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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!
What does Beta testing mode mean?
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.
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
Posted on: Mon Jan 13, 2020 8:36am
The bigger grid and new color scheme of Robber is gonna take some getting used to, but I like it.