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muzny / tiletothetop

Repo for web app based vocabulary game.
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Timer #26

Closed muzny closed 11 years ago

muzny commented 11 years ago

Add a timer and update the scoring function so that it takes into account the amount of time the user took to play the round.

rowanwh commented 11 years ago

How do we want the timer to interact with the score? Currently it says that there is a time bonus to score -- if that's the case, what is the timer counting down from? Or are we going to subtract from the base score based on time elapsed?

muzny commented 11 years ago

I think that it could go two basic ways: 1) Bonus x for being under y seconds elapsed 2) Penalty x for being over y seconds elapsed

I would personally lean toward bonus, because of it being more of a carrot than a stick type thing.

rowanwh commented 11 years ago

Alright timer code is pushed. It uses the bonus method, with an arbitrary time cutoff.

muzny commented 11 years ago

I'm going to close this issue now, we can re-open it if somebody wants to change it.