The Dot Game is a wholehearted copy of the original SameGame, except for one difference. Both the original and the dot say you get a bonus for leaving fewer dots left at the end, but until now, that wasn’t true for my version. I just couldn’t figure out the bonus calculation. Well, it took me a bit of playing, but I deciphered it:
var bonus = num_dots_left > 0 ? FLOOR(125/num_dots_left) : 250;
Simple huh? Now you’ll get those extra points you’ve been missing out on. By the way, does anyone play? What’s your high score? Should be higher now.
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[...] So the Dotgame is exactly like the original SameGame, except for one thing (and my less-than-optimal graphics abilities). At the end of the phone version, you get bonus points for having fewer dots left, but I haven’t figured out the value pattern for that. A few test games shows the following: Dots-Left/Bonus 19/6 16/7 10/12 8/15 4/31 If anyone sees the pattern, let me know. I’m sort of slower and stupider these days. [update]The bonus was rather simple.[/update] [...]
April 23rd, 2007 at 7:36 pm