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Tutorial incorrect on long vs short word battles #286

Closed bcspragu closed 4 hours ago

bcspragu commented 4 hours ago

Hi there!

Big Truncate fan, am checking out the codebase in hopes of adding a pluggable AI system to it. The tutorial at HEAD (e.g. not the version live on truncate.town) is incorrect:

Screenshot 2024-11-15 at 13-39-11 Truncate A word-based strategy game

Screenshot 2024-11-15 at 13-39-26 Truncate A word-based strategy game

The live version uses the words ENORMOUS and PUNY, which work as expected, but in the latest tutorial, your word (LARGE) actually gets destroyed because it's only one letter long than the shorter word (TINY).

If this is part of some larger game change (e.g. changing battle rules), feel free to ignore me! (Though shortening the length advantage to one would change the game pretty substantially)

EDIT: Looking at the copy on the next tutorial ("Defender's Advantage"), maybe the end goal is to change the length advantage to one.

bcspragu commented 4 hours ago

Yeah, closing this out as the end state is definitely "one letter longer wins a battle", codebase is just in an intermediate state, just saw https://github.com/TruncateGame/Truncate/issues/281