I accidentally hit Alt-Bkspc instead of Ctrl-Enter and lost all my state. Gah. Had I been a little farther along I probably wouldn't have been willing to start over to get back to where I was.
It would be nice if the game put itself in the history, so that Back would only take you to (say) the previous challenge. (That would also really help when you're trying to remember the syntax of a command.)
Little know fact: there are 'save codes' - you can load the codes using hashtags, e.g. http://thechoice.amos.me/#firstdoor will bring you right to the programming part.
Didn't take the time to update the hash to reflect that though - some people would've noticed the URL has changed, others wouldn't have, and I would have needed to find an interface artifact to make sure most people get it.
TL;DR design is fucking hard but if you dig most dev-friendly features are in.
As for backspace doing back, blame your favorite browser maker. And change the defaults. And report an issue. That behavior (previous on back) was always idiotic, imho.
Can you list some of the save codes for us? I've lost state more than a few times (old habit of hitting command-r to run code doesn't work well in browser-based development).
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I accidentally hit Alt-Bkspc instead of Ctrl-Enter and lost all my state. Gah. Had I been a little farther along I probably wouldn't have been willing to start over to get back to where I was.
It would be nice if the game put itself in the history, so that Back would only take you to (say) the previous challenge. (That would also really help when you're trying to remember the syntax of a command.)
Little know fact: there are 'save codes' - you can load the codes using hashtags, e.g. http://thechoice.amos.me/#firstdoor will bring you right to the programming part.
Didn't take the time to update the hash to reflect that though - some people would've noticed the URL has changed, others wouldn't have, and I would have needed to find an interface artifact to make sure most people get it.
TL;DR design is fucking hard but if you dig most dev-friendly features are in.
As for backspace doing back, blame your favorite browser maker. And change the defaults. And report an issue. That behavior (previous on back) was always idiotic, imho.
Can you list some of the save codes for us? I've lost state more than a few times (old habit of hitting command-r to run code doesn't work well in browser-based development).
firstdoor, twodoors, secret, randomsecret, conditionals, lying, ship
Maybe store the game state in cookies so it can be resumed implicitly, but have the game restarted explicitly, by clearing them?