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by sumul 3mo ago
I enjoyed this and loved the minimal UI, good copywriting, and tasteful animations. My brain gets a little bit stuck on words that I can see but aren’t valid because of a missing connection, but I get that this is one of the main points of
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by sumul 8mo ago
This part really caught my attention (along with the rest of the preceding paragraph): > Our inability to see opportunities and fulfillment in life as it is, leads to the inevitable conclusion that life is never enough, and we would alwa
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by sumul 8mo ago
Thanks for sharing. I’m a musician and programmer, so I’m squarely in what I’d expect is your target audience. Since you’re posting an early version for feedback, here are some of my broadest initial thoughts. From your README’s philosophy
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by sumul 8mo ago
Great idea! I made a submission too. https://figure.game
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Creating New Chinese Characters(pages.ucsd.edu)
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by sumul 4y ago
Yes! I auditioned dozens of fonts for the UI of https://figure.game and chose Lexend for its legibility, even at small sizes. It’s also got lots of understated charm and character (no pun intended) in my opinion. After reading a
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by sumul 4y ago
Keyboard navigation is fixed now. Tab to move around and Enter to clear.
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by sumul 4y ago
I think this is a excellent question that I haven't been asked before. I don't have a great answer, as I don't consider myself to be particularly great at solving these puzzles. Some of my friends are consistently better (few
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by sumul 4y ago
It's different every day, usually between 8 and 11 moves. It depends on the minimum number of moves required to clear the tiles in the given arrangement.
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by sumul 4y ago
This is excellent, thanks for sharing. My solver is designed to find every possible solution so that I can evaluate the ratio of "best" solutions to all solutions. A lot of these optimizations are super interesting, but since I&#x
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by sumul 4y ago
Very cool, thanks for sharing. And thanks for pointing out the keyboard thing. I was about to reply with "but you can!" but when I went to confirm I realized that while you can navigate to each tile with the keyboard you can'
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by sumul 4y ago
I endorse getting away from as much news as possible. I made that choice after the 2016 US elections, and it has been a big, sustained improvement in my quality of life. I've found that if something is important, I'll hear about i
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by sumul 4y ago
That's really helpful, thank you. I'll see what I can do to optimize the animation performance more, and I'll take a closer look at the animation timing at lower frame rates. Definitely don't want to mislead or confuse!
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by sumul 4y ago
Thanks for reporting. That's a known bug that I'll try to fix soon. Firefox on Android is doing something weird with the Web Share API [1]. In a nutshell, the API has two methods. The first is `canShare`, which lets you ask the br
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by sumul 4y ago
I did look into it, although I'm not a lawyer. My understanding is that privacy notice compliance is a function of how personal information is being collected and used. I chose to collect no personal information whatsoever. I think of
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by sumul 4y ago
I'm glad you enjoyed figuring it out without instructions. Thanks for letting me know. I got some helpful feedback early on that resulted in the "Pick any tile from the bottom row" prompt. I grew up on Atari and NES and would
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by sumul 4y ago
Oh, just want to clarify that I've done tons of projects. I've been designing and building interactive products professionally for about 20 years. This was just my first time using Next.js, React, etc. I spent about a week reading
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by sumul 4y ago
Hey thanks!
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by sumul 4y ago
That's so helpful, thank you. I wonder if anyone would notice or care if I swapped the triangle for the square or diamond...
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by sumul 4y ago
Fair point. I mention the free tiers because I found it to be really low friction to start building without worrying about the pricing of every little service and platform (I did make sure the paid tiers weren't going to be a huge issu
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by sumul 4y ago
Thanks for letting me know, and sorry if that was frustrating. Your goal is to clear away all the tiles. Tiles that are linked together clear together. Links are made when same-color tiles are contiguously adjacent to each other. Blank spac
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by sumul 4y ago
Naming things to be unique and memorable is difficult, and finding a good domain is a big part of that when your product is a website. It wasn't my first choice to support the price gouging of .game, but after a lot of deliberation and
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by sumul 4y ago
Love this. Where can I learn more about your toy language?
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by sumul 4y ago
This is the way.
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by sumul 4y ago
Neat ideas, thank you for sharing. I'll think about it!
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by sumul 4y ago
Will watch, thanks so much.
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by sumul 4y ago
Noted, thanks!
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by sumul 4y ago
Interesting! I've been considering introducing new types of tiles that have unique behaviors in the future, and this could be one of those. I want to balance simplicity with fun, so plan A is to refine the puzzle generation strategy as
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by sumul 4y ago
Ah, gotcha. Thanks for clarifying.
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by sumul 4y ago
Awesome! I did tweet about it to my very small following about a month ago, and all the retweets and enthusiasm were a very encouraging signal to keep working on it. Open to any feedback since you've been at it for a while now.

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