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So it looks like earth is in the "C" slot. Why is it that when I type "C", a text field appears and starts filtering out elements by name? After seeing this ha

by xiaoma 9y ago

So it looks like earth is in the "C" slot. Why is it that when I type "C", a text field appears and starts filtering out elements by name? After seeing this happen, I tried typing out the whole word "earth" and hitting enter. Nothing. I tried typing "?" for help. Still nothing... "/" opens a find search box. By opening that and typing "fire", and then hitting escape, I've got fire hilighted. So I hit enter... nothing. I hit space... now the useless text field is there. Not a fan of this game's onboarding!

dabber 9y ago
Earth looks like it's in the "C" field because you have very few elements. The more elects you create starting with "C" the less it looks like that. Also it's possible the searching with "/" is part of your browser. I'm pretty sure Firefox does that, less sure about others.
- xiaoma 9y ago
  >Earth looks like it's in the "C" field because you have very few elements. The more elects you create starting with "C" the less it looks like that. There's no way for a fresh visitor to know that! The game should have some sort of basic instructions and at least consider the onboarding experience... and I say this as some who has created web games that fail on this front. Is any way to select things with the keyboard? I've got an somewhat injured wrist and can't be doing hundreds of repeated click and drag motions via the mouse or touchpad. (Yes, the slash behavior defaulting to search is part of FF, but it's also used to bring up keyboard shortcuts on Slack and many, many other sites) Update: I see how the game works now. If it hadn't been on the front page of HN, I definitely would have just gone through the steps in my comment above, clicked on a couple of icons and bounced. Hope the feedback helps (assuming the creator reads this and wants people not to bounce)

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So it looks like earth is in the "C" slot. Why is it that when I type "C", a text field appears and starts filtering out elements by name? After seeing this ha

by xiaoma 9y ago

dabber 9y ago
Earth looks like it's in the "C" field because you have very few elements. The more elects you create starting with "C" the less it looks like that. Also it's possible the searching with "/" is part of your browser. I'm pretty sure Firefox does that, less sure about others.
- xiaoma 9y ago
  >Earth looks like it's in the "C" field because you have very few elements. The more elects you create starting with "C" the less it looks like that. There's no way for a fresh visitor to know that! The game should have some sort of basic instructions and at least consider the onboarding experience... and I say this as some who has created web games that fail on this front. Is any way to select things with the keyboard? I've got an somewhat injured wrist and can't be doing hundreds of repeated click and drag motions via the mouse or touchpad. (Yes, the slash behavior defaulting to search is part of FF, but it's also used to bring up keyboard shortcuts on Slack and many, many other sites) Update: I see how the game works now. If it hadn't been on the front page of HN, I definitely would have just gone through the steps in my comment above, clicked on a couple of icons and bounced. Hope the feedback helps (assuming the creator reads this and wants people not to bounce)