I clicked this after seeing it on HN for a day straight.. was not disappointed and now hooked.
Are You A Typing Hacker? Prove It
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#222This game is over 5 years old. Come on guys :(
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#223To the author: if you're filtering this word list at all, you should probably know that I encountered "cumming".
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#224Hard 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 type really fast (120+ wpm) and a big problem I had with this game was making one typo and not realizing it until I'd already typed 3-4 more words. Then I'd have to go back, find the one typo I made, finish that word, then re-type all the other words that the game had ignored my typing in the meantime. This is actually what killed me in the end.
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#225I got up to level 13 then got thrown off kilter by the cluster bombs.
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#226All I want to say is I got to level 27 on expert mode and I'm quite proud of this fact.
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#227Checkout MasterType http://bit.ly/1a03jfe , one of the best selling games of 80s for Apple II, Atari, VIC-20, PC, etc. Sold more than a million copies. This is same idea with vertical Tetris-like layout with better graphics but little dynamic pacing and learning support. I worked on Apple II double-res version. Despite bad graphics by current standard, it had two major features: 1. Dynamic learning and pacing 2. Magi…
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#228"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.
OP was not saying that he tried the game, he was saying that he tried to load the game and this is exactly what his critique was aimed at.
FYI - I had the same experience.
I waited for like 20-40 seconds for the stuff to load and then left the site...
Do you think such user experience feedback would be valid for your own project?
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#229The game is cool, you need to give people a way to invest in it though.
Once you're finished with the game, you should ask for people's emails to post them on a scoreboard.
You can then re-engage people by sending them an email when their rank starts falling etc
I think this has a lot of potential, you just need to harness it in the right way.
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#230very cool stuff - I would love to learn this way "standard expressions" in coding language, i.e. per level you programme a specific function or so....(off the top of my head)