I wasn't able to get the rooms to load with Firefox, but was able with EI.

I don't seem to be able to play, most of the room links don't do anything when I click them. The 3 rooms featured on the home page seem to come up but just sit on "loading" forever.

I know it takes a lot to get an overhaul like this off the ground at first so no worries, but in case it's helpful I'm using Chrome 26.0.1410.65 on a Mac with OS X Lion (10.7).

Thanks for all the hard work!

~Rill

I sure do notice something different!
I, too, am unable to get into a room. Goes to the page, but just says Loading. I did clear my cache, didn't help.

adam - i love cobra dragon games. and as you can verify, i play all the time. but i don't like this screen so much. and it has been very hard to get on. now i'm worried i won't be able to play as much.

Thank you for all of your hard work into creating the new site. However, the only thing that I have a slight problem with is the green background. For me, it is really hard on my eyes and the transition. Is there a way that it could be a neutral background? Again, thanks for everything! It is much appreciated.

Nothing will load here. Cleared history and cache in firefox,,now using IE and same story,,Jes keeps saying "loading" but it never does..lol. Played this afternoon with no problem on firefox, same as usual. Ive reset password also,to no avail....

Hi Adam,
So far I like the new format. I can see the big letters.

I would like to see a 7X7 room where the minimum word length is 5 letters long rather than six letters. Or can you do this in a private room?

The most visible combination of colors for prolonged reading/writing is lime green on purple or vice versa. I use a writing program and it allows for any combination of colors for writing. The above color combination is most recommended for its ease on the eyes. Sometimes I write 10,000 words at a sitting and my eyes never tire.

I would love to see a vaster difference between the colors of Egg and Class C. So maybe White/Egg, Beige/Hatching, Brown/Class D, and Purple or Lavender/Class C.

I would love to see a bigger area for words and maybe a darker green as the lighter green is difficult to read. I do like the blue highlighted words which are mine. And I love the blue names in the chat.

The chat lags bad.

The board lags worse, especially if I type fast.

I love the premium account options. I was going to suggest it.

Thank you.

i cant get into the rooms (they dont load).

I think I reset my password, but to no avail

Impressed by the huge amount of changes - the site got a complete overhaul!

At the risk of sounding ungrateful, there are a few problems:

Major problem: Word inputting seems to have been slowed down - I am typing faster than it is being recognized, meaning 's' often gets cut off from one entry and put at the start of the next (or any other starting/ending letter) which makes it extremely difficult to play. Not sure what change is causing this, but it's a major nuisance.

Minor things: I miss having different colors for getting a word and getting a word first - it's extremely useful at the start of rounds to figure out which patterns I should play and which ones I should leave for later.

- The boards are massive compared to the rest of the text. Letter highlighting is a kinda unnecessary change, and is distracting more than anything else (although I am sure some people prefer having it)

-Did you put in ads? I know it's one of the premium features, and I'm running adblock so I don't see any - but even when I disabled adblock, I saw no ads on the site. Obviously not a complaint on my end, just something that would matter to you.

I like the addition of achievements, and the site looks a lot nicer than it did before! Just a few gameplay changes to make it run a bit smoother and it'll be set!

please tell me how to reset my password. I cannot get in with my name and password that I have been using for a number of years. If I try to make a new name and use the same email address, it says that has been taken.

I sent you an email concerning this and the name and password I would like to use. Please reply. Pinky

Hi Adam,

Are you going to add back the note at the bottom of the screen that tells you
how many more words you need to break even? I really miss that. The game is less fun to play without it.

I also miss how words used to appear in a different color if you got them first. It was nice to be able to scan the list after a game and see that.

One more little complaint. Its nice to have a warning when you've misspelled a word, but the "uh-oh" voice is kind of high-pitched and annoying.

Overall, the new design is very nice.

