Bug Fixes and Tweaks

You might have noticed that Tudle differs from its inspiration in that names and proper nouns are included in its word list (the words you can guess with and that randomly get chosen to be the word of the day). Well, I like proper nouns, but something about having the random word of the day being Timmy, Sally, or Bobby isn't quite the play experience I want to have when I play Tudle (sorry to the Timmys, Sallys, and Bobbys of the world). So, we removed the common name words, as well as the family names. However, there are still names of important historical figures in the list. Additionally, all other proper nouns (geographical places) remain.

Arcade Games

We released more content :D No, unfortunately it's not Flappy Dog... yet. I had an aha moment late at night (again), and realized that using copilot I could quickly iterate on simple 70s era arcade games as long I instructed the bot to keep the graphics simple geometric shapes and greyscale. Most of the first cuts were... rough. For example Geometry Invader's first cut had a user block that could move and three triangle enemies floating and not moving. There was no shooting, score, enemy movement, etc. With iteration and several human code inserted features, eventually we got the games mentioned in the features section below. There are several other games in the works of the same style, so expect more to be released from time to time.

As for Flappy Dog, I want that to use better graphics and be more polished than the geometry series, although I have basically given up on trying to create a version with fully featured animations. Hey, something's gotta give somewhere. Expect more updates soon.

Bug Tracking

I'm tracking a bug where some users can't successfully use "Remembered Devices". I'm stumped at the moment because I can't reproduce the bug in production or in development. I'm in contact with a couple of the users and plan on using their device and live McGyvering a fix.

Email Updates

We're working on getting email authentication and newsletters working. The way this will go:

• At launch every current user will become "unverified"
• Every user will receive a verification email that you'll need to click respond to
• A new checkbox will appear in your account page - "subscribe to email updates"
• Some future application will require verification before use
• Any applications that require extra communciations will have a separate checkbox associated with that application and its communications

Stay Gold, Ponyboy,

Matt