A suggestion on how to improve the battery charger puzzle

[jaf]

- Make the selected combination more visible when hovering over the triangles.

I see from other comments that ppl struggles to understand the logic. However difficult it might be it does not make it any easier when the color/shade difference between the selected combination and the rest is close to none. (Dark gray vs black) If a selected combintation was made more visible when hovering over the triangles it might be easier to understand the logic of the puzzle and give ppl a fair chance of solving it.

[SamSam]

Hi Jaf, thanks for the feedback. We'll increase the highlight opacity if you feel it's still not too obvious.

[Thorn]

Echoing this sentiment. I think you've got the colours the wrong way around. The base colour of the patterns should be black, and the highlight should be grey (or some other much brighter colour), not the other way around. Super hard to parse this puzzle because of that choice. Hopefully you can get it fixed up!

[smjjames]

Originally posted by SamSam:

Hi Jaf, thanks for the feedback. We'll increase the highlight opacity if you feel it's still not too obvious.

Wait, it hightlights when you hover over it? I didn't notice that.

[Shock ZX]

I managed to solve it, but it was a massive pain until I cottoned onto what the game was asking of me. I think the affected image tiles should pulse white to indicate what you're selecting by pressing a triangle button.

[Melandria]

Originally posted by Shock ZX:

I managed to solve it, but it was a massive pain until I cottoned onto what the game was asking of me. I think the affected image tiles should pulse white to indicate what you're selecting by pressing a triangle button.

+1
Or make it darker... Because like that it's awful to understand anything...

[Peanut Juggler]

This was a bit tough and too frustrating for the first puzzle, i can imagine people refunding over it. And i was getting some wrong even I knew the idea of the puzzle mostly. What finally helped me was I noticed if you hover over a triangle the symbols get highlighted (well darker) but it's so subtle that i almost thought it's just a flickering in the graphics. If the highlight was a bit stronger i would have got past this more easily.

[SamSam]

Originally posted by Peanut Juggler:

This was a bit tough and too frustrating for the first puzzle, i can imagine people refunding over it. And i was getting some wrong even I knew the idea of the puzzle mostly. What finally helped me was I noticed if you hover over a triangle the symbols get highlighted (well darker) but it's so subtle that i almost thought it's just a flickering in the graphics. If the highlight was a bit stronger i would have got past this more easily.

Hi there, thank you for the feedback. We actually might add a different kind of UI highlight to this mini-game as a few people already mentioned this. I'll let you know once it has been applied. Maybe you can give me your feedback if you like it or not ;) .. Thanks again.

[craig234]

Dev has been very helpful, but here they mention they'll let people know when they did an update, but that was March.

[SamSam]

Originally posted by craig234:

Dev has been very helpful, but here they mention they'll let people know when they did an update, but that was March.

Hi Craig, thanks for the comment, we come to the discussions board almost on a daily basis, helping out the players as much as we can, as we 'super appreciate' each and everyone. :)) I totally forgot to come back to this thread, thanks for reminding me. We've discussed the issue earlier on and it seems that most of the players didn't have a problem with the dark highlight in the first mini-game with regular brightness, so we decided not to change it at the end. If we'll get more complaints, we'll definitely get back to it again. ... The charging mini-game is one of the harder ones, so if you'll have any issues, you can let us know and we'll help you out. You can also join our discord if interested, for any tips or just to say 'Hi'. https://discord.gg/FUkEbuAj

( If for any reason you won't be able to open the link directly, I can send it via pm )

[Haruko]

The developer said they would increase the contrast but I didn't even notice the contrast and just played for the first time. It does not appear they really did anything at all. Please fix this. I was just as irritated as the rest of these players. NOT fun.

[SamSam]

Originally posted by Haruko:

The developer said they would increase the contrast but I didn't even notice the contrast and just played for the first time. It does not appear they really did anything at all. Please fix this. I was just as irritated as the rest of these players. NOT fun.

Hi Haruko, apologies that the contrast wasn't visible enough. We've ran tests earlier on and decided to go with this one at the end. I hope it it didn't mess up your overall experience with the rest of the game. If you'll have any issues or questions, feel free to drop us a message anytime.