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Cool idea - I could see playing this daily. Some of it was a little frustrating, mostly the acronyms. Labeling them as such might help, because I was going mad
by fwip 1y ago
Cool idea - I could see playing this daily.
Some of it was a little frustrating, mostly the acronyms. Labeling them as such might help, because I was going mad trying to figure out "NNW" and "WWOOF.". Also, performance was not great on my older Android phone - the app would sometimes miss letters that I was sure I'd clicked.
- oneeyedpigeon 1y agoHow old's your Android? Performance was fine on my Pixel 3a.
- fwip 1y agoGood point - I should have specified. Looking it up now, the CPU my phone uses is the Helio P22 - a budget chip released in 2018. So performance might be fine on more reasonable phones. :)
- knuckleheads 1y agoI do want it to work for everyone though! It might be the emojis falling in the background. I also realized there's no way to turn that off. For a while, I had them piling up at the bottom of the screen which was very cool, but the physics engine would make my recent iPhone overheat. So, I'll make a note to add a setting to turn that off and that might take care of it.
- knuckleheads 1y agoNice, thank you. I have removed both NNW and WWOOF as well now. I have a flagging system, so people can request to have a word removed or added and they get removed/added on the spot. I like some of the acronyms, but I am in the middle of working my way through all 3 letter words in english (many thousands of them) trying to weed out the weirdos. And, damn, I haven't been able to test on older phones. I'll try and pick one up and see what I can do there. Thank you for playing!
- rixed 1y agoPerformance was also particularly bad with my oldish but otherwise very capable Android Galaxy Tab s6 (using Firefox), so much so that clicking the letters was unreliable. What tech stack did you use?
- knuckleheads 1y agoHuh interesting. It's using React for the most part, plus a physics engine for the falling engines. It might also be the css as well, there's a lot of gradients and transparencies in there. I'll make a note to include turning those off in (coming soon) performance mode. I might have it turn on automatically if it detects lag. Thank you for the report!