Great game, horrible title
Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It
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#212Very clever --things have come quite a ways since Mavis Beacon. I see the WPM in this, but what about accuracy? Should you be able to recover the word when you mistype it?
In any case, a fine example of game-reward theory tying into feedback loops for education.
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#2133876 points, 95,3%, 57 wpm
loaded very fast, executed without lags on chrome,macbook air mid-2011
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#214Using Chromium on Linux Mint (an Ubuntu-based distribution), the loading bar freezes near the end. Firefox works fine.
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#215Great work! Take that Mavis Beacon!
Like some noted, the difficulty curve could use a tweak or two -- but overall it was fun.
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#216It'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…
For the scaling thing, the topic you want to research is Bayesian averaging. The folks behind typewar talk about it a bit.
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#217Wow, brought back a memory of when Impact first came out and this was one of the initial demos. A few of us went on to build a hackathon app using it a few weeks later, and it was a very pleasant experience. I remember the Impact creator failed a Facebook interview over a sqrt question and it was popular on HN for a few days: https://twitter.com/phoboslab/status/24910672471007232
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#218I like these kinds of games. I usually have a game like this that I bring out a couple times a week to help my brain warm up in the morning.
Could we get a URL that goes straight to a specific level? That would be easier than repeatedly going through the first handful to get to the challenging ones.
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#219Having a lot of fun with it over here. Our request is cooperative (or coopetition) multiplayer.
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#220I love your game. I discovered it on a forum mid-2012 and used it to break into and get comfortable with an unprinted happy hacking keyboard. Nice choice of music too, I usually turn off background music wherever I find it. Could you tell us what is the music that plays in the background?