A Gaming Diary
Dungeon Scroll (iPhone)
I did play through this game again last night. I meant to play a few levels, but it wouldn’t let go until I’d completed it again. Since last checking the high score board, I’d fallen down from fourth place to tenth.
What I really want to know is, how did Mr. Youallsuck get so many points up at the top of the leaderboard there? That’s an awful lot more than anybody else has got so far.
Anyway, I said it yesterday, I’ll say it again today: this is one of the best ways to spend 59p that you’ll find on the App Store or anywhere else. Even when it goes up £1.19, as seems to be the plan, it will be well worth your money.
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about 2 years ago
About the #1 score – Yeah, he sort of cheated using an anagram finder.
This is one of the reasons I include the view game details option. (if you click the little information icon, you can see everything about his game, including the longer words he made)
It actually IS possible to get that high of a score without "cheating" – by hoarding powerful letters and using them together. (stacking multipliers is really the second level of the game strategy for score)
But, in his case, he did it with 60 (mostly uncommon) eight letter words, and his "strongest word" point-wise is weak, so that's the give away.
Generally I just let the high scores stay and people can sort of figure out which ones are legit and not. If I banned them using an algo it would eventually get much harder to tell so not much point I guess.
This is one of the reasons I use a "only show the scores made in the last week" scoreboard, so the cheat scores don't stick around too long.
-Seth (developer of Dungeon Scroll)