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Re: Game about squares

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Post by pdpi »

ardemue wrote: post #108

Really liked the game, but I'm colorblind and it blocked me on level 20: I can't tell which square should go on which circle ( http://imgur.com/CX7XWJ4 ). I genuinely played that level as if the two bottom squares were the same. Maybe you could add another differentiator, like a different shape.

It's always a bit of a shame when software provides no affordances for the colourblind. It's not nearly as uncommon as some people think it to be. Games and visualisation software tend to be particularly bad culprits in this.

(Also, you want the one on the left)

Re: Game about squares

#112

Post by MattHeard »

pdpi wrote: post #111
ardemue wrote: post #108

Really liked the game, but I'm colorblind and it blocked me on level 20: I can't tell which square should go on which circle ( http://imgur.com/CX7XWJ4 ). I genuinely played that level as if the two bottom squares were the same. Maybe you could add another differentiator, like a different shape.

It's always a bit of a shame when software provides no affordances for the colourblind. It's not nearly as uncommon as some people think it to be. Games and visualisation software tend to be particularly bad culprits in this. (Also, you want the one on the left)

While software should be designed with accessibility in mind, ideally this could be managed by the display, allowing applications to be agnostic to the needs of colour blind users. Would it be possible for displays to insert a colour-transformation layer to shift all colours to different palettes which are more distinct for each type of colour blindness? This might only work for partial colour blindness, but does anybody have an idea of accessibility software like this?

Re: Game about squares

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Post by ardemue »

pdpi wrote: post #111
ardemue wrote: post #108

Really liked the game, but I'm colorblind and it blocked me on level 20: I can't tell which square should go on which circle ( http://imgur.com/CX7XWJ4 ). I genuinely played that level as if the two bottom squares were the same. Maybe you could add another differentiator, like a different shape.

It's always a bit of a shame when software provides no affordances for the colourblind. It's not nearly as uncommon as some people think it to be. Games and visualisation software tend to be particularly bad culprits in this. (Also, you want the one on the left)

Thanks for the tip! But after trying for a while (remembering the positions of these 2 squares), I lost patience and closed the tab. But it lost my progress, even though the game told me that it was saving my progress at each level.

That's really too bad, because the game is very fun.

Re: Game about squares

#114

Post by ppod »

integricho wrote: post #43
laxatives wrote: post #13

I like the game and that it teaches you the rules as you play without needing any explicit instructions. I thought some of the comments between levels were annoying. Also the little flag in the corner indicating you're over the correct target could be a little easier to see at a glance. Just curious, how do you design these levels? Work backwards from the solution? edit: I'm a little further in, and I'm starting to t…

I specifically liked the comments between levels, it was obvious what he did there after the second message :)

Are you from the US? I'm from the UK and I really liked the comments too. I really find that people from the US are more likely to dislike humour in this kind of game. Especially Californians.

Re: Game about squares

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Post by coder23 »

wubbfindel wrote: post #80
coder23 wrote: post #40

I gave up on level 28. Solving it would require pen and paper or some serious thought. The difficulty curve is excellent.

I've gotten to 31 without the need for pen & paper - but yes, your right, the difficulty balancing is great. It's had me scratching my head a couple of times, but not so much to cause me to quit. Sign of a good game.

No idea why you got downvoted.

Such silliness really drives me away from hn.

Re: Game about squares

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Post by abuddy »

meh_master wrote: post #94
abuddy wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google would probably ban the developer for life. Not sure about iTunes AppStore.

Is that hyperbole or would Google actually do that? I'm not familiar with the Play Store or Android in general but it seems like a lot of clones and cheap ripoffs are available.

It's not a hyperbole but it's hard to say what Google would do in that situation, but I've read some stories of people getting banned.

For example, this story: https://medium.com/@sgehrman/banned-for-life-c62f2404f66

Relevant excerpts:

One day I saw my son watching Khan Academy videos on YouTube and I wondered if I could make the experience easier for kids. [...] Wouldn’t it be cool if the could just click an app and instantly watch? So this was the initial inspiration and I wrote a simple YouTube client app using the latest YouTube APIs to watch Khan Academy videos. [...] The good thing about this app idea is that I can take any YouTube channel id, plug it into and now I’ve got another new app. So, one day I posted 10 apps to the play store with a few of my favorite YouTube channels and the Khan Academy channel and it was kind of exciting. [...] A few weeks went by and I got an email stating one of my apps had been suspended. [...] The suspension email stated that I was trying to impersonate another company, and that this was forbidden. [...] After a few more weeks another app was suspended. And again I thought: “OK, 2 down 8 more to go, that’s cool.” I was planning on taking all these apps down in a few weeks anyway. Another few weeks go by and a third app was suspended and also my entire Google play account was terminated for life.

3 apps suspensions and you're banned for life. Different rules apply for different violations, for copying someone's else code I think they would ban for life.

Re: Game about squares

#118

Post by mlent »

ppod wrote: post #114
integricho wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I specifically liked the comments between levels, it was obvious what he did there after the second message :)

Are you from the US? I'm from the UK and I really liked the comments too. I really find that people from the US are more likely to dislike humour in this kind of game. Especially Californians.

I'm from the US, born in California, and I definitely enjoy the comments :)

Re: Game about squares

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Post by skeletonjelly »

netcraft wrote: post #4
brkn wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You have to move the squares on the circle by clicking on the square.

interesting - its working in firefox but not in chrome 36.

As mentioned above, if the game detects touch capable browser (which new Chrome versions do if you're on Win8 I believe) it'll block mouse input.
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