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Re: Show HN: Figure is a daily logic puzzle game

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Post by sumul »

parasti wrote: post #53

I couldn't figure out how the game is supposed to be played. I clicked some squares and something happened, but what? Your help screen doesn't contain any information about this. Maybe it's obvious once you know it?

Thanks for letting me know, and sorry if that was frustrating. Your goal is to clear away all the tiles. Tiles that are linked together clear together. Links are made when same-color tiles are contiguously adjacent to each other. Blank spaces are filled in from above. You have a fixed number of moves available to clear them all. Hope that helps!

Re: Show HN: Figure is a daily logic puzzle game

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Post by O__________O »

bagels wrote: post #57
O__________O wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wordle’s growth peaked shortly after it was bought for 1 million by the New York Times at roughly $3 per user. - To see the decline, here are some links: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=wordle - Look at the decline of tweets per day found here: https://mobile.twitter.com/WordleStats

Yes, if the goal was to make money, Wardle struck at exactly the right time, right at the peak.

More likely that part of the fun of sharing Wordle was it was not prompting a huge media company, as soon as NYT bought it, my guess is people were less likely to share it, especially other news organizations.

I was honestly surprised to see it had declined, since Wordle still shows up in top ten Google trends on almost a daily basis.

Re: Show HN: Figure is a daily logic puzzle game

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Post by sumul »

paulgb wrote: post #59
O__________O wrote: post #56

Curious, why did you pick a .game gTLD, which costs a few hundred a year, every year?

That stuck out to me as well, given the mention of free tiers on other services. The .game TLD's rates are unfortunately prohibitive for side project games. .games is affordable, though.

Fair point. I mention the free tiers because I found it to be really low friction to start building without worrying about the pricing of every little service and platform (I did make sure the paid tiers weren't going to be a huge issue or surprise once I was ready to graduate). I'm willing to invest a bit in side projects once they get to a certain point of maturity and have the potential to maybe pay for themselves someday, so at this point I'm paying for the domain, Vercel, Supabase, and the Streamline icons I use.

Re: Show HN: Figure is a daily logic puzzle game

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Post by onychomys »

sumul wrote: post #27
chresko wrote: post #17

Thanks a ton for making Figure colorblind friendly. Many/most tile matching games are color-based, making them difficult if not impossible to play!

Cheers! Curious to hear if it's friendly enough for you or if it feels like you're maybe having less fun than someone with full color vision.

I can't speak for everybody, but since the light green and the white are so close, I have to rely on shapes for those two instead. And then my dumb brain refuses to accept that squares and diamonds are different, lol. Maybe we could get either triangles or circles as one of those colors? Otherwise it's totally color-friendly!

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Post by sumul »

onychomys wrote: post #65
sumul wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cheers! Curious to hear if it's friendly enough for you or if it feels like you're maybe having less fun than someone with full color vision.

I can't speak for everybody, but since the light green and the white are so close, I have to rely on shapes for those two instead. And then my dumb brain refuses to accept that squares and diamonds are different, lol. Maybe we could get either triangles or circles as one of those colors? Otherwise it's totally color-friendly!

That's so helpful, thank you. I wonder if anyone would notice or care if I swapped the triangle for the square or diamond...
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