Decodex
Daily Cryptography Puzzle
I had some free time so I decided to prepare a PH launch. I took a few screenshots, wrote a description and it is live today. I hope some feedback on the game.
I decided to ditch the idea of requiring users to log in to track their streaks. I'll only require a login for playing campaign mode, but for daily users, I'll allow access without registration.
This, of course, means I need to rely on localStorage, so when users play from different devices, their progress won't be synchronized. We'll see.
I started to calculate the result for a game based on how many letters the player bought. Every day the user started with 2000 points, and revealing a letter costed 150 points. If the player successfully decoded the daily puzzle, their result was the remainder. This was confusing for users, because (based on the feedback) they thought they bring the leftovers over to the next day - this is not the case. Also, every time a user "bought" a letter, it was totally random.
I changed this approach, to pre-define the available help letters in a given order - so it is the same for everyone. This means the result of a puzzle is a yellow-green pattern, similar to wordle. I think it looks better in shared posts as well.
We'll see.
I found some pretty good daily games and wanted to make my own version.
Tried to create an engaging gameplay that users want to return to. I posted it on Reddit and got a surprisingly positive feedback along with some suggestions how to make it better.
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