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Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It
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#92Nice game. I remember playing it some time ago, and quitting because of boredom once getting in the high (30+) levels. I think it was one of the first "little" games using html5 instead of flash. I see that they've introduced a new "expert" mode, which is indeed a lot harder. I've reached level 10 so far, but I'll give it a serious try sometime. The biggest problem for me is the language. I type a lot of English, but…
I still see no challenge in expert mode. Please make a harder mode :)
Author of the game here.
It's quite interesting how damn near impossible it is to balance a game like that. When I first released it, it had no expert mode. I tried to make the normal mode challenging for most people without making it too frustrating. The feedback I got was mostly "it's way too easy", but I also got a few comments, particularly on Kongregate and other sites that appeal to younger users that "it's way too hard".
I also got a few emails from school teachers wanting to use the game with their students. Even the normal mode can be extremely frustrating. To please everyone I would need at least 3 or 4 different settings, I guess.
tl;dr: The touch typing speed among the population is fantastically diverse.
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#93Hard to see the words when they start stacking. And worse, you start typing a word and it picks a different word from the one you wanted and you have switch contexts. That's the hardest part of the game, not the typing.
Same, I think if the ship was placed in the center of the playable zone, and the words came radially towards it, that I would be slightly better at it.
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#94It's not that your game is too hard or too easy. You can dive in a little deeper. It's that your difficulty curve is not tuned properly. IMO you can tune it statically (follow most of the advice here, make it harder). Or, you can use some very basic dynamic difficulty shifting (If they complete the first level in >wpm, ramp up the difficulty, or adjust the difficulty curve as needed). See this great video from Extra…
This is definitely a good idea, but way harder to implement that it looks on the surface.
I already spent about 40 hours tuning the game to what it is now and it still sucks. Tuning a dynamic difficulty system would take even more time, mostly testing.
And then of course there's the question of what happens with the highscores. If one player is presented with a simpler game than the next, scores are not comparable at all. So a ranking to "prove you're typing hacker" would be difficult as well.
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#95I'm asking myself what the minimum system requirements for those web tech demos are. Until some time ago I had an old Core 2 Duo Macbook Pro from 2009 and whenever I tried running something like this the browser came to a halt. I assumed that it was because of my ancient hardware. But now I got a new Haswell i5 quadcore system and the game still locks up my browser. So where's the secret to being able to enjoy these…
HTML5/Canvas games are mostly bound by drawing performance. Modern browsers use hardware acceleration where available, but it could very well be that your GPU is black listed for missbehaving OpenGL drivers. Intel GPUs are the worst offender here.
If you have proper hardware acceleration, a game like this should run fluidly even on low end systems. Case in point: the similar looking X-Type ( http://phoboslab.org/xtype/ ) runs with a steady 60fps on an iPhone4S.
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#96Along with the game being quite enjoyable, anyone else enjoy the nice instrumental in the background? Quite relaxing while trying to type like a mad man.
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#97It all hurts now!
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
What long loading process? The pages load in less than a second. Personally, from the title of the post I knew I was going to get a typing game.
I thought it was going to be a weird job posting, actually. And it really did take more than 10 seconds for it to load even 50% for me.
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#99That's awesome. I got to level 35 with 95.8% accuracy and 45 wpm. I need to practice...
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#100Awesome game. While most commenters want it faster, can the game creator make another level to start even slower for kids. My 5 year old wants to play, but ends up crying because she can't keep up. This game would be great for her to learn the keys.