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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
- Ngeru ๐
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Posted on: Fri Jan 10, 2020 6:39pm
If I'm understanding correctly, there is a cap on the amount of BP you can earn each day but not how many times you can play.
- ChaosAzeroth
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Posted on: Fri Jan 10, 2020 7:08pm
Vergil (#8740) I realized that after my dumb butt posted lol. Thanks for making sure and the well wishes.
- odin
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Posted on: Sat Jan 11, 2020 5:39am
I like them but could there be sizing options? The sky blocks one is fine for me, but some of the images on the grave robber game are hard for me to see because I have terrible eyes. lol
- ๐ηววเคฐเธช๐
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Posted on: Sat Jan 11, 2020 7:58am
Much as I preferred defiling the graves and desecrating the corpses of regular Aywans, to stealing... herbs... from a fellow misanthropic practitioner of dark sorcery, I must say that the changes made to (artifice formerly known as) Grave Robber are incredible! The HTML5 uplift functions flawlessly so far on mobile. Also, I appreciate that I can now perform my unlawful item theft(s) (which are then sold in black markets for BP) on a mobile device - while on the go! Hahahaha, they'll never catch me now :P
- Marrorow
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Posted on: Sat Jan 11, 2020 10:28am
I love how they can be played mobile. A great update! :D
- Snuggles [ToT]
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Posted on: Sat Jan 11, 2020 10:37am
Only thing I'd really like to see changed so far on the greenhouse game is to make the bottom row (candle lit one) all come up and stop spinning a bit faster. In grave robber they stop in order in a consecutive time instead of random order random time. It's making it a lot harder for me to focus / concentrate on the game the way it is now.
- RavenFeather
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Posted on: Sat Jan 11, 2020 12:23pm
Not a huge fan of these games opening in a whole new browser window, especially since I have two monitors and the new window always opens in the very top left corner on my main one. So when I'm using my side monitor, which I do a lot when going on sites like Aywas, I have to drag the window all the way over to my side. Having them open in a new tab of the existing browser window would be much better, if it's possible to change.
- Elisabeth
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Posted on: Sat Jan 11, 2020 6:03pm
Did I imagine it, or can you get multiple extra candles given per candle now? Because that's wonderful if it's really possible!
- Elaina
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Posted on: Sun Jan 12, 2020 2:26am
This is amazing, thank you!
Posted on: Fri Jan 10, 2020 6:35pm
ChaosAzeroth (#43055) There is a BP cap.
"- 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. "
(I hope you get better soon c:)