Comment by 4ggr0
3 years ago
Yeah your game just scratches an itch I had for a long time. Mobile games are filled with ads and in-app purchases and I never found a simple game I could play and enjoy while waiting for public transport. Want to fully clear a seed now, haven't gotten that far yet ;)
Ahh, a single .html would probably work, too, sounds way easier!
I downloaded Termux, installed git and python3 and now your game is running locally on my phone with "python3 -m http.server --bind 127.0.0.1 9000" :)
Seeds are absolutely random and some of them can't be solved. I've had people complain about it but I consider it to be another aspect of the challenge of this game because there are cues you can notice that tell you if it's not possible to solve it.
Yeah, you went the extra mile spinning up a local server :)
If the trip you're taking is not a long one, you can just make sure to load the page while you still have reception. The game doesn't make any AJAX requests or load any resources after that and prevents the default 'pull-to-refresh' gesture so if you don't refresh the page accidentally, it'll stay available.
It's a difficult challenge I must say. Played about a dozen games now, furthest I've gotten is 4280 points. Have you ever cleared a full seed?
Yeah I looked at the files to see if you make any external requests. I guess I just found it entertaining that there's a web-game running locally on my phone :)
Wow, that's funny, that's my high score too. I guess there's a limited amount of possibilities, so it's probably not that unlikely. Seed was 5209605, if anyone wants to try it.
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Yeah, I've cleared it many times. Sometimes no matter how skilled you are luck is not on your side :)
Maybe the game could benefit from a mode that verifies if a seed is solvable but I haven't gotten past it being just an idea.
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> Mobile games are filled with ads and in-app purchases and I never found a simple game I could play and enjoy while waiting for public transport.
I bought Threes for $3 in 2014, and I still play it for hours each day -- on the subway, while waiting at restaurants, while watching TV, wherever.
A lot of people play 2048 because it's free, but it's not nearly as polished.
Tried Threes yesterday. Realy cute game but for some reason these kinds of games don't really hook me(Threes and 2048). But thanks for the suggestion!