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eeenmachine
Feb 2, 2004

BUY MORE CRABS

glam rock hamhock posted:

Okay, now the computer just refuses to take a turn on any game I start

WHICH ONE OF YOU BROKE THE SERVER???? SHOW YOURSELF!

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Doctor Zero
Sep 21, 2002

Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

Same. Something broken on the back end?

tonytheshoes
Nov 19, 2002

They're still shitty...
Started working--fun game, though perhaps there should be some sort of power-up type of thing that you gain for playing longer words...

marshmonkey
Dec 5, 2003

I was sick of looking
at your stupid avatar
so
have a cool cat instead.

:v:
Switchblade Switcharoo
Yea, should be working again now.

rotaryfun
Jun 30, 2008

you can be my wingman anytime

Aredna posted:

DarkHorse posted:

marshmonkey" posted:

:argh: Captain Cool
:argh:
:argh:

:argh:

Doctor Zero
Sep 21, 2002

Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

Putting a special character in your name makes every game crash.

I mean an emoji or other non-ascii character.

You can do everything else but the app will crash when a game starts.

empiremonkey posted:

Thanks, managed to fix this on the server so go crazy with your emoji.

Doesn’t crash anymore and I tested a lot of characters emoji and hiragana.

However emoji show up as ????? On the scoreboard

Doctor Zero fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Apr 6, 2018

DarkHorse
Dec 13, 2006

Vroom Vroom, BEEP BEEP!
Nap Ghost
Game crashing for me from notification screen and from lock screen. One time the game list only showed the game I was trying to load, not any of the other concurrent games.

Also I was just hoist by my BEASTIAL petard

(It’s “bestial”?!? That’s dumb)

marshmonkey
Dec 5, 2003

I was sick of looking
at your stupid avatar
so
have a cool cat instead.

:v:
Switchblade Switcharoo

DarkHorse posted:

Game crashing for me from notification screen and from lock screen. One time the game list only showed the game I was trying to load, not any of the other concurrent games.

Also I was just hoist by my BEASTIAL petard

(It’s “bestial”?!? That’s dumb)

Yea, we are doing a lot of hacking today to try and figure out these crashes.

The Pell
Feb 6, 2008
Do you want crash reports?

marshmonkey
Dec 5, 2003

I was sick of looking
at your stupid avatar
so
have a cool cat instead.

:v:
Switchblade Switcharoo

The Pell posted:

Do you want crash reports?

sure, that would be great! ian@nimblebit.com if you please.

delfin
Dec 5, 2003

SNATTER'S ALIVE?!?!
Booped is so too a word. It is a form of 'boop', which is what one does when presented with a cat or dog nose.

The Pell
Feb 6, 2008
Weird... I've had a couple crashes yet I only have a .sessions entry in analytics.

Edit: This shouldn't be possible:

The Pell fucked around with this message at 19:35 on Apr 6, 2018

marshmonkey
Dec 5, 2003

I was sick of looking
at your stupid avatar
so
have a cool cat instead.

:v:
Switchblade Switcharoo

The Pell posted:

Weird... I've had a couple crashes yet I only have a .sessions entry in analytics.

Edit: This shouldn't be possible:



No, that's fine. It would just be wrong if there was a letter tile there instead of a hole.

*edit* assuming you mean having a floating tile there

The Pell
Feb 6, 2008

marshmonkey posted:

No, that's fine. It would just be wrong if there was a letter tile there instead of a hole.

The hole is fine. But there arent any words that could be made there. There isnt a single vowel.

marshmonkey
Dec 5, 2003

I was sick of looking
at your stupid avatar
so
have a cool cat instead.

:v:
Switchblade Switcharoo

The Pell posted:

The hole is fine. But there arent any words that could be made there. There isnt a single vowel.

ah, yea we are supposed to check and make sure there is at least one vowel... maybe we aren't. I believe MM will work.

