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Thanks for these notes. Really appreciate it. The app can handle 100s-1000s of players at the same time, so the intention is that in the future the pots will be much higher from all the users clicking at once. Rounds will be fast as the area the lightning pixel has to bounce around shrinks with all the dead pixels making it easier to catch. Still early days, thanks!
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Congrats on shipping this! I am envious because I have never shipped a multiplayer game, but it's something I'm working towards.
This is my second time trying the game. I tried for the first time the other day when I saw the post on SN. Unfortunately, I don't think it's for me. I'll drop some feedback in case it's helpful.
It's just not fun.
Games need win conditions and lose conditions. It's not obvious what those are in this game. I don't want to read documentation, I want to intuitively understand by exploration.
I tried exploring. I clicked a bunch, and eventually I got a hit on the shooting star. It bounced away, leaving me unsatisfied. I was hoping for an explosion or flash or some visual indicator that I did a good thing. The sats counter went up, so I guess that's a good thing and that's the point of the game. Ok, so how do I win? How do I lose? Seems like no way to do either? Maybe multiplayers are needed? Maybe payment is required? Eh, it sounds like gambling; not for me.
The dots I make on screen by clicking are so tiny, and it's frustrating to click so many times in the shooting star's path only for it to miss by a pixel or two.
I'm reminded of missile command. But unlike missile command, there are no pleasing explosions and no dopamine hit.
There's about 2 seconds of latency between when I click and when I see the game react by drawing a dot on screen. In a game that's supposed to be about quick reaction, this delay feels
badterrible.There's too much downtime where nothing is happening. The shooting star is off the screen and I'm just staring at my screen waiting for it to come back. This phase is disengaging me, my mind goes elsewhere during this downtime.
That's all I can think of, hope you don't mind the honest feedback.