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Hey thanks! The game is built on the AndEngine framework. The framework has an animation library that lets your move, rotate, scale sprites. However that by itself was not robust enough for us to build decent animations on. So I built a little xml framework on it that let my partner build animations, and storyboards from sets of these animations. Then I take those animations and apply them to the characters.
Off the top of my head, Color?
Yes, Dev Center is where you publish and manage your applications for WP/W8.
Although I have not submitted any apps to the WP store recently, my apps used to go through the certification process in about 3-4 days. Things might be different now though...
Could you please clarify on that issue? So it ignores the first letter and just skips to the second one? Thanks for playing the game!
Thanks! Please let us know if there is any way we can improve it.
Nvm it should be fixed now :)
Were you able to play on other browsers? We have been told that happens on some Android devices as well. We are looking into it right :/ Thanks for pointing it out!
A couple of weeks ago, my friends and I built a word game during a hackathon and got a great reception from people who played it. Previous HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3750068 My friends have cleaned up a lot of the UI and the code, and have published it under a new name. It uses now.js in the backend, and is all html5/js. Let me know what you think!
The game works well on mobile devices too. iPad has the best experience :)
yup, thats me!
Yup thats where I got the idea from. Wanted to see if we could build an HTML5 version in 24 hours :)
I just fixed a few more problems with how I was handling input which could have been the method for the rick roll. Will have to wait and see I guess.
Haha- I love hacker news :)
Thanks- its great to hear that you enjoyed it. I am trying to fix some of the xss and injection problems with the game right now. I plan on adding high scores and polishing this game up!
Was debugging during the hackathon and forgot to turn it off :)
Sorry for the problems- tried fixing some of them. Hope you enjoy it!
That was me taking down the server for a few seconds. I have done some more sanitization for now, but will likely do a much more thorough sanitization when I get the chance later.
Sorry for the xss- knew it was a problem but thought I would fix it later after I got some sleep. I have done some basic sanitization for now, and will likely make it much better later. I have also increased the time limit to 2 minutes.
yup- will likely do server side checks in the future, but this worked well for a hackathon. Thanks for pointing it out though!
Sorry I knew this was going to happen, but wanted to throw it up on here before I went to sleep. Now I have gotten such a huge response, that I am trying to fix it :)
Thanks for letting me know. I will check it out when I am not so sleep deprived!
I generate the letters based on the frequency of the letters in the English language. I just do this process many times, and then use the board with the most words. Its a very hacky brute force way :)
You can use the keyboard to type out the words. There are a few bugs with that but it might be much easier. The game figures out which letters you want to use as you keep typing. Just press enter when you are done typing out the word.
Built this in 24 hours with 3 other friends as a part of an on campus Yahoo hackathon. We just finished working on the game, so it likely has many bugs. The game is built with html5, and the backend uses now.js. This works on the computer, iPad, iPhone, and Android devices. I am very tired right now, so going to leave this running, and go sleep! Game inspired by Wordament on WP7.
Here is the mentioned Techcrunch article: http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/30/why-kik-loves-windows-phone...
Thanks- I made the graphics myself. I am not a graphic artist or anything, but can get around Photoshop/Illustrator enough to create graphics for a simple game.
There is a WP7 plugin/toolkit that comes for VS.
I have published several free games with ads for WP7. I am currently a student and making enough to cover my rent, and help me pay my tuition. My most popular game: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/apps/24139b6e-e8a6-4c87-80...
Does anything like this exist for Windows?
Yes, most people don't even know that Expression Blend exists. The first time I used it to customize my UI in Silverlight, I was blown away how quick and painless it was. To simply change the look of a button in Android, I had to spend far too long creating .9png files or w/e they are called.