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Solitaire Bowling and Dice

by William Lee Sims · in Torque Game Builder · 03/12/2006 (11:26 am) · 1 replies

Hi All! I've been playing with TGB for a while and decided to try some solitaire games with an internet high score table. Since I seed each solitaire game with a unique seed, everybody plays the same games. I use this to create artificial opponents... they are just other players who have already played the game.

wsims.com/JWS/WebGameImages/SSBowl.jpgwsims.com/JWS/WebGameImages/SSDice.jpg
If you are interested, just visit wsims.com. Although I am done working on it for now, if you have any comments to make, I would interested in hearing. Thanks!
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03/17/2006 (7:39 pm)
Hi All! After hearing that my mother couldn't figure out how to play this game I realized I needed an in-game tutorial. Philip Mansfield suggested little dialog boxes. I ended up putting check-boxes in each game called "Help Bubbles". "Text boxes" tell you what to do now. "Thought bubbles" provide helpful tips. While not very comprehensive (that's what the web instructions are for), I think it gets the idea across.

I was wondering if somebody here could download the game and do a quick test to see if they get the gist, or if I should put more details in the bubbles.

Here are one sentence summaries of each game:
Bowling Solitaire - You try to remove "pin cards" using the "ball cards"; Scoring works like bowling.
Solitaire Dice - You are trying to get a high score without scoring into too many categories.

If you care to read the web instructions, they can be found here.

Thanks!