Comment by Ilasky
3 years ago
Absolutely love things like this that encourage a little bit of discovery instead of instructions - makes it a bit more magical, I think
3 years ago
Absolutely love things like this that encourage a little bit of discovery instead of instructions - makes it a bit more magical, I think
Many years ago there was a viral web-based game involving...shooting frogs, perhaps?
The mechanics were not explained, you had to discover how to play it.
The problem: the primary mechanism was pointer clicks, but the Mac's tap to click didn't work.
So the game was in motion but nothing I did made any difference. I even wondered if perhaps the virality was a joke: the people who knew it didn't actually work were playing a trick on everyone else.
Anyway, I guess the moral of the story is that forcing the user to discover the mechanics works better when you control the full stack.
Or that those of us who cherish tap to click should occasionally press harder, just in case.