Show HN: Quorbo – a quick and quirky quest for the quote

Show HN: Quorbo – a quick and quirky quest for the quote(quorbo.com)

9 points by projectsforlife 3 years ago | 8 comments

Hey HN,

Today I'm launching Quorbo (www.quorbo.com): a simple letter-revealing game (think Wheel of Fortune with some twists) where you get 6 turns to guess the day's quote!

It's my first post-parenthood side project and first web game. Being a working dad has caused me (for the first time, believe it or not) to focus on simplicity. Up until about a year ago, endless free time secretly plagued me... because I love _building_, and more free time meant: more room to add complexity.

Not anymore! Quorbo is the first of my initial batch of three simple word games, and I can't wait to make more.

Let me know what you think! (improvements, bugs / quirky behavior / stumbling blocks, any and all feedback welcome!)

Enjoy!

mrec 3 years ago |

Fun! I can see it being quite addictive; is it going to be possible to play puzzles other than the current day's, once you've built some up?

Edit with some more thoughts:

- Linking to Ebay for the source is an odd choice; is this the monetization plan?

- Layout feels a bit weird and cluttered. In particular, on web (Firefox) the drop-shadowed panel completely hides the onscreen keyboard unless you scroll all the way down for some reason. I just typed guesses, which worked fine.

projectsforlife 3 years ago | |

Hey thanks! Yeah, so I have considered that, especially the previous week's puzzles. I am wary of a potential key to wordle's success though, which is--after you've played, the best way to keep playing is vicariously through others

On eBay: yup that's the plan. Their affiliate program has quite generous terms, moreso than Amazon.

On the keyboard issue: sounds like it may be a bug. Did you by chance play the practice round first? Looking into it. [Edit: looks like a display issue for the non-mobile version of the game on certain screen sizes, workin on a fix]

mrec 3 years ago | | |

I don't understand "vicariously through others" - can you expand? I haven't played wordle.

On the bug, I did play the practice round first, but I still get the same thing now on a new page load. Looks like it's caused by the div#modalIdBox having position:relative for no very obvious reason.

xypage 3 years ago |

I would advise commenting out every console.log() for your production version, I didn't check till after I played but it's pretty easy to just see what the quote is there, and even without that I think having that much of (what I assume is) debug info showing up for users seems undesirable, to me at least.

projectsforlife 3 years ago | |

Ah right, thanks for that. Had meant to but some life events a few days ago moved up my launch schedule by a few weeks, will clean that up. Thanks. [update: 95% of the .log() messages are now cleaned up including any spoilers, also fixed some display bugs another tester/player mentioned. I did not force push the change out to everyone's PWAs, but if your new to the game or reload manually, you'll see the newest version]