Comment by 🐐 drh3xx
Re: "Fine-tuning to Reduce Tiny Games"
I quite like the challenge of the smaller games. Hopefully 70pts won't be too rare. I tend to prefer 140pts and under otherwise there are so many possible words I struggle to find the time to complete the game. Not sure how other peoples preferred ceiling on points would compare.
May 02 · 5 days ago
Original Post
Fine-tuning to Reduce Tiny Games — I don't know about you but for me, very small games are less enjoyable. When the total possible score of a game is something like 55, the number of words suffers -- there may be only a handful of words and after two the game gets tedious. Likewise, games that are too big get tedious, for the opposite reason -- the sheer quantity of words. During the game changeover, the new game is randomly generated with an upper and a lower limit, which was set to 55 and…