Show HN: Wordminos – Crosswords Meet Dominos

(wordminos.com)

18 points | by dyarosla 11 hours ago

4 comments

  • blobdole 2 hours ago
    Wowza... I am so bad at this. lol

    One thing I would say is that when there is a "done" or a "next" button, it took me a sec to see it as a button because the actual button color was too close to white on my monitor. So I thought it was a click anywhere kinda "done".

    • dyarosla 2 hours ago
      Thanks for the feedback! Maybe I should add another touch animation like the one that teaches you about the levels menu chevron. Or just add some light glows every so often
  • dyarosla 9 hours ago
    I also compiled the full timeline of development, which you can browse here: https://wordminos.com/making-of/timeline.html
  • roldie 4 hours ago
    Great work, was fun to play!
    • dyarosla 4 hours ago
      Thanks! It took a lot of tuning!
  • Bekamakhara 6 hours ago
    which bit of polish changed how people reacted the most?
    • dyarosla 4 hours ago
      I think it's still to be seen in the long run but so far two main ones come to mind

      - Adding a mascot(s) helped immensely for creating an identity / making it not another puzzler

      - Tuning the puzzle generation constraints: how frequent 2-,3-,4-,5- size pieces are, how many shared colors, how colored markers are laid out relative to one another in the board, all helped tune the puzzles from not being outlandishly difficult or mundanely boring.