More Questions, a Mini-Tutorial, and Bug Fixes

I initially raced against the clock to get a working form of this project done before it was due. Now that that time has passed and the assignment has been graded, however, I decided to go back and tweak some of the things I wasn't happy with.
First and foremost, I needed to add a mini-tutorial, just a little animation on the title screen which would show you how to start the game. I thought it would be intuitive enough, but I can't remember the amount of times I've personally sat blind on a title screen for upwards of 15 minutes without knowing how the hell I was meant to hit start. Using game mechanics in menus can be fun, but it is very dangerous, especially if your game is geared towards casual players (as this game is).
Secondly, I needed to tweak some broken questions. There were several where the question prompt itself didn't even fit on screen, and others where the answer was simply unfair or not very entertaining. I adjusted these questions to be more user-friendly (and visible).
After all this I went in to the question file and began thinking. I only added 16 questions today (bringing total up to 56 individual questions and 14 sets), although it won't be long before I settle in for the long haul and do my best to bring the total above 100. I want this game to eventually become something which people can actually routinely come back to for entertainment, not something where you memorize the entire game after playing through it once (the current state). That will take some time and many, many questions, though. In the future I would love to add a daily mode where the game automatically updates so that I can remotely write one set of questions which can be completed by everyone each day, much like a New York Times game, although that will also be in the distant future. For now, show this game to your friends if you can! I would love for this to become something real that people continue to play and not my umpteenth small side project which falls into oblivion.
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Status | Released |
Author | Icicle |
Genre | Puzzle |
Tags | chill, Mouse only, newspaper, new-york, phoentic, syllacrostic, times, worldle |
Languages | English |
Accessibility | High-contrast, One button |
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