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Kokaro => Site Discussion => Topic started by: drath on May 24, 2010, 12:24:48 PM
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I thought I would just have this planned list of to-do work on the site in case people were wondering what is coming up in the future. They are in no order, and maybe half of them will never actually get realized.
- Auction House
- Engraver NPC
- The Laundromat
- Pets
- Disenchanter
- Equipment refinement (+1, +2, etc.) and equipment page changes.
- Battle system - Add monsters/bestiary
- PVP
- Daily wheel game
- Ranking icons
- Adventure/challenge mode
- Video game trivia
- Screenshot game
Item counts are off - Fix this- Achievements
- Alphabetized/paginated game/highscore listings
- Researcher NPC
- Referral system
- Story Mode
- Revamp of search functions (don't use Google)
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Surprise BagView All Medallion ButtonThe ThiefFix example on Magic Info pageRules pageAdd new sorting field for items to fix item # issues. Did you know there's no item #18 due to this issue? This will also allow to add more items into each set (I'm missing some items).Missing Castlevania/Doom 64 items.Make drop shadow more subtle on avatars/items.Highest scores (a highest score that is kept after resets)Add filtering/finding in inventory actions.Games played is brokenFix being able to sell the costume you are wearingShow your avatar in forumImplement effects of Fortune/Bartering/PersuasionReservation system changes - Don't allow removal from sellerHint pageAfter a score has been submitted that does not meet minimum score to be submitted, have a button for returning to game (and for guest score submission page)Only active (6 months) players are shown in top 20 leaderboardCostume ShopGame reviews/commentatingUp the max price for vendorForgot passwordAvatarsVillage drop down menuCollection Collector NPCNew player bonusEquipment footwear fixSite feed RSSImplement gold tossing system for commentsQuoteboxRemove 00:00 on high-scoresMake it rarer for rarer items to show up for sale in MarketplaceFeatured daily game for bonusesQuotes page (with credits)Enchanted/magic only sort functionAffiliates page re-format/footer addShow who last won lottery on lottery pageDon't allow purchasing of your own items on your profile
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When there's eventually a better item sorting system, perhaps a "see enchanted items only" page?
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Added new items to the to-do... it's growing pretty big.
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Things that most annoy me is that I need to flip through pages for inventory or games, if I select see all then it only works until I make whatever action then need to again (enchanter) and that the next / back pages buttons are at the bottom.
Like anything that requires more than 5 pages should probably have a < 1 2 3 4 5 > at the top of that page.
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For The:
"More incentive to play less-played games (more items/money?)Thing"
I Was Thinking Like, Maybe A Random Less-Played Game, Could Have A Gold Bonus On A Certain Week Or Something Like That, It Could Be Advertised On The Main Page, And Who Ever Gets The Highest Score At The End Of The Week Gets An Item Or Something ~
I Also Agree With Scape, That The Inventory Pages Coulld Be Better With A Number Bar Or Something :3
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Oh yeh! Neopets had featured games where you got extra points for playing!!
I realize I keep referring to Neopets but it's a similar well-established system. XD
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"Users who liked this game also liked:"?
Like there's two helicopter games so maybe someone who likes that would like to try the other?
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Are you advertising the site at all?
I think that it would BOOM if you advertised.
I know that I was instantly addicted to it. :)
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I do advertise quite a bit, unfortunately it's just a very competitive market - flash games that is. I think I am going to tailor the site to be more of a "pet and collectibles" site so I can get all those people that flock to those types of sites. I think people dismiss the site for just another flash gaming site. Nothing will change on the site though, just more fun :). Kokaro is on several voting sites too:
http://www.kokaro.com/affiliates.php
Vote if you have some spare time.
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May I suggest something?
I have voted a couple of times, but I tend to forget the option is even there, plus I think it is easy to not realize that the voting page is even there, since it is buried over in the "other" menu.
Maybe just a "Have you voted today?" reminder on the home page or something would get you more votes. And a lot of sites have incentives for voting, you could do something like that. A small amount of gold for each vote, or maybe a chance at getting an item. Something like that.
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Definitely Vyra, those are some great ideas. Didn't know if that would just annoy people. I can do some testing/trying.
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Every time I see a game I want the username of the champion of that game to be displayed small in/underneath the game icon.
Anyone else think they want this? :/
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What's all this?
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Let's not make the item collector deku items so closely together? In fact, let's not repeat quest items from the item collector? :x
I'd prefer one set 8am-7pm then repeat 8pm-7am since I'd miss the late night / early morning ones anyway.
