Thanks for responding so quickly; it's rare to see a dev actively communicate with their players.
I was playing upgraded mindsweeper (and I was stupid enough to gamble a 2nd time), so yes, it was supposed to be very long. The major culprit was probably one of the other tabs (I did lower quality, but it probably doesn't affect mindsweeper all that much). More importantly, such draconian anti lag features should never have existed in the first place.
Thanks for the encouragement. It's less that my life was so great as this event drove me into an excessive irrational and unspeakable rage.
Unfortunately, Flash is pretty bad at handling lag. I understand anti-lag features shouldn't have existed in the first place, but since people open this game for very long durations, disabling some UI elements will significantly reduce the amount of memory consumed by this game. In the next update I will make it so that you will not be kicked out of Arcade due to lag unless you are on Ranked Mode, and do a few other things to help resolve the problem. As a general protip, yes other tabs cause a lot of lag and zooming out your browser once or twice will greatly help with the problem. Once again I'm sorry for the problem and thanks for your understanding.
WTF WITH THIS BS LAG RULE IN ARCADE! WASTED MORE THAN 15 MINS OF MY LIFE AND GOT NOTHING OUT OF IT. If there's a lag spike, then let it go; it's not that hard. At worst, pause the damn thing if lag somehow grants an advantage (I was playing unranked, so it doubly doesn't matter). WTF with booting people out in the middle? Icing on the cake? It doesn't refund my arcade points. F'ING RETARDED. I haven't been so pissed in weeks...
Ouch. If it takes you more than 15 minutes for one Arcade game, your computer is a pretty low-end one (likely made in the 20th century?). You might want to try closing all unnecessary programs, zooming out your browser, reducing graphic quality to low, and enable as many anti-lag options as possible? Though I understand your concern about Arcade Tokens not being refunded. I'll try looking into this in the next update. Thanks, and I'm sorry for the trouble! (I imagine you must have a super happy life if this is the worst thing that has happened to you in weeks - you should be glad about it)
bug: level 6 - some of the square things with a skull in them get stuck on the edge of screen; I think they're supposed to bounce? In this case, the top one is stuck, which makes the tape impossible to retrieve - ie the puzzle cannot be solved (I can't jump over him, and he blocks the only access).
Also, pushing w/d together can remove some of the colors from the palette until the next reset. It was never mentioned that you cannot choose a diagonal color. It would be more intuitive to make the set of colors fixed. However, a few puzzles depend on this aspect, so that probably won't work. More elaboration would make this aspect clearer. I figured out how it works, but I can't think of a good way to explain it clearly.
For those that can't load the game - find a computer that has the newest version of FF/chrome/etc (or install them, even if temporary). My home computer had FF3.6 and IE6, and it can't load the required HTML5 nonsense.
As for the game itself, the story is epic. It is the most emotionally engrossing thing I have encountered in a long while.
Is html5 _absolutely_ necessary? I'm using firefox 3.6.28
JIG labelled the game as "javascript/html5", so I thought it supported either or something...?
4/30 - Maybe my computer sucks, but all I get is "Loading sounds..." At the beginning, it asked if it can store data locally, to which I answered allow. However, that doesn't seem adequate...
I made 2 wizards, but they both spend most of their time doing their regular melee attack. It's unbearable for the 1st guy because he misses 3/4 of the time. The 2nd guy actually has poison, which whittles the monster's hp down even if he can't hit anything. However, he has level 14 fireball, which he never uses. lolwut Even if he doesn't have enough mana, I've never seen him use level 1 fireball either.
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Unfortunately, Flash is pretty bad at handling lag. I understand anti-lag features shouldn't have existed in the first place, but since people open this game for very long durations, disabling some UI elements will significantly reduce the amount of memory consumed by this game. In the next update I will make it so that you will not be kicked out of Arcade due to lag unless you are on Ranked Mode, and do a few other things to help resolve the problem. As a general protip, yes other tabs cause a lot of lag and zooming out your browser once or twice will greatly help with the problem. Once again I'm sorry for the problem and thanks for your understanding.