Refraction: 1. The stats seem to be sent to Kong before the number of Cards is updated. Might have been Kong was slow, but
Hard Badge appeared immediately after I replayed the first level. 2. If a level is started from the Trophy Room, don’t start the next level after completion. Takes 3 clicks to return to the Trophy Room. Just stay on the Tro…
Refraction: 1. The stats seem to be sent to Kong before the number of Cards is updated. Might have been Kong was slow, but
Hard Badge appeared immediately after I replayed the first level. 2. If a level is started from the Trophy Room, don’t start the next level after completion. Takes 3 clicks to return to the Trophy Room. Just stay on the Trophy Room screen. Could also automatically disable Auto-forwarding when a level is started from Trophy screen.
I am having trouble beating the last level of Refraction. I have tried every combination possible with no success. Please message me back with a solution.
Trying to play your game and finish it, but your last level is very different from what others have experienced and I cannot find a way to beat it. Tried to use a walkthrough but all those are different versions, if you could find out what is going on I appreciate it.
For some reason, once I reached level 2-3 or 4 (can’t quite remember) the game crashed, along with any other flash programs I had open at the time. There seemed to be no reason for this. Also, it did not appear to save my game, which was a bit of a bummer. But other than that, it was a good game :D
And it happened again D: This time, partway through 3-1. Trying to drag a divider, the same thing happened. The whole window froze, and about 10sec later, the browser came up with a window saying ‘Fla…
And it happened again D: This time, partway through 3-1. Trying to drag a divider, the same thing happened. The whole window froze, and about 10sec later, the browser came up with a window saying ‘Flash has crashed, would you like to stop it?’
Ok, did your data erase again? We know that there is an issue with Chrome, but it happens so sporadically that we’re having a hard time figuring out the pattern. Also Flash ITSELF seems to crash, not …
Ok, did your data erase again? We know that there is an issue with Chrome, but it happens so sporadically that we’re having a hard time figuring out the pattern. Also Flash ITSELF seems to crash, not just the game, so we don’t get any debugging messages when it happens. We appreciate your help and we’ll look into it.
I totally loved this game and am still replaying it because it’s still challenging. I think the trophies really add a lot to the game – though it would be better if you can see the trophy challenge for the level you are playing without having to go out of the level. I really like the music, too.
Currently the game forces uses to use what they have, and mostly there is
only 1 pattern to win the game which you have laid out.
A game that empowers the player to use the tools any combination is much more fun to play and win the game. It allows player to be creative in creating their solution.
From there, you can create medals (gold/silver/bronze), gold for using the least amount of reflectors/dividers.
while bronze is the opposite of gold.
And from there, you can modify the game condition, win the game by only using these 3 types of tools for gold.
Then the game can be further upgraded to have multiplier instead of division. x2 (1×2 = 2) , x3 (2×3=6) instead of 1/6.
Currently the game forces uses to use what they have, and mostly there is
only 1 pattern to win the game which you have laid out.
A game that empowers the player to use the tools any combination is much more fun to play and win the game. It allows player to be creative in creating their solution.
From there, you can create medals (gold/silver/bronze), gold for using the least amount of reflectors/dividers.
while bronze is the opposite of gold.
And from there, you can modify the game condition, win the game by only using these 3 types of tools for gold.
Then the game can be further upgraded to have multiplier instead of division. x2 (1×2 = 2) , x3 (2×3=6) instead of 1/6.
I really like the idea of adding medals for using fewer pieces, and adding multiple solutions.
Yes I think the basic idea can work for other math topics as well.
Also this project is just starting and we are going to add a lot more content to the game. We really want to transform math education with this game, and we need to make it teach all of fractions. There are actually a lot of fraction concepts that we do not really deal with yet, like subtraction, multiplication (of fractions), division (like 1/2 divided by 1/3 – this is actually really hard to describe), decimals, and percents. We really welcome your suggestions. I’ll let you know when we update the game.
