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wasoxygen  ·  731 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: We made an app for A-Puzzle-A-Day

The app is great, very polished and fun to play, thanks mike! The calendar scorecard promotes the urge to solve them all – I hope the new year will not be a clean slate so I can continue trying to complete the full year.

Some suggestions to keep Sven busy:

• The rotation arrows appear bidirectional but always turn the same direction (top arrows rotate down, bottom arrows rotate up).

• There are only two rotations, how about showing only two one-way arrows on the top corners?

• Flipping the rectangle never helps, consider omitting arrows to flip the rectangle (or flip the U-shape on the long axis).

• If I quit and restart the iOS app, light/dark and vibration settings are lost.

• One time I had an apparent solution but it wasn’t counted. The L-shape was very slightly out of position, and moving it slightly locked it in and the solution was recognized. I haven’t been able to reproduce the problem, however. Snap into position works very well and gives satisfying feedback.

• Wordle took off by enabling users to share their solution without spoilers. Perhaps APAD could generate a scorecard with streak information and data about time/moves used to find solutions.

• I lost my streak because I forgot to play Monday. Perhaps an optional reminder would be a nice enhancement.





mike  ·  730 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks wasoxygen!

• Yes, we should change the arrows. I drag them in the direction I want, tapping them was a later addition because we found some people preferred that, but it can be confusing

• For consistency, I think we'll keep the flipping the rectangle option. I kind of like it!

• We're aware of vibration resetting. It will be fixed in an update going up today!

• We occasionally find an irreproducible error and it drives us insane!

• version 2 coming early next year will have social sharing that shows what frame you used without showing the solution ... it will be a little tricky to pull this off!

• version 2 will also have the ability to connect with friends and compete in weekly competitions, with a leaderboard and everything. Excited about this!

• we'll add notifications soon, too! Like, at 8 pm if you haven't solved for today it will send you a reminder.

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Sven just sent a new build, so updates will be happening today or tomorrow! They usually take a day or two to get approved. Updates include:

• the solution bank will show the puzzles with the custom set you solved with!

• time machine when active will show "Yesterday" with "tap to reset" under it, to make it more obvious that you've got time machine going.

• some font and text size fixes

• saving light/dark and vibration settings

mike  ·  729 days ago  ·  link  ·  

... and we're changing the arrows to unidirectional like you suggest! But keeping them at both the top and bottom. (And making them disappear after 3 seconds of not touching a piece). They can still be dragged, which is how I like to rotate them.