121–130 of 261 posts
People generally look at me funny when I tell them the most useful thing I ever learned in high school was how to become a touch typist.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Great effort though, thanks!
etc.
Tons of fun for a while, but way too easy. I got to wave 22 without any of the ships getting more than one ship-height down the screen. Would love to see them moving a lot faster.
It'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…
var wpm = getWPM(); function levelDifficulty(num) { return getOldLevelDifficulty(num) * wpm * SOME_SCALING_CONST }
Hard 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.
I got caught by this too, but it was fun. It's the first time I have actually done a test that measures my typing speed without becoming bored after two sentences (I did 43 wpm, I don't even know if it is decent or not anyway).
Evon Latrail is the author of a children's book "When Mommy Went to Heaven". She wrote/recorded a few songs; "Lord Bless My Enemies" and "It Is Time" happens to be two of the titles. She even has a song entitled, "Can't You See (Abortion Is Murder). She went Pro-life after having a abortion! Really???? Now here is a photo of her posing in chocolate as a "Swamp Girl". The word Hypocrite is floating around somewhere. This story has made front page news in the local paper. How can this so called "Gospel Artist" be a role model is she's posing news? For more on this story.....Go to Google or YouTube and search, Evon Latrail.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I still see no challenge in expert mode. Please make a harder mode :)
Expert mode was easy until you get the bigger ships throwing the whole alphabet in one-letter tiles at you. I keep starting to type a longer word and it only destroys a tiny one-letter item instead, and then starts matching something else entirely and I have to waste time finding what it focused on. I can get up to around 110wpm without errors in a general typing test, but because of this constant mistargeting, I was…