Please change the color scheme... way too much green, especially the green on green game board. I love everything else you did tho.

adam - every time i leave the room i lose point. even if i didn't play. sometimes when i go into the game it's already started, so i leave. and then ding, its more than 10 points. what are the rules now? this is bad.

I am unable to load rooms on a desktop with Windows XP/Internet Explorer 8. However, I am able to load rooms and play on a laptop with Windows 8/Internet Explorer 10. I'd prefer to play on my desktop. Is there any way to make the game playable for us dinosaurs?

I just want to make sure you've read my post here adam.

http://games.cobradragon.com/view/forum/mode/viewpost/postid/1139#.UX9AzXilky4

I'd like to know what you think.


In addition, I see that the mousing still isn't as good as it was in tangle word. I suggest to make the area which inputs a letter an octagon or diamond as opposed to the outline of the letter itself.

Also, the game doesn't load fast enough for fast typists after hitting submit. It doesn't catch the first few letters.

First, I want to thank you for creating this site and do truly appreciate all the effort you must put into it. However, I have to admit I'm not a fan of the recent change but it's not a big issue for me. The biggest problem I have, is it keeps cutting off the first letter of the majority of the words I type. I played for 20 minutes today and on each game I probably only got half the words I typed accepted. I lost a significant amount of points, and my placement for each game was far lower than usual for me. It would be great if this could be fixed.

And a PS...I did disable the letter highlighting and it still cut off my words.

Hi Adam, This is pretty neat - the green board and design. I'm wondering if you could please make the board a bit smaller (in proportion to what is there) so that we can see the entire board easily? I heard another player saying that when she shrunk the board to a good size, the chat was too small.
Also, the word list on the left has green words. I'm finding them difficult to read as they are very light. Could you please make them bolder or a stronger colour?
And the last thing - the number of words left chart - it's pretty spread out when the board is larger (to see the chat well) and for me anyway, not easy to see the entire thing at one glance. This could be done easily on your last page you designed. It's just a bit spread out.
Of course, my issues could be because I have cataracts... but so will others.
Thanks for asking for comments and I think what you are doing is great.
JO (mojo)

Adam - also, I've been reading other people's comments and I see several are talking about the color green. Personally I'm fine with it, but I'm told that a decent percentage of the population is partially or totally color blind. I used to date a guy who had to focus carefully on traffic lights to figure out if they were green or red (top or bottom light, he said is how he could tell). Not sure if that is why people don't like the green, but you might consider what they are saying from that perspective too.

Adam,

I use a laptop - always have. I love it, but laptops don't always have very big screens, and mine is no exception. The larger board size means I can't see the board and the countdown clock at the same time. Could you please add a feature so we can reduce the size of what we see back to what it used to look like? Right now it's as if you've made my screen into a magnifying glass and I can only see one part of the game area at a time.

Thank you!

Always grateful for all that you do for us players!

Julia (Tannline)

As someone who can see himself being too addicted on the gigantic and jumbo boards, i'd like to request 7 minutes and 5 minutes respectively instead of 4 on each.

4 minutes is simply not enough time for boards as large as those.

I'd also like a 7 letter minimum room as well for 8x8, please.

Adam, I wasn't able to get into the new format for a few days, but now I can. Mousing never worked for me before, but works great now. I'm still faster at typing though.

I like the most of the changes, but here are a few little things that would be nice to fix ...
1. Word List -- at the end of the game, please scroll up to the top of the list so we can see the longest words and what our best words were. Right now, it's leaving the scroller at whatever location it was when we finished the game.
2. Countdown -- you have gained/lost xx points, you need xx points to stay even .... this used to be located below the letter board but is now in small print under the word list. I prefer it under the letter board where it was in my line of sight while playing (i don't usually look to the word list while playing).
3. Chat - we miss a lot of the chat because everything scrolls by quickly. I liked the old format where the comments started right after the person'sr name (on the same line, not on the line after).
4. Color jackets ... we used to see the categories (and scores needed) whenever we were playing ... can you put these back on the page with the game boards?