DarkHorse
Dec 13, 2006

Vroom Vroom, BEEP BEEP!
Nap Ghost
I am a gigantic moron and I’m actually on iOS 11.2.6; my work phone was updated to 11.3

So far the game seems fine when loading fresh

Captain Cool
Oct 23, 2004

This is a song about messin' with people who've been messin' with you
Hi

marshmonkey posted:

ah, yea we are supposed to check and make sure there is at least one vowel... maybe we aren't. I believe MM will work.
I had a round where the only vowel was Y. Is that intentional? I think there was only one possible word on the board.

marshmonkey
Dec 5, 2003

I was sick of looking
at your stupid avatar
so
have a cool cat instead.

:v:
Switchblade Switcharoo

Captain Cool posted:

Hi

I had a round where the only vowel was Y. Is that intentional? I think there was only one possible word on the board.

I think the check we do is that there has to be 1 playable word from the 1,000 most used words list. So it's possibly there was one with only a Y?

Captain Cool
Oct 23, 2004

This is a song about messin' with people who've been messin' with you

marshmonkey posted:

I think the check we do is that there has to be 1 playable word from the 1,000 most used words list. So it's possibly there was one with only a Y?
Yeah there might have been some two-letter words I ignored. That sounds like a decent check.

marshmonkey
Dec 5, 2003

I was sick of looking
at your stupid avatar
so
have a cool cat instead.

:v:
Switchblade Switcharoo

Captain Cool posted:

Yeah there might have been some two-letter words I ignored. That sounds like a decent check.

Just wondering, did you play our other game Capitals? You really picked up the strategic aspect quickly.

Yngwie Mangosteen
Aug 23, 2007
Only a couple crashes, but I was doing a lot of app switching at the time so I blame that. The only real thing I've noticed so far is that sometimes I'll be typing a word and then suddenly it'll clear itself out, leading to me only having the last part of the word in there. If I'm trying to type fast and it happens, I might send that half word. I don't know what causes it, but it might be fatfingers. On an Android s8 phone.


edit: Just won a game with 'ox'. Sorry bunky!

empiremonkey
Nov 13, 2005

"You have reach the max number of planes."

Doctor Zero posted:

Putting a special character in your name makes every game crash.

I mean an emoji or other non-ascii character.

You can do everything else but the app will crash when a game starts.

Thanks, managed to fix this on the server so go crazy with your emoji.

Captain Cool
Oct 23, 2004

This is a song about messin' with people who've been messin' with you

marshmonkey posted:

Just wondering, did you play our other game Capitals? You really picked up the strategic aspect quickly.
Yes, I played a ton of Capitals when it came out.

Yngwie Mangosteen
Aug 23, 2007
Is there no way to disable sounds? My options button is greyed out.

foutre
Sep 4, 2011

:toot: RIP ZEEZ :toot:
The AI has been playing proper nouns occasionally, most recently 'MORGAN'. E; and 'RILEY'

Cool game though!

foutre fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Apr 6, 2018

Doctor Zero
Sep 21, 2002

Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

empiremonkey posted:

Thanks, managed to fix this on the server so go crazy with your emoji.

Fixed! I tested lot of different characters


But emoji show up as ????? On the scoreboard

marshmonkey
Dec 5, 2003

I was sick of looking
at your stupid avatar
so
have a cool cat instead.

:v:
Switchblade Switcharoo

foutre posted:

The AI has been playing proper nouns occasionally, most recently 'MORGAN'.

Cool game though!

Usually it's because the word also means something else. Apparently a MORGAN is "a unit of distance between genes."

monkeytennis
Apr 26, 2007


Toilet Rascal
I’m 10MF. Which is strangely close to my Tiny Tower code of 10LF.

Interested so far but could do with a tutorial for the stupid. Like me.

raditts
Feb 21, 2001

The Kwanzaa Bot is here to protect me.