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Hints page is now up: http://www.kokaro.com/hints.php
Also, magic items are purdy lookin':
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Just completed this to-do:
After a score has been submitted that does not meet minimum score to be submitted, have a button for returning to game (and for guest score submission page)
There's also an extra incentive for guests to register too - it actually shows an item that they didn't get :)
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Just letting people know there has been some balancing changes going on lately. The biggest one is that I have removed the effect of Virtue items on high scores. Originally the more Virtue items you had you would get bonus points on top of your high scores you submit. I felt this added an unfair advantage to new players and was easily exploitable.
Each Virtue item now equals 25 extra points on your total ranking via Leaderboard (also effects Health Points). Which is a much more fair advantage that doesn't directly effect gameplay of the games on the site.
Stay tuned for more things :)
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Hmm, how much is 25 points worth on the leaderboard?
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Haha, I knew somebody would ask that. It's kind of arbitrary from the view of the players, but roughly speaking, that's about 15 items worth, or 5000-ish gold, but that's just current weights/values of stuff. I can say that it definitely is worth it to just collect them passively as that weight will never change, it will be 25 no matter what. The alternative effect on the Health Points will also make it worth it once that stuff is in for battling.
Maybe though, I should just make it percentage based, like each item will give you an +0.1% on top of your ranking.
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Did a lot tonight. 8)
ALL magic enchanted item effects are working and are in. Make sure to check out the Magic Items info page to see all the updates/balances/tweaks: http://www.kokaro.com/magicitems.php
Enchanter no longer takes steals money on magic enchantment; however, this makes enchanting a bit more rare. But remember, you can now find magic items in the wild just by playing games/getting items from NPCs.
Comments now show up newest first.
Hit Points now show a value based on your raw ranking number. It's not the true number, but you can now use it to see how close you are to other members. Also, Hit Points will effect Battling once it is in.
Fixed a bug that showed the price of Marketplace items different than final sale.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1s
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPmb0F00YPE
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Hey! Badass! A new item set!
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Should the number for each comment also be in reverse order? Just to avoid any confusion.
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Great idea, this has been done. +Praise.
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Excellent!
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Duke Nukem #10 avatar doesn't have a dropshadow.
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As you can see, there's now Avatars in the forums. Just reset your avatar like you normally would and it should appear. Hopefully this is another step to make them cooler :)
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Hey, cool.
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<-- Check the avatar. ;)
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It's fitting for me, shall we add Sesame Street for you? ^.^
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I would like that very much.
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Updates:
There is now a search bar located at the bottom of inventory-based pages like the Vendor House or the Enchanter. This will help you find items easier. A LOT EASIER. You no longer have to "view all items" to get the filtering you need.
There's also a new set added.
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i like the highest score that stays after the score resets, you could give that person a reduced coin amount for each time a person plays that game so instead of 10 maybe take it down to like 2 or 5 just so you still get rewarded for it
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even better idea, the person with the all-time high score could just get a flat reward everytime the high score gets reset like 1000 gold or something
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There are some people who join different sites just to get high scores. They don't necessarily stick to the site though so it wouldn't be worth it in that case to give them a bonus. Or those users might go inactive ... I wouldn't think it's a good idea.
But I would LOVE to be able to have the current champ name/avatar displayed beside the games images. I could easily see if I've been replaced on my favorite games and also give users some kind of kokaro "fame".
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shouldn't the current highscores be the all time highscore?
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Highest scores are now in! I will be publishing some new site feed notifications for this a bit later once more new highest scores come in.
shouldn't the current highscores be the all time highscore?
The systems are separated right now. Yes, I could just exported them all over, but where's the fun in that? This is a new system, so players can have some fun trying to set the NEW highest score of all time, even though, technically, it may not be :)
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Just a quick fix in the user control panel. You are now allowed to save fields as blank if you want to remove your social networking fields.
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The "Highest Score of All Time" thing seems to be working incorrectly. I think It's taking the most recently submitted score and using that. At least on some games.
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Couple new updates:
- There's now a personal site feed on the home page that displays any items attempted being sold to you. More will be added to this later.
- Some Marketplace balances.
- Some Leaderboard tweaks.
- Transmogrifier balance.
- Players can now recall the Marketplace stock.
- New avatars.
- New items.
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Can you add rules?
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Can you add rules?
What do you mean rules?
Like, do you mean, like hints on how to play on Kokaro, or do you mean more like, no cheating/exploiting, racism, etc.?
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The Question like cheating exploiting racism etc.
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The Question like cheating exploiting racism etc.
Well, to be honest, there is no concrete rules at this time. I usually just play it by ear. In general, don't be a dick. Don't do things if they are considered "wrong".
Don't cheat, don't exploit (a lot of people don't listen to this one), don't be racist, don't be a dick. I have no problem banning and or punishing players in some way if they choose to do "bad" things.
I will add it to my "to-do" to add a concrete rules page. Thanks!
