Show HN: Game of Bins - Javascript Puzzle Game • Hacker News Board

pdb123 wrote: post #3

simpleglider wrote: post #2

I welcome any comments on gameplay!

Not a question about gameplay, but I have mixed feeling about the affiliate links on a show HN post. Maybe it's not the place for profiteering?

Hmm yeah I see where you're coming from. A lot of affiliate marketing seems really sleazy to me as well. Here I'm trying to provide a bit of value on top of the advertisement.

Rather than buying search ads and making money of pure arbitrage, I made a game that might inspire people to read about the technologies used in the game. Then I follow up with links.

Re: Show HN: Game of Bins - Javascript Puzzle Game

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Post by hfsktr » Thu, Sep 19, 2013, 1:25 PM UTC

Not really gameplay but the tutorial was slow (paced). I understood most of it by reading the text but still had to wait for the animations and had no way of skipping them.

Overall it was actually more difficult than it appeared on the face of it.

Re: Show HN: Game of Bins - Javascript Puzzle Game

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Post by quantumpotato_ » Thu, Sep 19, 2013, 1:28 PM UTC

Inspired by: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_(game)

Re: Show HN: Game of Bins - Javascript Puzzle Game

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Post by simpleglider » Thu, Sep 19, 2013, 1:28 PM UTC

hfsktr wrote: post #5

Not really gameplay but the tutorial was slow (paced). I understood most of it by reading the text but still had to wait for the animations and had no way of skipping them. Overall it was actually more difficult than it appeared on the face of it.

Thanks for the tip. I'll tinker with the animation speeds.

Yeah, you get the hang of it, but it's not easy when you start. Do you think it'd work to ignore fill at first and just have color and shape to match on?

Re: Show HN: Game of Bins - Javascript Puzzle Game

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Post by Malcx » Thu, Sep 19, 2013, 1:34 PM UTC

Not a comment on the gameplay, but the tutorial is far to slow and drawn out - experienced gamers could have this summarised in maybe 2 images with a line of text each. Maybe under a "quick help" link?

Re: Show HN: Game of Bins - Javascript Puzzle Game

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Post by cpfohl » Thu, Sep 19, 2013, 1:36 PM UTC

Solid vs. Light fill is hard for me to differentiate, especially the last practice "Find the Correct Bin"...could you use a pattern to fill instead? (Much more like Set)

Re: Show HN: Game of Bins - Javascript Puzzle Game

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Post by owenmarshall » Thu, Sep 19, 2013, 1:38 PM UTC

I don't like the fill colors. Right now you have three fills - full white, very translucent, and "slightly translucent". But I find it very difficult to judge whether a shape is very translucent or slightly translucent unless all the options are on the screen.

This made the tutorial especially jarring - when I saw a white fill blue, and a slightly translucent red, I ended up confused about yellow... was it the very translucent or slightly translucent?

I'd suggest changing one of the translucent colors to a full fill or some other representation, like stripes/polka dots.