsborne games succeed because of exactly this. And you might notice that they’re drifting towards mainstream and that’s actually causing them to shed all the little details of what makes a Soulsborne game.
Elden Ring was ridiculously forgiving and I found it boringly easy. But it made me go back to Demon’s Souls.
SPOILER WARNING. There seems to be a bug. I guessed 'rhyme', 'build', 'tonal', and 'local'. Then it said that I must use an UNDO. It doesn't let me enter 'vocal' and 'focal' to win.