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by ralferoo 775 days ago
Reading this write up is funny, because I had no idea this is what was happening. There didn't seem to be an explanation of what was going on. I didn't know it was a shared experience, just that various random things seemed to be chaotically happening. I completed a couple of tiles and I guess submitted them as I thought that was how you got to "the next level", but gave them really stupid names like "test 1b" - mostly this is because I assumed it was single player and only I'd be seeing the name!

I also got bored after creating a couple of tiles. I scrolled around and saw very complicated things, but didn't realise they were submissions, just starting points for solving the level...

I guess I was the April Fool!

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I didn't even realize it was interactive. I just looked at it and thought "neat"
They should've started with an example that you can edit, OR just start with the final result and a call to action, e.g. by focusing it on an empty slot.
It's still open for submissions, by the way.
LOL. I'm much much worse. I played with it for like 2 minutes and had no idea what was going on and gave up. Maybe because I never used that machine game is was patterned after? :-)
Same. And it took me 10 minutes to realize I could scroll right on the tool selection area... I could only see like a wood bar, a sword and a couple of other things on my phone. With the other tools it's so much fun. My kids will love it.
maybe they'll do the write up next time before it goes live...