Comments on: Nodes Of Yesod: Odd Foes – Yes/No? http://podgamer.com/3750/nodes-of-yesod-dyed-foes-soon/ game reviews and features for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, except not rubbish Sat, 27 Nov 2010 00:06:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Steve Wetherill http://podgamer.com/3750/nodes-of-yesod-dyed-foes-soon/comment-page-1/#comment-567 Steve Wetherill Wed, 10 Nov 2010 20:58:50 +0000 http://podgamer.com/?p=3750#comment-567 Stu - the scoring generally follows the model of the original game, which had three lives, etc. Continue was added to classic mode late in the day mostly because it is quite hard to complete the original game without it (and we wanted to complete the game ourselves as part of our testing). For a while there was no continue in classic mode, but we thought better of that. Stu – the scoring generally follows the model of the original game, which had three lives, etc. Continue was added to classic mode late in the day mostly because it is quite hard to complete the original game without it (and we wanted to complete the game ourselves as part of our testing). For a while there was no continue in classic mode, but we thought better of that.

]]> By: RevStu http://podgamer.com/3750/nodes-of-yesod-dyed-foes-soon/comment-page-1/#comment-561 RevStu Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:54:13 +0000 http://podgamer.com/?p=3750#comment-561 Cheers for the info, Steve. It does still rather beg the question "What's the point of having three lives?", though. If you can continue infinitely and losing more lives affects your score, why confuse people with an essentially meaningless "Game Over" message after three? Why not just have infinite lives, a display telling you how many you've lost, and the opportunity to start a completely new game if you want a clean slate? Cheers for the info, Steve. It does still rather beg the question “What’s the point of having three lives?”, though. If you can continue infinitely and losing more lives affects your score, why confuse people with an essentially meaningless “Game Over” message after three? Why not just have infinite lives, a display telling you how many you’ve lost, and the opportunity to start a completely new game if you want a clean slate?

]]> By: Steve Wetherill http://podgamer.com/3750/nodes-of-yesod-dyed-foes-soon/comment-page-1/#comment-558 Steve Wetherill Wed, 10 Nov 2010 03:45:19 +0000 http://podgamer.com/?p=3750#comment-558 Thx for the review RevStu. I've posted a couple of responses to the review on the Nodes mini-blog site (http://nodesofyesodgame.blogspot.com) but figured I may as well post here. You made an update regarding continues (the game has infinite continues, just resume to continue) but then asked, "why bother when the game has no scores?" In fact, the game has a "percent complete" score (we use OpenFeint to surface the leaderboard itself). One of the factors in the percent complete score is the number of lives you have "used" at the point a high score is submitted. Losing a lot of lives will significantly reduce your overall score. Agreed that this is not obvious when playing the game, but there you have it. Anyway, thanks again for the review. I think it is pretty accurate and fair. Steve Wetherill Thx for the review RevStu.

I’ve posted a couple of responses to the review on the Nodes mini-blog site (http://nodesofyesodgame.blogspot.com) but figured I may as well post here.

You made an update regarding continues (the game has infinite continues, just resume to continue) but then asked, “why bother when the game has no scores?”

In fact, the game has a “percent complete” score (we use OpenFeint to surface the leaderboard itself). One of the factors in the percent complete score is the number of lives you have “used” at the point a high score is submitted. Losing a lot of lives will significantly reduce your overall score.

Agreed that this is not obvious when playing the game, but there you have it.

Anyway, thanks again for the review. I think it is pretty accurate and fair.

Steve Wetherill

]]> By: Toby Jug http://podgamer.com/3750/nodes-of-yesod-dyed-foes-soon/comment-page-1/#comment-549 Toby Jug Tue, 09 Nov 2010 08:25:20 +0000 http://podgamer.com/?p=3750#comment-549 When i was little, in my head i often said the name of this game backwards, i.e. Dosey Fo Sedon, i think i got a little obsessed with it and this review has made me start doing it again ;-(. When i was little, in my head i often said the name of this game backwards, i.e. Dosey Fo Sedon, i think i got a little obsessed with it and this review has made me start doing it again ;-(.

]]> By: RobF http://podgamer.com/3750/nodes-of-yesod-dyed-foes-soon/comment-page-1/#comment-537 RobF Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:49:45 +0000 http://podgamer.com/?p=3750#comment-537 Yeah, I thought it was a well done port and I don't begrudge splashing out on it but it's still Nodes Of Yesod. Which means it's better than Underwurlde but worse than most games made since. Still, I'd love to see more authors take Steve's lead and get some of their old stuff up there. Yeah, I thought it was a well done port and I don’t begrudge splashing out on it but it’s still Nodes Of Yesod.

Which means it’s better than Underwurlde but worse than most games made since.

Still, I’d love to see more authors take Steve’s lead and get some of their old stuff up there.

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