Tiled Words 6 Month Update

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by paulhebert • 3 months ago

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paulhebert21• 3 months ago

Tiled Words turned 6 months old last week!

I wrote a little update about the first 6 months and what's coming next.

Thanks for all the feedback and suggestions!

timpark• 3 months ago

For an extra challenge, I try to solve it without looking at the clues, and only using the theme. (some themes are harder than others) Though if a word turns orange, I sort of glance at the clues to see whether it's the wrong direction or built incorrectly. Maybe they could be different colours, like red/orange? Thanks for making it!

NiloCK• 3 months ago

Another option here is an auto-rotate if assembled in the wrong orientation.

paulhebert21• 3 months ago

This is good feedback, thanks!

I want to add an official “clue-less” mode in the future as a more difficult setting.

I’ll add a note to distinguish “built wrong” from “wrong direction”

brk2• 3 months ago

I usually solve the across words with the clues and then try to do the down words without the clues.

It would be nice if the board were a little bigger to give you more room to try and organize the wordlets (not sure what to call the letter groups?) and try different arrangements.

napolux• 3 months ago

great game. i'm too stupid to play it, but i love it!

paulhebert21• 3 months ago

Haha thanks! That’s how I feel about a lot of word games.

I think Tiled Words gets easier after a couple of plays!

bengale2• 3 months ago

We have a little group chat going where we compete each day to be the fastest to complete these. We could do with some sort of time penalty for reveals or something because right now we just enforce that with pure shame!

Really enjoyable game.

paulhebert21• 3 months ago

Haha thanks!

Having reveals affect your score is interesting. I’ve been thinking about added a leaderboard which would make this more important (and shame less effective haha)

What do you think a fair penalty would be? 30 seconds per reveal?

bengale2• 3 months ago

I told my friend that in my mind I add five minutes every time she does it, but 30 seconds is probably more fair.

Perhaps not being able to use them for the first few minutes, but I guess it's not ideal to make it more annoying for people not playing by our shame rules!

zote• 3 months ago

Love this game wish i could commit to playing it everyday

paulhebert21• 3 months ago

Doing something every day is a big commitment! I didn’t want it to feel like a chore so you can always play past puzzles after the fact in the backlog

lbreakjai• 3 months ago

I discovered it the last time it was shared in here, and I must say it's one of the few I bookmarked _and_ actually come back to on a regular basis.

paulhebert21• 3 months ago

Thanks for coming back and playing!

abraxas3• 3 months ago

Thank you for this. Tiled Words is a morning ritual for me now. It's a brief part of my day when I sit down with a coffee and solve it just before starting my work. It's a part of my day I most look forward to. Thank you again.

EDIT: if there is a tip jar or a paid tier for the game, I'll be very happy to chip in!

linsomniac• 3 months ago

Ditto to all of the above.

paulhebert21• 3 months ago

Thanks! There is not yet but a few people have asked so maybe I should set one up!

Are there paid features you would be interested in? Would you want to buy a sticker or other merch?

abraxas3• 3 months ago

my biggest ask would be for custom colour themes? And maybe a one-time paid app to avoid any future ads (if you are thinking of going down that road). An app or a game with ads and no way to pay my way out of them is an instant uninstall.

Someone in another comment mentioned that they do a timed challenge with friends. This would require signup etc. Even though I sometimes do a race against my son I'd probably not sign up/register just to do this. But if it's purely optional then I think there is some merit there and people who are signup happy may take advantage.

I may also like to see perhaps a second (premium) daily challenge. Not unlimited mode because that would just make me gorge on it and get fed up. But two daily challenges instead of 1 might be something to ponder. Maybe even for a small pay? Just don't make it obnoxious with nags and popups etc.

coder97• 3 months ago

I got to know about this game because of this post and I have played 4 games already.

paulhebert21• 3 months ago

Awesome, enjoy!

oneeyedpigeon• 3 months ago

Really good fun. I accidentally completed a word at one point when I was trying to rotate a large section that wouldn't fit anywhere, but other than that, everything worked really smoothly. I thought the "right word, wrong construction" error was, possibly, too generous—I was expecting one of the twists to be that you needed to work that out yourself.

paulhebert21• 3 months ago

Thanks! I’d like to add various difficulty options in the future and this could be one of them!

riddley2• 3 months ago

I love the game. Thank you for making it. Please make doing older puzzles easier. Right now I have to open them in new tabs since your pagination is a moving target.

paulhebert21• 3 months ago

Great feedback, thanks. This definitely needs improvement!

I have a few ideas:

1. Change the pagination so the “…” is a drop-down that lets you pick a number

2. Let you filter out puzzles you’ve already completed

3. let you jump to the first puzzle you haven’t completed

Does one of those sound like a good solution!

riddley2• 3 months ago

I'd imagined a big "calendar" type layout that shows small links to every puzzle ever.

n00bskoolbus• 3 months ago

Yeah, the way I've been doing it is when I complete an old puzzle I hit back to get to my next "old" puzzle. Still have to keep a tab open so I don't have to click through the pages of puzzles I've completed though.

paulhebert21• 3 months ago

Good feedback. I’ll work on a fix soon!

paulhebert21• 3 months ago

Hey, there’s a new feature that should help here!

On the past puzzles page you can now hide all puzzles you’ve completed to filter down to only uncompleted puzzles.

c-hendricks• 3 months ago

Also here to say wonderful job with this. I never got into all these other daily word games, something about Tiled Words scratches the itch though!

paulhebert21• 3 months ago

Awesome, I’m glad you like it!

philposting• 3 months ago

An excellent game, with a great UI. Thank-you.

paulhebert21• 3 months ago

Thanks!

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