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Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic

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Re: Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic

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Post by TreeInBuxton »

yungporko wrote: post #158
dominicrose wrote: post #154

As someone who speaks English but doesn't live in the US or any other English-speaking country, this game is hard! I wish there was one for my native language and country culture to see the difference it makes.

i'm a native english speaker and even i can't complete most of these because it's so US-centric. this is virtually unplayable for non-americans, which is a shame because it's a really good game.

Agreed - I went through a few past ones, and unfortunately it just felt like you had to be fairly familiar with US products, landmarks, etc

I loved the concept, just not some of the clues

Re: Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic

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Post by thebruce87m »

InitialLastName wrote: post #5
brgross wrote: post #2

I posted Bracket City to HN on February 24th and the game went live yesterday on The Atlantic (!) The game will stay free to play (and not require logging in). Also, I'm still making all the puzzles! HN provided the first real infusion of players that weren't my mom's friends. So thanks everyone. FWIW The Atlantic's team is amazing and got this live exactly 2 weeks from when we signed the deal. This happened quick an…

Congrats! My only feedback is that it's irritating to be counted "wrong" for naming a correct answer whose clue hasn't been simplified completely yet.

Yep. Wrong for forgetting to spell in American English, wrong for plural vs singular and wrong for guessing the right word too early are annoying.

Re: Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic

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Post by hydrogen7800 »

ajjenkins wrote: post #45

Can you color code the brackets so it’s easy to see how the clues are nested? Like outermost brackets are red, one level of nesting is blue, next level of nesting is orange. My brain is having a hard time parsing all of the clues.

I was wondering if that is also part of the puzzle, trying to match the open and closed brackets, sort of like how excel highlights the corresponding parentheses when one is selected in the formula bar. This might be second nature for folks who code, but it requires a lot of focus for me.

Re: Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic

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Post by felideon »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #150
felideon wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Congrats! Some feedback, if you're taking any: - Without the tutorial, it's confusing that you're not supposed to click and you're supposed to start typing. I wonder if placing the text box at the top would make that more clear. - Some of the clues are confusing due to inconsistent punctuation. For example: [to ___fish, to lure someone in using a fake internet persona] = cat [do this or cut bait] = fish [taking a pay…

> Some of the clues are confusing due to inconsistent punctuation. > The first line uses a comma, the second line uses "or", the third and fourth lines don't have any punctuation at all, so the sentences make no sense. ... There is no inconsistency there. The 'or' and the comma in lines 1 and 2 are not parallel to each other; they're doing different things. Neither could be replaced by the other without changing the…

Good points. I think clue 3 is weird because what is a "pay one"? You can't take a "pay one", but I get how to read it now---it's like an anaphor for the word. But yes, for consistency a blank space would have worked: [taking a pay ____ is a bummer]

I think my confusion with clue 2 was that I had never heard of the idiom "[to] fish or cut bait" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_or_cut_bait

Re: Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic

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Post by adamc »

brgross wrote: post #2

I posted Bracket City to HN on February 24th and the game went live yesterday on The Atlantic (!) The game will stay free to play (and not require logging in). Also, I'm still making all the puzzles! HN provided the first real infusion of players that weren't my mom's friends. So thanks everyone. FWIW The Atlantic's team is amazing and got this live exactly 2 weeks from when we signed the deal. This happened quick an…

That's fantastic and congratulations!

Re: Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic

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Post by kfajdsl »

comex wrote: post #76
brgross wrote: post #2

I posted Bracket City to HN on February 24th and the game went live yesterday on The Atlantic (!) The game will stay free to play (and not require logging in). Also, I'm still making all the puzzles! HN provided the first real infusion of players that weren't my mom's friends. So thanks everyone. FWIW The Atlantic's team is amazing and got this live exactly 2 weeks from when we signed the deal. This happened quick an…

Some feedback: On mobile, why is there a custom keyboard? I found it pretty annoying. I kept getting missed taps, and at least one wrong guess due to a typo I didn’t catch before. It doesn’t seem like the system keyboard’s spellchecking would interfere with the puzzle, so why not just use it? Is it an issue with layout consistency? Otherwise I quite liked the puzzle.

Same feedback from me, puzzle was great but the custom keyboard is really hard to use, seems to misplace clicks a lot and it has no haptic feedback
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