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The Daily Spell

Drop letters into place to unscramble today's magical headline. ✨ New puzzle and story daily! · By jamwitch, Celia

šŸž Bugs and feature requests Sticky

A topic by Celia created 6 days ago Views: 100 Replies: 8
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Developer (6 edits)

Please share any bugs you run into or feature requests to improve the game!

Known bugs

  • Completion data isn’t saved in Safari when playing on itch because of how the browser treats embedded content. Please use the ā€œUnlock all puzzlesā€ button for now.
  • The results copy button doesn’t work in some browsers for the same reason. You can select and copy the text instead.

Feature ideas list

  • Show a popup when you open the page (even if you have saved data) rather than jumping right into the puzzle.
  • Pause the timer when the game is not visible.
  • Improved how to play/tutorial.
  • Settings/info popup.
  • Bulk unlock from Archive page in case of lost progress.
  • Layout and styling tweaks - fix the purple showing if you scroll down on some phones, scale the puzzle slightly to fit better on phones, improve the animation on phones.
  • Add a button to rotate the game so you can play in landscape without taking off your portrait orientation lock.

Thanks everyone for your support and ideas. šŸ’œ

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Heyo, would you consider making a blank/make your own puzzle Version of this? I feel like it could be really cool as a puzzle for DnD or something :D

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

Got time for a couple tiny bug fixes, hopefully more fixes and improvements soon!

  • When you click the Replay button, the screen will scroll up to the top to ensure the puzzle shows.
  • Added a message to make it clearer if you complete a puzzle incorrectly: ā€œNot the expected headline. Check again.ā€
  • Changed the Reveal button to ā€œReveal errorā€ when the puzzle is filled in. It will remove one incorrect letter from the puzzle.

Thanks for everyone giving feedback, both small and big stuff helps. Castanea, re: puzzle creator - I really like the idea, will think about it longer-term!

it would be cool to have an 'add word' button (with limited use obviously) if you're having trouble with the headline...

Developer

Oh, can you explain more? If you mean revealing one of the words as a hint, does the Reveal a Letter button work for that? Or do you mean something different?

so the reveal a letter works for me, i just think that having a button where you can know the whole word would be nice. it's not a requirement though.

Developer

Got it! There’s probably not room for it as a new button in the current layout, but I could definitely see it as part of a hint menu, along with checking if what you have so far is correct… Will keep this in mind, thanks!

Hi, Celia! Thank you for such a great series and for your continued updates. 

Just a data point: my save data was lost when I logged on this am.  I don't know if that was due to your update to the save system and expected or not. It wasn't a problem for me since I was caught up, but I wanted to let you know. (Chrome 128.0.6613.138; macOS 10.15.7) :)

Developer

No, it wasn’t expected! šŸ™ Thanks for letting me know. It’s supposed to copy over the old save data to the new structure. The good news is the old save data should still be there so I can fix the copying if I can identify the problem.

It’s working okay for me in Chrome on Windows, so it’ll be hard to debug if something is particularly broken on Mac… If you have time/interest to help me debug by inspecting your localStorage, feel free to ping me on Discord, I’m celia14. But no pressure.