Software Enhancement, TCO Style.
Friday, June 5th, 2009
I happily wasted many an hour at http://www.logicgamesonline.com/netwalk/ over the last few years. I think this is because the game is very easy once you figure out the basic logic then you can play quickly and almost fall asleep. It is not very hard to see that the optimal moves are in nearly every game, but I had never gotten the best score in any of my games. This was (as far as I can tell) because I was playing on a Mac and even though I had a two button mouse, the right click just didn’t ever get to the game properly. Left and right clicks rotate in opposite directions. I tried different browsers, different settings, USB Overdrive, etc. Nothing worked.
I mention this to jdmetz (who is logicgamesonline) and he relates another “issue” (not a bug really but it is a feature if prevented). People frequently click too many times while rotating tiles, messing up their scores, even though they knew exactly what orientation they wanted. I do that all the time too. He has already thought up a solution that would work for the overclicking and as a side effect it would eliminate the Mac bias.
I run off into the war room to do some blogging and in an hour or so, the very next time I see jdmetz around the arena, he gives me a URL for the new enhanced version of the game so I can beta test it. And of course it works perfectly.
Now that is the way to get things done. A real life Mod Dash.
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