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Some quick updates:
- Fixed some refreshing exploits.
- The "Surprise Bag" has been added to the Marketplace. Be careful with your gold. Although I got pretty lucky and got a level 5 rare right off the bat.
- Leaderboard balancing: most notably, badges are weighted more now while some other statistics have been reduced in effectiveness.
- The game Insurgo Remix has been fixed: http://www.kokaro.com/insurgoremix.php
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I've heard somebody got a Bok Choy from the Surprise Bag.
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I've looked at the To-do list the next thing will be The Thief by the way what will it do when you next update this site.
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I've looked at the To-do list the next thing will be The Thief by the way what will it do when you next update this site.
I don't exactly follow it all the time, but there's a good chance, yes.
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Added a couple more things tonight.
Some quick updates:
- Fixed some refreshing exploits.
- The "Surprise Bag" has been added to the Marketplace. Be careful with your gold. Although I got pretty lucky and got a level 5 rare right off the bat.
- Leaderboard balancing: most notably, badges are weighted more now while some other statistics have been reduced in effectiveness.
- The game Insurgo Remix has been fixed: http://www.kokaro.com/insurgoremix.php
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The Thief
The Laundromat
Rules Page
Pets
Disenchanter
Add New blah blah
Missing Doom 64 Castlevania Items
Make Drop Shadow More Subtle on avatars/items
Equipment Refinement
Battle System
PVP
Daily Wheel Game -like item slot machine
Ranking Icons
Adventure Challenge Mode
Video Game Trivia
Screenshot Game
Item Counts Off
Achievements
Alpha blah blah
Researcher NPC
Referral System
Story Made
Revamp Of Search Functions(don't use google)
What about making Name That Character From Video Games?
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All the things that will be added or some more ideas?
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What would the PVP be like that sounds kinda awesome but it will take awhile to be added.
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Would it be okay if buy a random avatar in the Costume Shop for 5000 or 10000.
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Looks like there will be ranking icons on this site but I will make a great plan for it but here's how it will work in the future someday but first do we have to start at Level 1 or a different Level when you reach level 100 you become STAR When you reach the best level Master that will be Level 1000 Everything i'm saying is true so don't complain about my comment and stuff so praise if you like it.
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You can now see all your medallions on your profile page by clicking the "View All" button. Button will only show if you have more than 28 medallions.
Fixed more saving bugs with the User Control Panel.
Game Badges are worth more "Leaderboard" points now.
The Rules page has now been added:
http://www.kokaro.com/rules.php - Read it and weep :)
There hasn't been much progress made on Kokaro in the last month or so, just due to other projects I am working on, but there should be a new item set coming up soon.
Also, keep in mind there's a lot of behind the scenes stuff that I work on that I don't announce since it's just bug fixing and server-related stuff.
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Is it okay if you lose your first account then could you make a backup account just in case?
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There's no way to lose your account. Even if you are banned, your items and account still remains in the system. There really should be no reason to keep two accounts, but again, having multiple accounts won't get you banned directly; however, if you are using many at a time, trying to scam or exploit, or doing some other naughty stuff, they could ALL be banned.
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- Added a new item set.
- Fixed magic item information page example.
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- Fixed a bug that would make it so the "404" page would come up if you went to multiple pages or refreshed the page too fast. I put this in to stop people exploiting the item stumble, but I set it up differently so it still stops it from happening, but doesn't give the 404 page.
- Item stumbling is now a bit more common.
- Added a new random event that would reset the Seeker of the Rare.
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Fixed a bug that allowed a 1% chance to fail on giving an item or avatar that was guaranteed to be given.
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- Fixed being able to post (or spam) links in the comments. Use the forums instead if you want people to check out links.
- Fixed a bug where you would submit the same comment twice if you commented, then played the game and submitted your score.
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Are you having any issues achieveing these? I do know quite a lot about Web Development if you need any advice/help.
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- Restored the website to most of its former glory (now that Ruffle exists - long live FLASH!).
- Removed Twitter/Facebook functionality and linking (nobody used this anyway).
- Recent topics on the home page have been reformatted to match the site feed better.
- The games page now shows how it is sorted by and which game numbers it is showing.
- The games page now shows 50 games at a time instead of 25.
There are still quite a few bugs around. The transition to upgrade the forums, flash games, and back-end server tech has not been an easy process.
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More stuffs:
- Improved and/or fixed the look of several elements on the site.
- Fixed several instances where magical items did not show their magical status.
- Magical items now sell for more in the Marketplace.
- You can now have up to 25 favourite games.
- You now can't favourite the same game twice.
- You can now sort games by low/high average playtimes.
- The top 50 high scores are now posted on the high score pages.
- The all-game high scores page now shows the time.