Some additions that we are hoping to add soon (within a month or two): level editor, “editor levels” that require you to design a level with a particular equation, and automatic level generation that will probably not be as good as the hand-designed levels but will allow players to keep trying random challenges. I think we should add badges too.
Also, when a player begins a new game, don’t force user to have only 1 world to visit, give access to all the worlds for player to visit.
Currently the cards gain from each successful mission does not much but for decoration.
It would be good if they could help out in the game.
Another idea would be the animal lion allows you to redirect laser diagonally (x cross),
while getting a penguin allows you to shoot laser that bypass ice obstacles (penguin live in ice land right?)
This makes things much more interesting. This game have lots of potential :)
We’re making a card game that is going to use the cards that you earn from Refraction. Also the challenges for getting the cards are going to be better and harder, not just “…
We’re making a card game that is going to use the cards that you earn from Refraction. Also the challenges for getting the cards are going to be better and harder, not just “use 11 pieces in level 3-3” or something.
We actually tried a version a while ago where the animal helped out in the game. Unfortunately it ended up like clippie the annoying paperclip from Microsoft Word and we removed it. But we could put a picture of the animal next to the helper popups and tutorial messages.
Using diagonals is a good idea! Also I like the penguin idea.
The game took a lot of work! It was a combination of game designers, artists, and programmers. Also some of the people in the credits are our advisors (professors in the Computer Science and Education…
The game took a lot of work! It was a combination of game designers, artists, and programmers. Also some of the people in the credits are our advisors (professors in the Computer Science and Education departments) who did not help us program the game but helped us design it. There’s also some more content that we haven’t released yet. There IS a level editor for example, it’s just still a little buggy so we’ll release it next week sometime.
Rate this up if you find this useful Visit http://ayumilove.wordpress.com/2010/09/19/refraction-walkthrough/ for refraction walkthrough with all coins received from each stage mission
Hi, i just finished your game and it’s awesome! I hope you’ll do a sequel sooner or later!
I just want to leave some “complains” about the game…
- A “reset button” would be nice.
- The expanders need a little difference between them.
- The Trophy Room disappears too fast! Can you keep it until we can get the infos we need for obtaining the cards?…
Hi, i just finished your game and it’s awesome! I hope you’ll do a sequel sooner or later!
I just want to leave some “complains” about the game…
- A “reset button” would be nice.
- The expanders need a little difference between them.
- The Trophy Room disappears too fast! Can you keep it until we can get the infos we need for obtaining the cards?
Thank you for your attention =)
It would be very nice if you could add something to the extras-section of Refraction where you can use the cards you earn during the game. Was a little disappointed when I completely finished the game and there was no reward in the extras-section… :D But nevertheless, this is a very good game. It´s not surprising that you won a price with it.
We’re working on a card game that will be played with the cards you earn in Refraction. We’ll also add more meaningful challenges, not “use as many pieces as you can” for the cards. This is an ongoing…
We’re working on a card game that will be played with the cards you earn in Refraction. We’ll also add more meaningful challenges, not “use as many pieces as you can” for the cards. This is an ongoing project, so as we try to teach more and more of fractions we will add more content to the game. Thanks for playing!
Awesome game; amazing concept – feel that you could teach kids fractions with this… one thing puzzled me more than anything else… why award prized for using lots of pieces? Surely it is better to have pieces left over (but still get all coins and win)?
Thanks! Yeah we realize that the “use lots of pieces” is stupid =). It actually doesn’t even work, we discovered – you can just place pieces randomly on the grid and it counts them as “used”. Whoops. …
Thanks! Yeah we realize that the “use lots of pieces” is stupid =). It actually doesn’t even work, we discovered – you can just place pieces randomly on the grid and it counts them as “used”. Whoops. We’ll do an update sometime in the near future and make more meaningful challenges. Thanks for playing!
Great game. You may want to fix up one element—-one can still earn cards by placing the left-over pieces anywhere on the map (no interaction with the laser required). Other than that, great job.
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