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papaolivia92 commented on Show HN: Feudle – A daily puzzle game built with AI   feudlegame.com... · Posted by u/papaolivia92
ks2048 · 5 months ago
I'm wondering how many of the choices were the AI's and how many were yours - like why is it an "unusual" text box - no cursor, on-screen keyboard, etc.

Also, "not being a developer" means you don't normally do software development or you have no idea what you're looking at if shown source code?

papaolivia92 · 5 months ago
I had taken a basic coding course over 10 years ago, so I understand the basic structure of a function for example. I've never coded anything before, so this was truly my first foray..

Through this project, I'm getting better at filtering for AI's less intuitive suggestions; at the start, I naturally accepted most recommendations at face value.

papaolivia92 commented on Show HN: Feudle – A daily puzzle game built with AI   feudlegame.com... · Posted by u/papaolivia92
InsideOutSanta · 5 months ago
FYI, I can't install this on a Pixel 9 Pro Fold.
papaolivia92 · 5 months ago
You couldn't get Feudle to work, or the above game?
papaolivia92 commented on Show HN: Feudle – A daily puzzle game built with AI   feudlegame.com... · Posted by u/papaolivia92
roskelld · 5 months ago
I did the same thing, based on the notion that pizza was fine, I didn't think I needed to go more specific. It was odd to see chicken get replaced by my guess of meat, but I didn't think to try more specific meats after that guess.
papaolivia92 · 5 months ago
very helpful - you're right in that chicken / ham are the same level of specificity so having meat as the right answer (and having chicken, ham, etc. count as correct) would make more sense here.
papaolivia92 commented on Show HN: Feudle – A daily puzzle game built with AI   feudlegame.com... · Posted by u/papaolivia92
hatthew · 5 months ago
Would it be possible to list incorrect guesses? In case I make a typo, or I forget a previous guess.
papaolivia92 · 5 months ago
Technically it's available in the menu; if you click "My Guesses". I was debating showing them on the main scree as you're playing - would you prefer that?
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prawn · 5 months ago
OP, I quit because of the pop-ups. Why would I sign up before I've even had a chance to try the game? Invite people to get notified after they've completed a game.
papaolivia92 · 5 months ago
+1! Great feedback - sounds like I have some work to do on the pop-up timing, etc.
papaolivia92 commented on Show HN: Feudle – A daily puzzle game built with AI   feudlegame.com... · Posted by u/papaolivia92
jdprgm · 5 months ago
hah that's not too bad. mine matched poptart to pizza.
papaolivia92 · 5 months ago
hahaha that's hilarious (... fixing this)
papaolivia92 commented on Show HN: Feudle – A daily puzzle game built with AI   feudlegame.com... · Posted by u/papaolivia92
skwee357 · 5 months ago
Cool game. Concept is not new, but good execution.

Here is some feedback:

1. Remove the annoying popup 2. Use native elements for input, I don't know what is it in your code, but this is not native, because when I type, Vimium plugin intercepts my input rather than the input box.

papaolivia92 · 5 months ago
thanks! hmm I used a native element for input but disabled it so I could use the on-screen keyboard. might be time to revisit!
papaolivia92 commented on Show HN: Feudle – A daily puzzle game built with AI   feudlegame.com... · Posted by u/papaolivia92
nimih · 5 months ago
1. I spent around 5-8 minutes on the site and got multiple (4 or 5) modal “subscribe to my newsletter” popups, some within seconds of each other. This is extraordinarily obnoxious and is enough for me to never want to visit your website again, regardless of its other merits.

2. I’m on mobile, and while the keyboard interface looks nice, it performs much worse than my phone’s native keyboard. There are multiple reasons for this: it’s laggy and routinely drops inputs; it doesn’t allow for alternative input schemes like swiping (I’m not an accessibility expert but I imagine it’s a disaster for anyone with serious accessibility needs), and it “feels” less accurate than the phone’s native keyboard input. Plus, its behavior and letter positioning is just very jarring compared to how I expect my phone keyboard to behave, which adds to how annoying it is to use.

3. Today’s prompt seemed fine, but the surveyed prompts for “next time” all seem rather low quality. I’m not sure how you’re generating these, but you should probably spend a bit more time doing QA, especially while you’re trying to build a user base; speaking personally, seeing that “Besides white christmas, name a song on big crosby’s white christmas album”[sic] is a potential future prompt really does not inspire confidence and makes me rather uninterested in ever coming back.

papaolivia92 · 5 months ago
good feedback!
papaolivia92 commented on Show HN: Feudle – A daily puzzle game built with AI   feudlegame.com... · Posted by u/papaolivia92
oliwary · 5 months ago
Nicely done! :) I think this works well as a daily game, smart to get players to fill in the survey. Quite hard though! I only got one right for today.
papaolivia92 · 5 months ago
thank you! ah some questions are harder than others - this one was tricky!
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pullflow · 5 months ago
this is fun! I enjoyed playing
papaolivia92 · 5 months ago
thank you! it was fun to build (and I enjoy playing it too!)

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