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Comment · 3 years ago
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Comment · 3 years ago
Asking WhyBot, "What is today's date?" caused a chain of thought provoking ideas about modern society's dependence on technology to tell the time. Cool!
Comment · 3 years ago
This is awesome, didn't realize there was a dart implementation drawing from grammar of graphics philosophy. ggplot2 (in R) has followed me around in a lot of use cases and such an intuitive way to create complex/customizable graphics. Looking forward to playing around with this.
Comment · 3 years ago
I finally got around to this. Here's a screenshot of how the new "pencil mode” looks in the latest version of the live app.

https://i.imgur.com/QrSqNwH.png

By tapping the same box twice, pencil mode is activated. You can enter any placeholders you like in the box.

Tapping the box again disables pencil mode, and the inputs you placed will remain in the background if you need to refer back.

Comment · 3 years ago
I really like the concept!
Comment · 3 years ago
I found the issue, led me to realize my scaling across all devices needed a rebuild. Should be fixed in the next release (submitting tonight). Really appreciate it! What features would you like to see for the iPad? More real estate on the screen lends itself to interesting options.
Comment · 3 years ago
Nice!
Comment · 3 years ago
Thanks for the tip, I'll take a look.
Comment · 3 years ago
Thanks, I will take a look. Really appreciate the suggestion.
Comment · 3 years ago
Gotcha and yes - when I started playing, a few apps asked for location permissions, and served ads up before I even started playing. The only ads that are served here are one at the bottom and one when a hint is requested.

Few items to add onto the list thanks to this thread, really appreciate it.

Comment · 3 years ago
That's helpful, thanks so much!

What type of hints are most useful from your POV? Are they more direct (i.e. here's a free box in case you are stuck), or more suggestive (e.g. "Pay attention to the naked pair in the third grid")?

With the latter, striking a nice balance between hints which are simple to articulate without esoteric terminology is important.

Really appreciate the pencil mode pointer, I'll check it out.

Comment · 3 years ago
Thanks! A couple people on here have mentioned they like their gameplay to come with 0 advertising so I will remove ads altogether as a feature. Would love to hear how the gameplay went and if you have any suggestions.
Comment · 3 years ago
Thanks! A pencil tool should be straightforward to add. Do people usually use a stylus for these purposes? Someone else mentioned the ads, I can easily embed some mechanism to remove them.

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