Some folks (who I know IRL) have become addicted to Snake! and they noted a bug, which I fixed. Since I was updating it anyway, I threw in two "enhancements", one is a length counter in the lower right corner, and the other is a "bulge" where the snake has eaten a pellet.
They have become fiercely competetive, with the current high score at 161, maximum board size, and all other settings at defaults.
It's starting to look like I need to hook Snake! into my online top scores system....
However.
The settings for Snake are too customizable to have a high score for each combination (there are nearly 12 million combinations), and it would take way too much research to "weight" the scoring system based on the settings in a fair and balanced manner.
I think what I may do is make a special setting that counts for "ladder" or "tournament" play, with the particular settings that these folks are already using, and only those count for top scores.
Dunno. Any suggestions?
- Pick 3 or 4 common combinations and rank those.
- Rank all results together, with a comment/tag regarding the configuration that was played with. Allow users to filter/sort/group by configuration element.
hth
Jack