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Site Update
As many will know, Flash is coming to an end and will, within the next year, not be supported by browsers. This of course meant an untimely death for our Snake, Grave Robber, and Sky Blocks if we didn't act - so we acted!
Now coded in HTML5, and given a bit of a facelift, we are proud to set out the new games in Beta testing mode!
It means we need to really put the games to the test. They've passed muster with staff, but now they need to hold up to you lovely people. Putting it into Beta for the whole site to access means we're going to get more data, more feedback, and therefore have more information to alter, change, or fix anything that may come up.
What are the changes?
Grave Robber
- Has been renamed Minerva's Greenhouse (also commonly referred to as 'Garden Robber').
- Expanded the grid from 6x6 to 7x7.
- New items to match the new theme.
- Optional music and sound effects.
Sky Blocks
- Has been renamed to Falling Blocks
- Scoring update: You now earn more score clearing multiple lines at a time, rather than the static 25 points each line.
- Added a preview state to all falling pieces. This should allow for quicker more accurate game play.
- Added ability to slam pieces for quicker game play
Snake (on hold, but will be released by the end of the weekend)
- Larger playing field.
- Game now has only 1 difficulty level.
- Removed bird/bonus points.
General System Changes
- Scores will auto submit to the server. You no longer have to choose if you want to submit your score or not.
- BP will now be awarded for all games played up to a maximum payout of 120,000 BP for normal Users, and 200,000 for Premium Users. This amount is calculated across all 3 games. (Previously Users could submit 3 scores per game, and Premium Users 6 scores per game).
- All scores from all completed games will be submitted to the server - so if you've maxed out your BP gains and then reach your best score, that score will still be counted.
- All three games work on mobile.
These games will be up for Beta testing over the next month, at which point we'll look at the data to see if anything needs to be changed, and all things going well they will permanently replace the Flash versions next month.
If you run into any issues please submit them to the correct thread in the Glitches and Issues forum, with as much information about the device you were using to play and what happened as possible to give us the best chances as fixing it.
Posted by *Yasu
(#3410) on Fri Jan 10, 2020 3:35pm
- Tae
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Posted on: Fri Jan 10, 2020 4:11pm
Thank you for the updates ^ ^ I always loved Grave robber, it was how I got my starter BP as a new player to afford nets and adventure more. I still like playing it today. I can't wait to test out the new version.
- Tsukasa
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Posted on: Fri Jan 10, 2020 4:15pm
aw YEAH
- Elisabeth
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Posted on: Fri Jan 10, 2020 4:21pm
Great updates,team! :D Now we don't have to worry about earning SP anymore from those previous versions when Flash is gone :D I didn't know how I was going to even get as many pets from there as I can! Or a Dragon Lotus.
- Lady Cassidy
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Posted on: Fri Jan 10, 2020 4:30pm
Regarding Sky Blocks/Falling Blocks: YES!!!! I am a Tetris Queen and always found it odd to not get extra points for clearing multiple lines and the entire board. I had a chance to play Tetris on an actual arcade machine a couple of years back and impressed some people. I earn SP on Sky Blocks every month and will have to get used to Falling Blocks but am looking forward to giving it a try!
- Mal
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Posted on: Fri Jan 10, 2020 4:43pm
I can actually play a game! I mean I'm horrible at falling blocks but I wasn't able to do flash so I'm glad I can do something! 😌
- ErrantMisty
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Posted on: Fri Jan 10, 2020 5:05pm
I'm not a fan of the new greenhouse game. The background being bright in the squares and dark in the wheel makes it difficult to match the pieces, and the gold lines are distracting.
- bd84
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Posted on: Fri Jan 10, 2020 5:08pm
ErrantMisty (#51563) i feel the same way. Its much harder to play than the old version because of these things.
- ChaosAzeroth
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Posted on: Fri Jan 10, 2020 5:37pm
I do not like this auto send. We only get so many chances to get BP, and with the Minerva game there's a good chance of getting decimated and it sending anyway. I just had a terrible score send that I would never choose to. 1 out of 6 tries down the drain. Now this new system is only good for people goin for SP...
- ChaosAzeroth
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Posted on: Fri Jan 10, 2020 5:38pm
And I misread omg. Okay so no cap? Auto send isn't a big deal then. (Teach me to try to process this much information when I'm sick.)
Posted on: Fri Jan 10, 2020 3:59pm
Huzzah! Thank you for this.