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Adding the time limit and actually making the clock go faster when a player is (purposefully) going off the rails is a sinister trick to ensure that players get
by phoe-krk 3y ago
Adding the time limit and actually making the clock go faster when a player is (purposefully) going off the rails is a sinister trick to ensure that players get the expected ending message. Clever that the programmer throught of these cases.
- codetiger 3y agoI didn't notice that. Good one!! Thanks for sharing.
- djvu97 3y agoI tried to go wrong way and i was not able to do. Thanks for telling us
- phoe-krk 3y ago"A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street." -- Doug Linder
- st_goliath 3y agoWell, I do always look both ways when crossing the one-way street where I live. But not because of programming experience, but because of late-night Taxi drivers who drive like Doc Brown (https://youtu.be/vHake6w4Su0?t=17 https://youtu.be/vHake6w4Su0?t=17) and believe that "reverse" is some kind of cheat code that flips the direction of the road. Also, cyclists.
- csixty4 3y ago"Three programmers come to a one-way street. The academic looks to the right, doesn't see any oncoming cars, and crosses. The corporate programmer looks to the left, then looks to the right, and then crosses. The distributed systems engineer looks to the left, then looks to the right, then looks up to make sure there aren't any planes falling out of the sky…"
- TeMPOraL 3y ago"... the hacker looks down to check for landmines and footguns, and then runs to catch up with the rest, grumbling something about computer scientists and off-by-one errors."
- yccs27 3y agoThe distributed systems engineer definitely uses a mirror to watch both directions at the same time while crossing the street. They've been caught by Time of Check - Time of Use errors before.
- troymc 3y agoIn tourist-filled parts of the world where they drive on the left side of the road (e.g. UK, Australia, Japan), you sometimes see signs reminding the tourists to look right before crossing the road.
- KineticLensman 3y agoLondon in particular has the signs ("Look left", "Look right") written in words on the road surface itself at obvious crossing points, especially near stations etc. So pedestrians look down at them as they go to cross the road.
- seabass-labrax 3y agoOne should really look both ways before stepping out onto the road though =)
- twic 3y agoAlthough there's just about time to make the middle of the message "fox".
- prostanac 3y agoOn the middle one they only check if you go backwards from the position of the key (I got it to work clockwise). If you continue on the intended path and then go back the clock won't go faster. You have to be fast though.
- codeflo 3y agoHmmm. I tried about a dozen times before giving up. I thought the game was broken before reading your comment. Nothing in the game visually indicates that going back is worse than going forwards. As the level is symmetrical, the distance is literally the same. A one-way door, or crumbling floor, would have been easy solutions I think.
- croisillon 3y agowell you gain speed just picking the key underway instead of stopping and going backward
- koromak 3y agoTheres momentum, turning around is much slower than moving forward like most games
- ackfoobar 3y agoBut that's not what this game is doing though. I fumbled and reversed direction picking up the key and still got to the door in time.
- Wowfunhappy 3y agoIMO, the game design mistake here was having too little momentum. There should be an excessive amount of momentum, so the player immediately understands that the levels will be impossible if they turn around.
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- mtmickush 3y agoThere's just barely enough time on the middle and last levels to double back even with the faster clock movement for going the wrong direction. Fun little challenge
- bravetraveler 3y agoI don't know enough about web stuff, but I wonder how much this depends on the system I got past the second one, and oddly was able to 'sit still' in the middle while rearranging my fingers for a remarkably 'long' time (couple seconds or so, hard to guage) For anyone smarter than me: I'm on Linux with Wayland and a 144Hz display, output should be synchronized if this plays a part
- the__alchemist 3y agoI now have Braid theme music stuck in my head.
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