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Awesome game! I translated into Italian all the strings in the files you provided in the readme. Here they are:

• full_description.txt
• short_description.txt
• app_it.txt

Notice: I didn't encode extendedMessage back to base64 because I didn't want to screw it up, but I can provide an encoded version.

Wouldn't it make more sense if X+9 for example was 9 as 10+9 is 19 and without the first digit it's 9?
Sure it would then be too easy to find the solution but it would make sense.

And also why is 0-3 8? This only makes sense if you think unlogical 2 times

There should be a detailed help feature that should list how to play the game

Im stuck in level 5 and need a bit more challanges

This issue tracks a minor upstream issue with Flutter 3.16+. It only affects Android.

flutter/flutter#139477

After returning from the settings screen, the screen does not refresh instantly with the new settings applied, but only after about a half second delay.

Potential workaround is setting allowEnterRouteSnapshotting to false. See also https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/119897#issuecomment-1735122286.

It's fun, gladly more of it!

• Almost beat the game (the game is quite good)
• Shut down pc
• Turn it on next day
• Open the game
• Get frustrated as progress is reset

Some local storage object with progress will definitely improve the UX, then it could be possible to edit it via browser to fix lost progress.

As asked with the title, the link the "about" popup currently isn't clickable, it should be.

Fun fact added to it, as the link wasn't clickable and I was too lazy at first, this repo seems to be unknown to Google (not DDG), "mwageringel github everest" find nothing relevant to here nor the website, but removing "everest" from the query does find your profile or other repos.

There needs to be more help in guiding the player to understand the puzzle.

As a designer, one needs to first introduce a concept, test that the player understands this concept, then challenge them with a harder version of the concept or by combining multiple concepts.

Level 1 is difficult for so many players because the only concept introduced prior to this point is addition. While "X" could be introduced more helpfully, it is introduced, but there is no introduction to the relation between problems. Most of the sums are conventional arithmetic, so patterns won't stand out. The lack of obvious connection between 0 + 0 = 0 and 3 + 1 = 4 fails entirely to teach how the joined answers mechanic works, as adding and subtracting 0 is understood by most people who can do arithmetic, and a right-handed player may miss the design queue entirely due to their hand obscuring the right side of the screen. You may want the player to instead view the entire level's sums before coming to the answer, but the player hasn't been introduced to their ability to scroll the page or skip questions, and may not know this is possible.

It is, in fact, very easy for the player to miss the purpose of the level entirely by brute-forcing individual answers, and still be unable to find any relation between the questions. This means the player does not have to demonstrate they have an understanding of relations between questions, that the sums should not always be solved arithmetically, etc. and doesn't have the skills to proceed.

While it is laudable to attempt a game without a written tutorial, it doesn't mean that there shouldn't be a tutorial at all. As the game is inspired by The Witness, I suggest looking up some analyses of the game's design, which will explain this concept far better than I can. The Game Maker's Toolkit video essay How Jonathon Blow Designs A Puzzle is a good starting point if you haven't seen it before.

I hope this is some helpful feedback.

I understand that the objective of the game is to discover the rules of it, but no answer to the sum X + X will validate. Two "digit" responses appear to be interpret as to successive one-"digit" responses, and none seems accepted, meaning I'm stuck. Is this an error or a feature?

I have no idea what plans you might have for this game, but I wanted to offer my experience playing it along with a suggestion to help make the game longer and more replayable. Markdown doesn't have spoiler tags, so I'm carefully watching my words. I'll try to indicate what concepts I mean by explaining when I figured them out and perhaps sneaking in some keywords.

I have a relatively strong background in mathematics, and I was already familiar with the material which formed the basis of the game, although I did not realize this is what the game was going to be. I had two "Aha!" moments where I figured out a major secret.

