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Hooray! I'm so glad that's happening!

i just got a score that would put me into the top ten (1,456, i think it was? can't remember) a couple minutes ago and i sent the score in. i haven't received the high score achievement yet but I'll try waiting it out incase it triggers. my last high score was 1,078 (i'm currently 15th place)

[edit]nevermind, just got it, yay!

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it did! i edited my recent post. ty <3<3

some odd issues reported here: Spectrail controls wobbly? Different movement than inputs?

quoting the relevant part of my response:

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- due to the way the trail moves in this game, you have always been able to hit your own tail even with a single orb; however, the hitboxes in the remade game seem bigger than before, so it&;s more likely to happen now than it used to.</p>
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<li>the trail orbs move at a very, very slightly different rate than the character. this only became noticeable after i had amassed a fairly large trail, likely exacerbated whenever i would rapidly alternate a vertical and horizontal input (e.g. up-left-up-left-up-left). after a certain point, their spacing stopped being uniform; instead, some clustered together while others trailed further behind. additionally, because they were taking the horizontal and vertical movement at different rates, the trail began to bow in certain places, becoming slightly curved and slanting off the X and Y axes. this is likely the biggest contributor to the &quot;wobbly&quot; controls you&;re describing.</li>
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<p>UPDATE: just tested it again and this time i encountered a different issue... i teleported, as explained in the screenshot below.</p>
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Character and trail don't follow the same path. Orbs end up bunching up/spacing out and drifting off the grid. This leads to times where I run into myself even though I made what should have been a safe path. (e.g. a U-turn: traveling right, move up, move left; moving like stairs: up, right, up, right)

Thank you for the updates! I played it a few times and haven't noticed getting knocked off course or anything.

I did encounter a few instances where the nightmare rock still popped up directly in front of me. In easy or even medium mode they might have been avoidable, but in hard I didn't have enough time to react to get out of the way in time. (I even got a rock spawn in front of me right after collecting a rainbow prism, so that stung a little.) Would it be possible to make that distance a little further?

I also was wondering if it would be possible to adjust the distance by difficult level. For example, easy might have a "no spawn" radius of 10px, while hard might be 30px.

can you check please the spawning rate of the rainbow? I think I've never saw one since the first day of the game..

OK, I played it a bit now and is it just me or hard mode feels a lot faster now? The "push" glitch doesn't seems to happen anymore. Hurray. And the trail is closer together now, which is good.

The game is still missing the "Games played today: 0 out of 10" message in its page that all other games have.

Thanks for checking :)

Hey Bug-u, is there any way you could add the option of using WASD or something similar for controls in Spectrail? It's been fun to play again, but my keyboard squashes the up and down arrow keys so that they end up being half the size of the left and right arrow keys and smashed into the same row, and this obviously makes gameplay a little more difficult. It'd be great to have some alternative control schemes for players with this same issue.

To be fair, if I turn off num lock I can use the arrow keys on my number pad, but they're situated on the 8, 4, 6, and 2 keys, so the fact that there's an entire (useless) key in the way (the 5 key) makes it equally as awkward. 😅 Plus, if I remember correctly, I think there's a lot of laptop keyboards that have the squashed arrow keys like mine, but that don't have dedicated number pads?

Anyway, thank you! It's been fun and weirdly nostalgic playing a flash-like game again :) (And if anything I said didn't make sense please let me know! I've been having brain-zaps lately, so concentration and wording can be really difficult ;w; )

Woot! runs to play

I played today and I got one rainbow, so it is okay!

awesome thanks! :D

you're just unlucky ahha