Thanks so much! - ellemay

Hi Adam
First of, congrats on the new site

Now I don't know if it's just me, but it seems that the new platform cannot cope with fast-ish typing..... I've just tried playing a few rounds (I always play in the 30 sec room), and every time I hit enter, and start typing a new words straight away, my words appear in the game box incorrectly, having been "cut" wrongly.....

Now don't get me wrong, I do lots of typos... But I have noticed that if I go a lot slower, it works fine..... So, could you check that please? I obviously can't play in 30 sec if the game can't take words in at a fast pace... which would be a real shame as this is all I play on here
Many thanks Adam
varumba x

I really miss having my running total showing under the board.

half of the words i enter for game and half of the text i enter in chat do not show up when i hit enter, forcing me to retype them, sometimes over and over and over again. this was happening even in the old format, but i thought i raise the issue now that you're working on everything.

Guest7030 has been awarded the Master of Four Letters Award!
Guest7030 has been awarded the PalindromemordnilaP Pro Award!
Guest7030 has been awarded the Master of Six Letters Award!
Guest7030 has been awarded the Longest Word Award!

Why are these pop-ups happening. It is very distracting during the game.

just found another one Guest7030 has been awarded the Seven Dirty Words Savant Award! For the word tit which is defined in the dictionary as "a bird." Are these words "dirty" too - prick, screw, ass . . .

I pricked my thumb with the screw when I fell of the ass I was riding?

Really.

i promise i will pay for this game when you get it right! Ive always said that!

I have a problem with the sounds. Every time I enter the room (I play only in the 6x6 5's room) I have all the sound effects, even though "round ding" is ON and "validation sounds" is OFF. No matter what combination of turning these on and off, I have either all or nothing. I want the "round ding" on because I often do other things between games (see below) and if I don't hear the "ding" I miss the start of the next round.

Time between games has been increased from 1 to 1.5 minutes. The only reason I can think of for this is to allow time for more chat. Most of the time when I'm playing there's hardly any chat at all, so this just means having more time to sit and look at an inactive screen - or try to do other things. IMO most of us are here for the games, not to socialize.

I am unhappy with the new screen design. When I adjust my screen so that the board is a comfortable size the fonts of the screen are too small and there's lots of empty space around the board. I'd also like to see the size of the chat box increased.

adam - can you please explain the penalty for leaving the game? thanks

Adam,
I wandered around a few of the new rooms to see what they were like. I just wanted to watch for a bit. I lost points when I left the room.

I work hard for my points.

There is something strange going on in the 6X6, 5 letter limit room. It does not allow for 5 letter words. I went in and checked the last words entered on the board and there are no 5 letter words only 6 letter words and above.

Adam,

I don't know if this is affecting other people, but I find the new colours almost impossible to use. I can only play two or three rounds now -- the visual strain is too uncomfortable to stay any longer.

I'm in my sixties so my vision isn't perfect, but I don't generally have trouble with most websites. But this has made me virtually stop playing Serpentine.

Nice job. My only comments would be that the text size relative to the board is all very small - I have to blow the page up a lot to comfortably see the running score (i.e., number of points I need to break even) as well as the words I'm typing, which makes the board overlarge. The running score could also be better situated; it's a little off to the side.

90 seconds between rounds is far too long for me - a minute was already long. If I need a break I can always just skip a round, so the intervals don't really have a purpose that I can discern, other than forcing me to wait!

Also, I hope you had permission to list the full names of those who've donated in the announcement? For a pseudonym-based environment, it seemed a little jarring to see a player's real name

adam - i've tested it, and regardless of status in the game, every time i leave i lose 10 points. have you checked this or is this a new rule?

is there any chance you can make an 8x8 game, 6 or 7 letter minimum, don't care, that runs for 15 minutes?

also, when there are over 150 or so words in a board, not all of the words show up at the end. only the first 150 of all from largest to smallest. could you please show all words? thanks