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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Gnoga - The GNU Omnificent GUI for Ada
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 12:51:35 +0300
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On 14-09-28 12:18 , Niklas Holsti wrote:

> After several attempts, it seems that the a,w,s,d keys do work, but the
> game is rapid enough, and over so quickly if one makes a mistake, that
> there is hardly any time to try things and learn how they work, on the
> first attempt. 

 ...

> Suggestions:

 ...

> 1. Make it clear that the initial screen, with the growing row of
> asterisks, is not yet the game, and does not respond to the a,w,s,d keys.

and

1.5 The game should not respond to any buffered a,w,s,d keys the user
may have pressed, by mistake, while seeing the asterisk row grow, before
the game really starts. I think this was one of my initial problems.

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Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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