If you're using Chrome or Firefox (not sure about other browsers) you can right-click on the tab you're playing Spectrail in and either "mute site" (Chrome) or "mute tab" (Firefox). Hopefully the mute button gets re-added to the game but for now you guys could try muting the site or tab temporarily to mute the game. ^^
the movement speed is way too slow imo. the 'hard' speed is about what i remember 'easy' being in the original. all the speeds should be about 1.5 - 2 times faster i think.
also idk if there's anything to be done about this, but i like to zoom the page in when i play spectrail because the game itself is so tiny; the problem is, this sometimes messes up the detection on the buttons. clicking on them only activates them some of the time, while other times i have to click somewhere besides where the button actually is.
screenshots

in the first image, i am hovering my cursor over the 'instructions' button and it is activating correctly. however...

in the second image, i had to hover my cursor a bit above the play button to activate it, just below the parallix's rear paw.
using chrome v 76.0.3809.100 on a macbook running macOS high sierra v 10.13.6 if that's at all relevant, but i doubt it. i assume the solution is to just... play the game at its intended size lmao.
aside from that, the only other issue i'm having is the lack of new color blobs after a certain point, which you already know about.
A gem appeared off screen so I was unable to progress. I took a screenshot if you want it. I think it's a game mechanics issue not a browser issue, but I can provide that info if you want.
This happened 4 times in about 20 games.
Okay so.. I added in that sound toggle button I totally forgot about. It's in the bottom right of the title screen :)
I've also made a tweak to the code that spawn blobs to hopefully prevent that glitch of them spawning out-of-bounds. Please let me know if you still notice them spawning in impossible places (after time of me posting this) I have been playing it but I feel like it's just my luck that it hasn't happened to me yet even though I'm trying to debug it >_<
If the blobs spawn in wrong places again, could you please let me know which difficulty you were playing on when it happens?
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It still doesn't load on the lastest Firefox. Stuck on 100% load, for some reason.
Another thing I thought of, would it be possible to add the "Games played today: 0 out of 10" or out of 5 or however many it is to the top of the game page, like most of the other games have now?
Also I just played a bit more and haven't experienced the blob not appearing glitch anymore.
Just fixed the Firefox issue - Enjoy!
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ok another thing i've noticed is that the hitboxes on the smoke clouds and the trail seem too large. i could be a good 5 pixels away from a smoke cloud and still die; this makes getting blobs that spawn very close to them essentially impossible to get.
When you had the problem with the music not repeating - you said that was on your phone with chrome right? Could I ask if you're using Android or iPhone (or something else?) and what version you're using?
Has anyone else experienced problems with the music not looping, while I'm investigating this? And if you have, could you please be as specific as you can about your operating system, browser and device <3
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OK, playing it on firefox now.
-Music won't loop. Operating system: Windows 10. Browser is up-to-date firefox.
-I got this when I sent a score on easy mode.
You have been awarded 348 sP! You have played 1 / 10 times today.
Oh lol you got an achievement. Fix incoming!
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Another bug. Sometimes, seemingly at random, when I grab a blob, my character will get "pushed" to the side. Is this an intended feature?
Also the game failed to send a 502 score I got. I want to believe it was because I'm using mobile phone internet, but still.
spectrail is stuck on "loading: 100%" for safari on my laptop (os high sierra 10.13.6 / safari 12.1.2) and on my phone (ios 12.4 / safari 12).
edit w extra deets
When you say the game failed to send score, what error message did it give you exactly?
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I got the "this score has already been sent" message. I got a 1100+ score now and could send it without problems tho. Maybe it was me mashing the "send score" button too quickly?
As for the "push" glitch: At the moment it only happens on firefox. Sometimes the character slows down or gets pushed off the side.
Could you please follow the following steps: Open the developer console in Safari: Develop > Show Error Console menu item (Option-Cmd-C) Refresh Spectrail. When it gets to 100% and hangs there, could you let me know what the error console says?
Thank you!
Firefox on mobile, or Firefox on computer, or both?
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Firefox on computer. Windows 10, Firefox 68.0.1 (64-bit)
Not sure if you missed this. I use Chrome, Version 75.0.3770.142 (Official Build) (64-bit), Windows 10. PC
yeah I'm using chrome on my android phone.. I honestly don't know very well where to look for what android version I'm using, the only thing I can find says it's android version 9... is that a thing, are they just numbered like that or do I need to look somewhere else?
also it works on firefox now and I tried out the music toggle button and it works for turning it off, but it doesn't turn back on lol, is that intended?
also also when I played it on firefox I died because I made too sharp a u-turn somehow and apparently ran into my tail just because I went up one square on the grid and then immediately turned back to where I came from? is that supposed to happen?
[edit] also sometimes the blobs still spawn half on top of one of those black rock things so it's very hard to get it without dying (just happened when I played difficulty hard)
I honestly don't recall either, but I think that's reasonable either way, so I will change it to only move when you hit a key
I was a little preoccupied working on the more major fixes xD
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