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(eliasdorneles.com)

1 pointseliasdorneles1mo ago4 comments

This is a game where you get to practice listening skills.

If you're familiar with a drum machine, you'll get it quickly.

If you're not familiar, try it out, eventually it will click. After playing this game, you'll be halfway familiar with drum machines. =)

I am looking for feedback on how to improve the levels, notably on what could be improved for a smoother progression.

Good luck, have fun!

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vunderba1mo ago

Brutally Honest Feedback:

**** LOADING ISSUES ****

Went into the game shows "Click here to play the loop", click Play Loop. Does nothing.

Check Chrome console:

  Initialized level with amountOfSteps = 8
  Not Ready Yet

About 60 seconds later after numerous times clicking "Play Loop" it worked.

You need a spinner/progress bar or some visual indication that the game is still loading.

**** UI / UX ****

What the heck does +22 more mean at the top? 22 remaining levels?

**** SOUND ****

Click the Speaker Icon - no apparent error. Check console:

  Uncaught Error: Sample not found: undefined
  at AudioLibrary.getSample (audio.js:56:13)
  at AudioLibrary.playSampleAfter (audio.js:71:25)

Wait a few seconds - click them again. They work. You've got some serious preloading issues that need to be resolved.

**** POSITIVES ****

I like the switchable color themes, and the sounds seem pretty decent as well.

**** CONCLUSION ****

At this point I just got tired of being a beta tester. I don't care if people use LLMs to make things. I DO care if it results in basic testing being skipped.

eliasdornelesOP1mo ago

Thanks for trying it out and thank you for the honest feedback.

That's interesting, many friends of mine tested it and nobody reported an issue with loading. (Btw I wrote the audio loading code more than 10 years ago, it wasn't written by any LLM -- you're free to judge tho)

Yes, the +22 at the top means the remaining levels. I need to clarify that, you're the second person that seems confused by it.

Thank you again for the feedback.

vunderba1mo ago

Sure. Honestly I do think you have a game here that seems like it could be fun, so I got frustrated when it didn't work. :)

Hmmm. Well then honestly I'm not sure about the audio. Did you cross-test against a number of browsers? This happened to me on a Mac running Chromium.

Firefox/Chrome both have a Network Throttle. Maybe try setting it to something like 3G/4G (along with disabling the cache) and see if that helps to repro the issue?

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vunderba1mo ago

Brutally Honest Feedback:

**** LOADING ISSUES ****

Went into the game shows "Click here to play the loop", click Play Loop. Does nothing.

Check Chrome console:

  Initialized level with amountOfSteps = 8
  Not Ready Yet

About 60 seconds later after numerous times clicking "Play Loop" it worked.

You need a spinner/progress bar or some visual indication that the game is still loading.

**** UI / UX ****

What the heck does +22 more mean at the top? 22 remaining levels?

**** SOUND ****

Click the Speaker Icon - no apparent error. Check console:

  Uncaught Error: Sample not found: undefined
  at AudioLibrary.getSample (audio.js:56:13)
  at AudioLibrary.playSampleAfter (audio.js:71:25)

Wait a few seconds - click them again. They work. You've got some serious preloading issues that need to be resolved.

**** POSITIVES ****

I like the switchable color themes, and the sounds seem pretty decent as well.

**** CONCLUSION ****

At this point I just got tired of being a beta tester. I don't care if people use LLMs to make things. I DO care if it results in basic testing being skipped.

eliasdornelesOP1mo ago

Thanks for trying it out and thank you for the honest feedback.

Yes, the +22 at the top means the remaining levels. I need to clarify that, you're the second person that seems confused by it.

Thank you again for the feedback.

vunderba1mo ago

Sure. Honestly I do think you have a game here that seems like it could be fun, so I got frustrated when it didn't work. :)

Hmmm. Well then honestly I'm not sure about the audio. Did you cross-test against a number of browsers? This happened to me on a Mac running Chromium.

Firefox/Chrome both have a Network Throttle. Maybe try setting it to something like 3G/4G (along with disabling the cache) and see if that helps to repro the issue?

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