Connect the world of ASCII with the world of REGEX.
Use the mouse to connect the falling red words with the correct green regular expression. You might want to learn regular expressions first. See http://perldoc.perl.org/perlrequick.html
The game starts immediately when the page has loaded,
including the music. You might want to turn the volume down.
To restart the game, just reload the page.
Tested on OSX in Safari 7.0, Firefox 31.0 and Chrome 36.0
Tested on Windows in Internet Explorer 11 (looks ugly!), Firefox 31.0 and Chrome 36.0
That is just bizarre. I love the idea of playing with regular expressions like that. I think that it could probably start a little slower and then maybe speed up and it got a little hard to keep going once most of the words were upside down. Also, I'm amused by the wordplay on the theme, although I'll still have to rate lower for that. Audio is awesome.
I like the play on words more than I liked the game. I did like the play on words quite a lot! The big drawback is that the idea has quite a niche market.
However, I had a lot of problems trying to click on the right word (it tended to give me a nearby word even though I clicked on the word itself), and I think some of the strings satisfy multiple expressions (though I don't know Regex very well so I could be wrong).
Yay, edutainment! One thing is clear: I suck at regex. Another thing that's clear is that when I start reading up on it more proper I will definetly come back to this game to exercise! I'm also a big fan of using your own recorded samplings =D
I think this is a really good concept. The music and the audio is good. I hope you make a post-compo entry that has more variation in the regexes. This could be a fun tool to practice my stagnating regex skills.
Hi there. Great idea. Got 310 first try... more next, but clicked away. Is frustrating that once you start dragging a link, if the source word gets knocked by incoming words, then the link breaks. Might also be nice if they flipped to shop word right way up - because rotating words in your head is not really part of Regex understanding - though it feels like that sometimes! Good and unusual job!
Looks interesting. Mouse position somehow not correctly calculated? I need to learn a programming-language to play the game? Maybe you can also include different themes, could be used as nice learning game for children, or vocabulary etc.
Concept and music are great !
Game engine has some issues... (I had trouble to drag \ element)
PS : Thanks to you I needed to revise my regexp x]