It's kinda bullshit that the Knight battle generates like one vowel for the players turn, but the CPU just happens to get sufficient letters to spell like a seven letter word every time and conveniently has sufficient letters to spell a word to completely cover its castle no matter how much I expose it.

Other than that it's a pretty cool concept. Haven't run into any crashes yet on Android, pixel XL.

bunky
Aug 29, 2004

Captain Monkey posted:

edit: Just won a game with 'ox'. Sorry bunky!

Ha, no worries. I was still working out the mechanics of the game.

My friend code is 10MB if anyone wants to trounce me as well.

It seems to work great on my Note 8 running 8.0.0. No crashes so far.

Doctor Zero
Sep 21, 2002

Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

Emoji appear to be completely working! 👍🐓🐓

neongrey
Feb 28, 2007

Plaguing your posts with incidental music.
Rofl and of course my first #sa game the most obvious word I see is GOONS.

DarkHorse
Dec 13, 2006

Vroom Vroom, BEEP BEEP!
Nap Ghost

raditts posted:

It's kinda bullshit that the Knight battle generates like one vowel for the players turn, but the CPU just happens to get sufficient letters to spell like a seven letter word every time and conveniently has sufficient letters to spell a word to completely cover its castle no matter how much I expose it.

Other than that it's a pretty cool concept. Haven't run into any crashes yet on Android, pixel XL.

Yeah, I had the same experience with the knight. Meanwhile I get only a few vowels each time.

Yngwie Mangosteen
Aug 23, 2007
Is 'asian' not supposed to be a word? It didn't work for me.

raditts
Feb 21, 2001

The Kwanzaa Bot is here to protect me.


Captain Monkey posted:

Is 'asian' not supposed to be a word? It didn't work for me.

"Mexican" didn't work for me either

Lutha Mahtin
Oct 10, 2010

Your brokebrain sin is absolved...go and shitpost no more!

eeenmachine posted:

If it is just the usual Scrabble rules do we need to state that you think?

even if you explain that, you still have a game mechanic where you are eating the player's IAP resource when they misspell a word or misremember which words are valid in Scrabble. like i don't understand how you guys didn't scrap this design after spending five minutes to consider how it would work in practice. i've wasted jokerbux or whatever they are several times because i tapped the tiles in the wrong order and transposed letters in the word i was trying to make

SupSuper
Apr 8, 2009

At the Heart of the city is an Alien horror, so vile and so powerful that not even death can claim it.
Testing this on my Galaxy S7 running Android 7.0. No crashes so far, just a lot of "stalls" on singleplayer games after I play a word, example:

Usually going to the Home screen and back fixes it.

Also some UI bugs:

Continue button is cut off.

King bet takes up two lines.

eeenmachine
Feb 2, 2004

BUY MORE CRABS

Lutha Mahtin posted:

even if you explain that, you still have a game mechanic where you are eating the player's IAP resource when they misspell a word or misremember which words are valid in Scrabble. like i don't understand how you guys didn't scrap this design after spending five minutes to consider how it would work in practice. i've wasted jokerbux or whatever they are several times because i tapped the tiles in the wrong order and transposed letters in the word i was trying to make

We actually got the idea from playing a Scrabble clone called Wordox. We didn't like it at first either but the idea grew on us the more we played.

Multiplayer word games are particularly hard to profitable unless you cram them full of ads or add a bunch of crazy powerups to the game.

Lutha Mahtin
Oct 10, 2010

Your brokebrain sin is absolved...go and shitpost no more!

the reason i brought it up is because my job is working with people who have disabilities. i think it's super unethical to have the money making system in a game directly discriminate against people who were born with a disability. a person with dyslexia or with motor control difficulties, for example, who buys IAP in this game will lose money that they spent through no fault of their own, and that's really hosed up

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SupSuper
Apr 8, 2009

At the Heart of the city is an Alien horror, so vile and so powerful that not even death can claim it.
Uh oh someone didn't limit their text inputs



Oh noooooooooooooooooooooooo



Help I can't join groups now :(

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