Hmm, "You must build off of words you've played yourself (the dark tiles on the board) after your first turn."
So if I put my first word cleverly in one of the denser places of the board, I am basically screwed (well, only until I start a new game)? Just disappointing after I searched the board for quite a while to place my second word, only to get that message. Also, I have no idea where to find my first word (I know it will appear darker, but I have no idea where in the 2D space.
Hah. Yeah, I really wanted to fix that but we completely ran out of time at the end. This project was crazy ambitious for 48hrs, I'm just amazed we got anything to work at all! :-)
When you place words, the history shows up on the right. Once the judging is over, I'll make it so when you click on a word in the sidebar, it scrolls the board over to that word. Should help people like me who are always getting lost within the infinite scrabble space.
In the meantime, you can just click "Swap Tiles" a few times to end the game and start anew.
Yeah it's a good point. We thought about it a lot, and found that the games simply never ended if we let you go everywhere. But up to the last minute, it was still hotly debated.
I see. Well, I'm having a lot of fun with your app. Annexing other words by augmenting them almost makes it feel like a game of conquest. It would be fun if other people could steal "territory" from you by completing your words.
This is very cool! It's addictive to keep adding words.
If you start at the edge and build outwards, it seems pretty easy to go on indefinitely, continuing to add on points without even thinking of particularly high-scoring words. Maybe there should be a clearer goal? Get a high average score in addition to a high total? Get a high score using up all of the tiles in a normal scrabble set?
I think games shouldn't ever have to end. Once we get the leaderboard working again, it'll be a competition who can have the longest, largest, and most ridiculous never ending game of scrabble.
Ah, I see what you mean. I guess I was impressed that my game state was perfectly restored... current letter times, score, and ability to add to my prior words.
Very high on our list of post-competition features. Not just for the usability; we also think the game board would make an gigantic, amazing poster. ;)
Heh. That was from my misunderstanding of the rules of that, er, other tile-based word game. I'll fix it post-competition when we can deploy changes to the app. Thanks for playing!
So if I put my first word cleverly in one of the denser places of the board, I am basically screwed (well, only until I start a new game)? Just disappointing after I searched the board for quite a while to place my second word, only to get that message. Also, I have no idea where to find my first word (I know it will appear darker, but I have no idea where in the 2D space.