• One was very early, and was actually spoiled by the keypad (This one should be obvious, but it's why seven plus eight did NOT equal fifteen. Let's call it "Secret 1".).
• The other came a bit later. There were multiple levels which involved multiplication of the form 'a|b * c|d = ...'. In the first level, I came up with what seemed to be an arbitrary rule that worked consistently though. Shortly afterward, I realized the rule wasn't arbitrary (I understood the complexities of the interactions between the values, if you know what I mean! Call this "Secret 2".).
• After that, the remainder of the game was as fun as grade school math homework. There's a third secret I could have noticed, which you pointed out in your end-of-game message, but it's really just a formal way to combine the first two secrets. The first two secrets set you up to solve the rest of the playing field. Call that "Secret 3".

What I'd suggest is to add extra sets of levels where you change the secrets. There is the most obvious, trivial, variation on Secret 1, but you could perhaps explore a "balanced" variation, or a "bijective" variation. If you know what "Secret 1" is, you should be able to google it in combination with either of the keywords "balanced" or "bijective" to see what I mean, but I don't think either of those words are sufficient on their own to figure it out. Let me know if my clues are not clear enough.

For Secret 2, there are straightforward extensions that can you could use. The next level up in complexity is generally represented with the letter H. You could maybe even extend it to infinity, which is valid mathematically, but I'm not sure how it would work in the game. When you take the concept to infinity, the term for that also begins with the letter H, somewhat confusingly. There's not much more I can say without spoiling anything.

For Secret 3, you could base variations on changing Secret 1 and Secret 2 (as described), but as you probably already know, there are also alternative choices for Secret 3 that CANNOT be decomposed into a Secret-1-ish concept and a Secret-2-ish concept. There are options beyond addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and exponents.

Writing that was more difficult than I expected. Hopefully it made sense.

No digit is working. Started with 8 and then tried all other. All get a red cross. Don't know if I just don't get it or it's a bug

Issue:

After starting the app, everything looks fine. Any scrolling quickly messes everything up completely. I attached some screenshots but the glitches aren't purely static. During any animation there is also some severe flickering. The app is practically unusable for me (which seems to be a pity ;)).

Platform used:

Old phone, 2GB RAM, Adreno 320 GPU, running the latest Lineage 18.1 build (Android 11)

If you need any more info, let me know. Thanks in advance.

Screenshots:

I hate to do this, but it's keeping me awake and this is all I'm gonna think about: can I get a hint for the multiplication questions?

This is a really fun and interesting game!
Sometimes I want to let my friends try this game on my phone, so what I ended up doing is resetting the score for them, having to replay the same levels a couple of times.
I think a great improvement to this game would be a guest mode, a way to replay the game without losing my score. The web version can be used to try out the game, but still, having a guest feature in the game would be pretty cool and useful.

for example in level 1, there is 3+7=?. I cannot insert 10.
NOTE: it happens both on android application and web version

The font fonts/NotoSansMath-Regular.ttf as declared in pubspec.yaml is missing in this repository and has to be manually added to complete the build process. Is that intentional?

Error Log:

$ flutter build web

💪 Building with sound null safety 💪

Error: unable to locate asset entry in pubspec.yaml: "fonts/NotoSansMath-Regular.ttf".
Target web_release_bundle failed: Exception: Failed to bundle asset files.
Compiling lib/main.dart for the Web...                             414ms
Exception: Failed to compile application for the Web.

We need a button in the app. Called 'Center' so that it acts like a 'Enter' button.
If this is possible of course.
I'm just testing the game on the TV, it works. But there is no input button on the remote 😅

I read an earlier issue where it was said that when the answer is 10 you should use X. But it is not specified that X = -1 aswell.

Maybe it's an option to say that when the app starts for the first time?

I have to calculate in level 1 3+7=? Where ?=10. But as I can only enter one number like 1 or 0 I cant seem to get past it.

Thank you!

Thank you for your project and software!

Thank you for maintenance in the past and in the future!

Kind regards and season's greetings!

I would like to translate the game to german.

If you're interested and don't know how it's done, here's the documentation. :)
I am interested in implementing it myself, but I can't guarantee anything, since my experience with flutter and dart is very limited.

Thanks for this nice game, it's awesome! 🎉

I liked it very much

you can't answer 10 for by example 7+3... the field is for only one char