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(author here) Great feedback! Yes, I am the "Land of Lisp" guy Sorry about the potential epilepsy trigger- that was the fastest way I could think of to code a
by drcode 4y ago
(author here)
Great feedback! Yes, I am the "Land of Lisp" guy
Sorry about the potential epilepsy trigger- that was the fastest way I could think of to code a quick "reward effect", I will do something different in the next version. I didn't really expect anyone to care enough to solve the puzzle lol.
Now that I know people like the puzzle, I will build out the website and post regular puzzles, follow my Twitter @lisperati for updates.
- rendall 4y agoThat was fun. GG!
- jeppebemad 4y agoFun! Though I managed to break the game by placing all on the boat :)
- lake_vincent 4y agoDon't rock the boat, baby! Don't tip the boat over!
- hyperhopper 4y agoBreak? That's just a failure condition as per rules, working as intended
- aerovistae 4y agoJust needs a reset button then. Having to refresh the page is a bit silly.
- yoz 4y agoAgreed, along with a message of some kind explaining what's happened. My kid ended up with all the animals on the boat and unable to move any of them off, and didn't know why. This was before she understood all the rules of the puzzle.
- drcode 4y agoI am adding a reset button (but it only shows up once you reach a dead end, in order to avoid clutter)
- httpete 4y agoThere is a tiny bug, when you release and click fast you can drop anywhere.
- max_ 4y agoWhere you inspired by Alcuin numbers[0]? [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCVAGb1ee8A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCVAGb1ee8A
- thanatos519 4y agoThat was fun but I didn't see any reward effect at all.
- mikehotel 4y agoDid you get both rabbits to the carrot?
- CydeWeys 4y agoYes, I did. No reward condition. I am using a dark mode browser extension though.
- mimimi31 4y agoI didn't see one either until I turned off my dark mode browser extension. If you also use an extension that modifies stylesheets, you might want to try disabling it for this site.
- anu7df 4y agoThank you.. As fun as it was to solve the simple puzzle, nothing will replace the joy I felt when I showed it to my 8 year old daughter to see her solve it in 2 minutes flat with no instruction at all. Thank you for making it possible. I had to ask her to persist for a bit as she didn't exactly see what had to be done. She knew what had to be done once she accidentally swiped and saw to rabbit get dragged along. May be an animation showing what is possible will help here.
- hluska 4y agoI’m 45 years old and have been staring at it for a very long time without a clue. First off, you’ve raised a wonderful 8 year old and deserve congratulations. Second, is she available for lessons?? :)
- impoppy 4y ago
- adv0r 4y ago36 y/o, same here
- runnerup 4y ago34 year old, probably took me 8 minutes
- hombre_fatal 4y ago34yo and also around 8 minutes. Though, sheepishly, I wouldn't have even mustered the energy had I not seen that someone's kid solved it in two minutes.
- jasonm23 4y agoTook me about a minute, but I have the mental age of 10, so moving rabbits and a kangaroo (dog?) around makes sense. I just read the boxes/looked at the pictures and moved things around, until the solution was obvious. Just quickly moving things quickly. If I'd had to think about it without interaction... I'd probably never get it. I do a lot of graphical work, and have to make things fit / function and the only way to do that is hack it, and then clean it up so it looks planned.
- Shounak 4y agoAnother quick reward effect you could do to avoid flashing colors is to make the animals jump up and down, as if they’re happy to get their food
- soheil 4y agoI liked the insanely rapidly flashing colors.
- marcodiego 4y agoRapidly flashing colors may be dangerous for people with epilepsy.
- weaksauce 4y agoi don't have epilepsy but those colors going that fast were a bit much for me
- soheil 4y agoI wonder if it's better for people with epilepsy to have a simple and more robust solution by getting a monitor that has low refresh rate or limited colors than to try to police all the internet and applications from ever showing flashing colors.
- bnj 4y agoThey may and if I had epilepsy then I'd look to do the same, but that won't absolve us of the need to take care so that people without special equipment don't need to worry.
- seba_dos1 4y agoTurn your monitor's refresh rate so low that flashing lights won't actually be flashy and try to operate your mouse cursor. Good luck.
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- layer8 4y agoJust FYI, the page doesn’t work on iPad/iOS 14.x Safari, no animals to be seen, just the static graph.
- deltasquared 4y agoThanks for your wonderful books. You have been an inspiration.
- disantlor 4y agoI thought there was no solution because I thought the arrow pointing on the line from the flower meant you could only go that direction from the flower, but the solution relies on someone behind able to move backwards from the flower. Granted there is the blue feedback if you are on the flower, but it’s confusing when you are trying to plan ahead. edit: Fun puzzle though!
- Operyl 4y agoOh. I solved it by following the arrows, didn’t know I could go the other way.
- nuancebydefault 4y agoI followed the arrows too. Took me 15 mins or so to solve. I think the former comment meant that he thought that once you are on a node that is in front of an arrow, you have to follow that arrow, but that is not its meaning obviously.
- SamBam 4y agoFunnily enough I understood all the rules, but still was mentally blocked for a while because I just didn't even consider moving back from the flower as a possibility. I guess there was something about that arrow that was very enticing.
- zhenyakovalyov 4y agothank you!
- analog31 4y agoIt didn't work for me on my computer, but I grasped the concept well enough to see that it would be quite enjoyable. Since the purpose of the MVP is to get people interested, I call it a success.
- bozhark 4y agoI don’t have epilepsy, even though, that’s quite an intense flashing image.
- x-complexity 4y agoNice puzzle: Was able to complete it after some trial & error. Suggestions: - Mark uncrossable paths with (an 'X' in the middle of the line) OR (red) to make it clearer that the path cannot be currently crossed. - Mark paths with fulfilled conditions (as green OR with the 'X' removed) - Mark fulfilled conditions with (a tick symbol OR green) and unmet flags with (a cross ('X') OR red) to make the fulfillment state of conditions obvious. (edits because I can't use emojis in HN comments.)
- Zitrax 4y agoI would prefer if that was not "auto" marked in that way, it felt nicer to try to think about each crossing. Perhaps something that could be turned on and off.
- popcorncowboy 4y agoAll these suggestions are great and "make sense". And all of them would dramatically simplify the game and remove the challenge. The puzzle IS the trial and error. Perfect illustration of how hard game design is.
- oalaio 4y agoNo need to improve on any of the suggestions here, pal. Just continue your monthly 1st/15th releases. What is really valuable is the unparalleled creativity in it, not the senseless polishing to cater to the swarming audience.
- ghostly_s 4y agoThat multiple pieces can occupy any space is information you need to present to the player.