- Fixed registration not working correctly.
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Even more stuffs:
- Removed old affiliates (these are no longer a thing?).
- Removed the "Help" entry in the forums that did not function properly.
- Items will now load faster.
- Item sets will now be numbered within their own set, all distinguished with a symbol.
- Animated items will now be a bit less frenetic.
- Increased the chance of item drops from games.
- Reduced the chance of rarity 5 drops.
- Items now have a different style and have 3d card-like hover effects.
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Babe wake up, new patch notes just dropped:
- Fixed the contact and forgot password forms not sending emails.
- Added some new items that were missing from sets.
- There are now controls under each game that will mute them or enter fullscreen mode.
- Modified and normalized many games that did not give out enough rewards (or too much) using the power of DATA!
- Increased the maximum gold per game from 300 to 3000.
- Fixed some games not submitting the correct score.
- Fixed some games that were not tracking time spent properly.
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And then?
- The gold counter now displays more accurately after losing/gaining gold.
- Your placement is now displayed when submitting a score.
- Avatars now also feature a card-like aesthetic.
- Fixed game linking errors.
- Added a new item set (had to relearn this process).
- Added a new game (had to relearn this process).
- Added additional cheating detection/prevention.
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Text DUMP:
- Added two new games.
- Highest records of all time have been calculated (some older games didn't have records yet).
- Fixed incorrect badge count on some profiles.
- Avatars now feature a different, less generic look with more art from their respective games.
- Added some new avatars.
- The home page now features a new listing of newest highscores set and avatars.
- Fixed the look/feel of collection collector item returns.
- Games image boxes have a different look so they don't look like avatars/items as much.
- Removed old unsold items to users in vendor house.
- "Restart Game" button has been moved and now reloads the game instead of the page.
- Daily gold games now give double the gold instead of a flat "15" gold.
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Talking to the void like it's my friend:
- Added a daily login bonus.
- The profile fields and linking have been modernized. Goodbye, MySpace :(
- Your personal highest score is now recorded/displayed and does not get reset.
- Fixed item slot machine showing blank items sometimes.
- The "Newest Highscores Set" on the home page will now only show one highscore per user.
- Improved delivery of updates on site so users don't see broken layout/changes.
- Added a new game.
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Is this thing on?
- The item in Item Guess is now saved to stop exploiting.
- There's now more separation when doing actions in the village, making it easier to see the results.
- Added the Blackmarket to the village.
- You can now reset the lottery if the last entry was more than 5 days ago.
- Player equipment is now shown in their profile.
- Added a new item set.
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- Re-balanced item collector based on most common item names.
- Added more valid equipment types and corrected many incorrect items being equippable.
- There is are now caps on the magic effects of items.
- Messages that include effects of magical items now reveal your total percentages.
- Fixed certain places where item amount and ranks were not recalculated.
- Added Avatar Guess village game.
- Added a new game.
- Added more avatars.
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MOAR
- Fixed item pagination showing the next page in instances where there was no next page of items.
- The vendor house now sorts items sold to others at the bottom of the list.
- Added the Treasure Room to the village which uses keys to open deterministic or "themed" chests.
- When submitting a score, it now lets you know who got the bonus 10 gold for being the champion.
- Player's latest highscores are now shown in player profiles.
- Fixed some places where magic status was not showing properly.
- Slightly increased the chances of getting a magical item when dropped/given normally.
- Added ultra-rare foil items that count towards a new leaderboard statistic.
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Some new stuffs:
- Added the ability to gamble 10 or 25 times in a row in the Item Slot Machine.
- Upgraded the Ruffle player on the site.
- Added a compatibility section for games that are not fully supported by Ruffle. Let me know if you find any that have issues!
- Fixed not being able to comment on games.
- Fixed not being able to post in the forums.
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Okay, 3 things I would change on here for anyone who plays on here in the future:
1. Prevent magic and foil items from going into the collection collector by default. Once you have so many items it's hard to keep track, and you can't see what items go into it when you have just the singular button to click. i.e. Magic and foil items should not count as part of the sets.
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Also in the collection collector, having an accessible list of items in each set would be pretty nice. I find myself checking old forum posts from 10+ years ago that have lists arranged but having it all in one place would be nice.
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Broken Games that either don't submit scores or don't work at all that I know of:
Snake (3D version, submission error)
Box of Chocolates (Submission error)
Kangaroo Jack (Submission error)
Minotaur (Submission error)
Word Pads (Unplayable)
Mouse Maze (Breaks at level 5)
Frogger (Submission error)
Freakshow Pinball (Submission error)
Asteroids (Submission error)
Games that have a white screen but work when you right click and hit play (like Beat Bubbles):
Jungle Monkeys
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