Comment by 🕹️ skyjake

=> Re: "Farkle" | In: u/gritty

@gritty Feels much nicer on mobile now, thanks!

=> 🕹️ skyjake [sysop]

2024-04-11 · 9 months ago

8 Later Comments ↓

=> 🐐 drh3xx · 2024-04-12 at 11:43:

Can't say I've done especially well so far but it's been fun. Thanks for putting this "out there".

=> 🍀 gritty [OP] · 2024-04-12 at 16:13:

@drh3xx glad you like it. I have couple fixes left, but I'm hoping to have it feature complete soon and just let it run.

=> 🍀 gritty [OP] · 2024-04-13 at 02:23:

Fixed a few bugs

• "straight" and "quad + double" now score correctly

• refreshing the page on the next day should now reroute to authorization page instead of throwing error

• hopefully dates with timezone offset corrected for gamelog. I'll see tomorrow.

• game shows "Filled!" upon fill instead of blank screen

• strips out repeated input selection numbers (111 is just 1)

=> 🕹️ skyjake [...] · 2024-04-13 at 16:57:

A thought: since the game has a strong element of randomness, which can influence one's position on the daily leaderboard quite a bit, would it make sense to aggregate a longer-scale (monthly?) leaderboard as well with tournament-like scoring? That is, the top ~N daily players get a certain number of points that are accumulated to the monthly scores. This could highlight/reward the players that have the best strategy overall, possibly eliminating much of the randomness.

=> 🍀 gritty [OP] · 2024-04-13 at 23:52:

Neat idea. I'll have to think on this a bit and try something.

=> 🍀 gritty [OP] · 2024-04-21 at 20:17:

Added an all-time high score to the leaderboard. today's top scorer will kick it off. Tomorrow we'll see if I didn't mess something up.

sorry @skyjake, you had a good score yesterday too.

=> 🕹️ skyjake [...] · 2024-04-26 at 18:08:

@gritty I noticed you made some interface improvements a few days ago. Nice! 👍

I have a question: how is your random numbers being generated? Some typical PRNG or do you have a higher-quality source for randomness? Not sure how much difference it makes in the end. Something to look into one day, perhaps.

=> 🍀 gritty [OP] · 2024-04-27 at 00:00:

@skyjake thanks!

for the numbers, IIRC it's something fairly basic in Python. I noticed the dice don't seem to have the real life "feel" as well. I'm working on the tournament board you suggested, so once I finish that and squash the bug that just got id'd I'll check into the number generator.

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=> 🍀 gritty | — Play Here

Farkle — I created the game Farkle for Gemini. Instead of playing against one another, you get 10 rounds to score as high as you can and rank on a leaderboard for the day. I still need to fix my cron job to reset the game every day, but it should be rather functional. bug identification or suggestions welcomed.

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