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Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

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Post by AbraKdabra »

moron4hire wrote: post #24

"Made with Impact" made me bounce before the page could fully load after waiting a full 10 seconds and it was still only halfway done. Maybe I would have stuck around if I had a clue what I was waiting for. From the other comments I'm guessing it's a game? I know, I could go back and do it now, but a typing game doesn't interest me personally too much. Just my mood right now, I'm sure your game is fun. Hope you have…

You can't critic something if you don't even try it. I've been reading this kind of messages really often at HN and I wish these people can't even enter HN to post, it should be forbidden.

Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

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Post by gavinpc »

rejoinder wrote: post #15
plus9z wrote: post #7

Does anyone else have trouble seeing the words with the font that they use?

yes, hard font to read, looks like impact. And it's too small. When the letters scatter - the radial bursts - never sure if it's an l an i or a j?

The font got to me eventually. But I'll be back.

What I'd like to see is a report of keys I need to work on. Or the game could just emphasize them in challenge rounds. Even after twenty years of touch typing and a hacked keyboard [0], I still have trouble with the 'xcvb' cluster. So yeah, I guess I know my problem area.

Update, it was the 'j' that did me in. I couldn't decide if it was an 'i' or an 'l'. Impact culpa.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6287701

Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

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Post by moron4hire »

AbraKdabra wrote: post #31
moron4hire wrote: post #24

"Made with Impact" made me bounce before the page could fully load after waiting a full 10 seconds and it was still only halfway done. Maybe I would have stuck around if I had a clue what I was waiting for. From the other comments I'm guessing it's a game? I know, I could go back and do it now, but a typing game doesn't interest me personally too much. Just my mood right now, I'm sure your game is fun. Hope you have…

You can't critic something if you don't even try it. I've been reading this kind of messages really often at HN and I wish these people can't even enter HN to post, it should be forbidden.

Look, I'm just saying that there is no information about what we're trying to wait for going into a long loading process. Perhaps there are more people who are bouncing, too. I'm just trying to provide a bit of information about my experience that might help the OP enhance their thing to help people understand it better.

Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

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Post by baby »

I really like it, I saw this a long time ago but I didn't remember the ships shooting. The bad thing is that there is no real difficulty, I stopped playing because I was bored in the end. You should def. add another level of difficulty for people like me, and I wish this game was in french as well as I'm not used to typing in english that much.

ps : and when I say increase the difficulty, you can increase it a loooot. It's way too easy (and yes expert mode obviously).

Re: Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It

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Post by Kiro »

bbx wrote: post #26

Off topic: I knew this domain looked familiar. It's home of Asaph, a great micro-blogging tool: http://phoboslab.org/projects/asaph This was before I discovered Tumblr and GitHub (where it's currently hosted). I actually used it for a recent side project: http://impecrateur.fr

And the home of ImpactJS, one of the best HTML5 game frameworks. Dominic is an inspiration overall.
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