Rolled out an update today: Version 0.7.7131-Beta
What's New
- Delete key now clears the entire current word of any wrong characters and moves the cursor to the beginning of the word.
- One issue is when you get to only one remaining letter missing in a word and you enter the wrong letter it may feel like nothing is happening if you don't notice the change in the puzzle (seeing the red box and clearing the letter very quickly). Might need to find a better solution for this at some point.
- Fixed issue with verse Isaiah 41:10. The word "I" was appearing in multiple different locations in the puzzle. The idea is to never have a duplicate word as more than one separate answer for the puzzle. So answering once should always fill all matches of the word. There might be some other remaining puzzles that will need to be fixed, but I will have to fix those as I come across them.
Road Map
These are the things I hope to build into the app someday. These may or may not happen but they are what I am currently working on behind the scenes.
- Play Packs:
Idea: Groups of verses ("Play Packs") instead of randomly selected verses.
Progress: Haven't started. - Custom Play Packs:
Idea: User generated puzzles saved into play packs.
Progress: Built a puzzle generator. Needs a user interface and is waiting on main menu with play packs to be completed first. - Mini games:
Idea: Playable mini-games (for example they could be similar to: pong, flappy-bird, minesweeper, etc.) the purpose being to break up game play and to acquire power-ups to be used on puzzles.
Progress: Haven't started. - Power-ups:
Idea: Gained from mini-games, storable and usable for things like narrowing the keyboard to only letters for the current word, solving all of one letter on the puzzle, etc.
Progress: Haven't started. Waiting on mini-games to be completed first. - Sounds:
Idea: Default to off but allow to be toggled on
Progress: Haven't started. - Better Graphics/Animation:
Idea: After core functionality is built in I hope to start working on the graphics, animation, and general "gamification" of the app.
Progress: Added in some playful animations but they caused lots of issues and had to remove them. Need to start over with these.