
If you have 2 minutes, could you test this simple game I worked on?
Fidelity Elf Game

( , Wed 7 Dec 2022, 9:59, Reply)

Nice, think I'd replay it more if it were to scroll down as well. Or have something like a rising water level in there which isn't rigidly attached to the bottom of the screen, currently it's quite unforgiving if the wrong combination of hazards and platforms come along since you can't go back to wait/get around it. Speaking as a non video game designer.
( , Wed 7 Dec 2022, 10:14, Reply)

Yeah, the client had strict instructions on what they wanted, but cheers for the feedback
( , Wed 7 Dec 2022, 10:40, Reply)

Elf on a Shelf meets
www.doodlejump.org/ without all the phone tilting shenanigans
( , Wed 7 Dec 2022, 11:34, Reply)

I like it.
The one bit I found slightly unintuitive was the need to hold down the mouse button to move. Everything else was quick and easy to understand.
Also, it is usually worth adding the meta data for things like Twitter cards and Facebook graph, which you don't seem to have. Just having a Facebook button seems to be missing some potential traffic in sharing from places like Twitter. People are lazy. They like a pre-populated bit of text that tells people their score.
( , Wed 7 Dec 2022, 11:48, Reply)

I just give them what I'm asked/paid for. It's for a targeted audience, was just sharing it the B3ta family!
( , Wed 7 Dec 2022, 12:32, Reply)

say all the people who can barely remember it and its many terrible features. See also: the 1980s
( , Wed 7 Dec 2022, 15:44, Reply)

But then I had a 3210 and that felt far more solidly built by comparison.
( , Wed 7 Dec 2022, 18:41, Reply)

The 3310 was the one the cover kept falling off. I have no idea how it got a reputation for build quality.
( , Wed 7 Dec 2022, 18:45, Reply)

it was the battery, software and non existent memory that I had an issue with
( , Wed 7 Dec 2022, 19:35, Reply)

Want a record of what you said? Simply write your message, save it as a draft, go to your drafts folder and find and send the message which will then give it a nice little envelope icon. Oh yeah, your phone holds only about a dozen text messages, so you'd better delete some of those drafts if you want your inbox updated.
( , Wed 7 Dec 2022, 19:46, Reply)

I bought one online, installed it (back when opening up mobile 'phones was trivial), built a DIY data cable utilising a pencil eraser and stripboard pins for the proprietary connector and unlocked the hidden menu option...
( , Wed 7 Dec 2022, 20:55, Reply)

Even if you did have to wedge a bit of paper in it to stop the battery pack falling off
( , Wed 7 Dec 2022, 20:33, Reply)

the last mobile 'phone I had any positive feelings towards...
( , Wed 7 Dec 2022, 21:01, Reply)

Solid, dependable and they never seemed to develop faults. Unlike the 7210, or anything with Motorola printed on it.
Then there was the Ericsson T68, which in rare cases had a bug where it would stop picking up a signal; the solution was (not kidding) to drop it head first onto a table from about four inches up.
At one point I had a lovely T39 in cream. I wish I’d never sold it.
( , Wed 7 Dec 2022, 21:11, Reply)

The original battery still outlasts my daily driver...
( , Thu 8 Dec 2022, 19:09, Reply)

Twice now landed on a shelf, and he didn't jump again. Once was with the shelf right at the bottom of the screen, second time just edged onto a shelf at the very top of the jump.
The candles on top of the shelves are easily confused with collectables.
It'd be nice to be able to start a new game by pressing SPACE or something when playing with cursor keys, as having to use the mouse to re-start then jumping back on the keys is a nuisance.
( , Fri 9 Dec 2022, 16:14, Reply)