This is the funniest one yet.
I thought it would be terrible and that by combining in Doge that it would sully the whole thing and be the straw that broke the camel's back. But really, it adds something to the game that wasn't there.
There's a new sense of whimsy that wasn't there in the original, and the messages when combining Doges adds a sense of accomplishment.
I was on the wroc_love.rb conference this weekend and either people were playing 2048 on their notebooks or hacking on it - with other board layouts, other numbers or similar mods.
I did better than I usually do. At first I thought the lack of a sense of what the numbers were would be a hinderance, but it seems to have helped this time (sample size n=1).
I'm a 31yr old with a decade younger sister who introduced me to doge and I'm embarrassed to say that I did better in this version than in the ones with numbers. Much sadness
I have not laughed out loud at a HN post in quite a while. Thank you for that. When I scored the first time and it a said "such player", I laughed quite loudly in my quiet office.
AFAICT, the "derp" dog means you won, aka reached 2048. With a score that high, you probably had a derp, although you may not have. My personal best is over 53000 on the conventional game, well past 4096. I highly recommend not letting yourself get sucked in any deeper, though. With a score of 12440 you probably have a solid strategy, so it's probably more luck that lets me get as high as I did.
I got a derp on this game at 9000. So derp (the top of the table), must mean "1024". In which case I take back my comment. It's possible to reach 1024 with a strategy only slightly little better than random shuffling.
Has anybody combined two derps to see what happens when the list & images run out?
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Such fun. Very success.
http://doge2048.com/js/application.js
"So hot right now" is some Paris Hilton catchphrase, and way too grammatical.
Your intensifier words fit too appropriately to their objects:
"Such matching" should be "Many matching"
"So good" is correct English. "Much good" would be better doge-ese.
Anyway, see here: http://the-toast.net/2014/02/06/linguist-explains-grammar-do...
Edit: tried again, seems to be working now, neat! Nexus 5, chrome if it helps at all.
Has anybody combined two derps to see what happens when the list & images run out?