Show HN: Worderfall, my HTML5 typing game

http://worderfall.caseybanner.ca/

by kcbanner • 14 years ago

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nollidge2• 14 years ago

Not going to sign up without finding out what it is first, sorry.

kcbanner3• 14 years ago

It's a typing game where you type as many words as fast and as accurately as you can.

ninetax• 14 years ago

Then why require sign up?

nollidge2• 14 years ago

Gave it a shot. It's well-done, but there should really be an enticing reason for the visitor to sign up. If I get a link from someone and the first action I have to take is to sign up for something, 99% of the time I close it right away, unless they've personally given me some compelling reason to try it.

stewie2• 14 years ago

very nice game! smooth ui.

richardv• 14 years ago

No idea why you need a signup... You don't even ask for an email address. You should try and remove this requirement.

Anyway, after running through the game, I really like it. It's good fun. I'd probably say that the round was about 10 seconds longer than I wanted it to be though. UI is nice. It's pretty fast, so didn't notice any problems.

kellishaver• 14 years ago

Nice, very smooth and fun. If you're going to require signup, perhaps at least integrate some way to share/tweet scores and view the leader board without having to go through a round of gameplay first.

dylanpyle• 14 years ago

It's a shame it ended so early. Good-looking, fun and would have been great if it continued to get more challenging!

kcbanner3• 14 years ago

Thanks! Working on increasing difficulty. I'm thinking about a level system to increase difficulty for players who do well.

bburky2• 14 years ago

Fun. The sudden death feature is interesting. It forces you to both type as fast as you can while making absolutely no mistakes. That's actually probably a very good habit to enforce.

Small bug: if you switch to the "daily" tab, the bottom of the dialog is cut off. This also prevents you from clicking "Play again!" without switching back to another tab.

kcbanner3• 14 years ago

Thanks! I noticed that myself today. Will fix.

bburky2• 14 years ago

Also, I think you should consider both allowing the space bar and return to complete words. Pressing space between words is much more natural. Not typing spaces is fairly unnatural typing.

Alternately, later levels could be short phrases or sentences including spaces.

teeja• 14 years ago

I love words and NL programming. I hate adding another to "my" 10,000 registrations. Sorry pal.

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