Heyo,
Recently I've been delving into the other games in SS. I have a collection of what I have so far here: https://www.twitch.tv/collections/U5rPNHvTCRYK1Q I've so far completed runs for Pyramid, Stonewall, Dozen't Matter, and Canfield. I plan to at least attempt the rest of the games as well.
In terms of categorization, I think it would be best to have the amount of cards that can be drawn be irrelevant to categories. For example, in Pyramid, flip can be changed to 1 flip or 3 flip, and drawing can be changed to one, three, or many. Pyramid is just about unwinnable without 'many' draw ('many' just referring to the fact that the deck can be cycled through indefinitely). I have yet to even win a game of 1 flip without >1 draw, and I'm additionally struggling to win a game of 3 flip even with many draw.
The rest of the 10 games that are not on the leaderboard for Super Solitaire are Golf, Cruel, Pyramid, Stonewall, Dozen't Matter, Aces Up, Florentine, Poker, Canfield, and Scorpion. If draw is deemed irrelevant, only Golf, Pyramid, and Canfield will have variations that constitute having two categories, with Golf's being the default Dead King or No Dead King, and both Pyramid and Canfield having 1 flip and 3 flip variants.
I'm good with setting that up. I've played a little of each and I only had fun on one of them (I think it was pyramid), but the games exist so there might as well be categories for them.
On that note, I'd like to add a variable to the games to show whether they were played with a mouse or not. This'd also make emulator games easier to integrate into the leaderboard, but it's significant enough of a difference from the regular controller that I think it should be noted. Thoughts?
I think that's a good idea about the variable.
Most of the mouse games I've played had this "Controller Type" including the type of mouse (i.e. SNES Controller, Hyperkin Mouse, SNES Mouse) since the Hyperkin (laser) mouse does give a speed advantage at its highest setting.
Can I ask the reason why you need to select 'New game' and go back to the game select screen every time you want to play a new hand? My runs were rejected because I selected 'redeal' instead of 'new game', even though the rules say you can select 'redeal'. It adds more clicking around menus and I'm not sure what the reason is, particularly for a game that you restart every 20-30 seconds on most occasions.
Also with Golf (No Dead King), you have to go and select 'No Dead King' again every time you start a new game.
If it uses the in-game timer why not just subtract the end time from the start time? Thanks
Hi webz! The reason is because when you restart by pressing "Redeal" you are not consistently starting on an even second. For example, you could start with a timer that's at 55.8 rather than 56.0 and so simply subtracting the later time from the first time is no longer accurate. Redeal is still required when playing a nonstandard variant, because otherwise moves could be made on an incorrect setting. Starting with New Game creates a consistent standard for everyone.
