Okay. I almost rated you low for a simple port solitaire; then I thought, well this may be the persons first game and was learning a tool so I went back and looked at whether or not you had done LD before and saw a bunch of games and realized some thing is not right here. You gave some really subtle clues I missed the first time, and some good misdirection in the comments. Well played sir.
Yeah the performance issues seem more browser dependent - for me (i7, so presumably no hardware issues, heh), Firefox is almost unplayable since the screen hardly ever updates while dragging - on the other hand Chrome is perfectly fine.
You made my LD, it was really an experience! (and I almost gave up to the first game as I didn't understand the point, when a lucky move of the mouse sent me in a different space)
This really blew me away with its hidden layers! I'm also glad there are plenty of ways to goof off in addition to solving the main problem. Excellent use of theme, and generally a super charming experience!
[SPOILER] Any clue for how to beat the game? I think the trick is to close everything exploiting a bug. So far I could duplicate many icons but not really make them disappear. Maybe gathering all the icons in one window you could close would do the trick but I couldn't manage to do that...
Took me a while to understand what goes where, very clever.
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Cake&Code8 May 2013, 06:40
Really cool! I didn't notice that you could min the window. :) The solitaire was tricky and it was an interesting take on the minimalism theme. Great work!
I normally skip the comments and go right to the game - I am so glad I came back to read them. I loved this and that sense of discovery (especially when it comes to breaking the 4th wall).
For those complaining about lag, it's most likely your browser. Same computer, ran it in Firefox and it was painfully slow. Ran in Chrome, was smooth as it should be. This mimics my experience with other Javascript games (both in compo and my own). Javascript/HTML5 just isn't very consistent yet...
Very interesting take on the theme :P Not much for replayability, but it was interesting and nostalgic.
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It does need a fast computer or a fast browser, sorry. :)
Not sure how to progress further, or if I can, and don't want to post spoilers to find out :P
[SPOILER]
Any clue for how to beat the game? I think the trick is to close everything exploiting a bug. So far I could duplicate many icons but not really make them disappear. Maybe gathering all the icons in one window you could close would do the trick but I couldn't manage to do that...
Still, great recreation of Windows 3.1 and the initial surprise of closing Dragondrop.
The ending was very minimalistic ;-)
Very interesting take on the theme :P Not much for replayability, but it was interesting and nostalgic.
PS.: my screen is now only black, did I win?
Very good job ;-)