Flippy Bit

I cannot stop thinking about this game. I'm not a gamer really, I'm definitely no coder or programmer or computer person in any way. I love that there are no rules or settings available. You just figure it out.

I love that game. Please, make the difficulty increase more slowly, and fix the sensitivity "bug", when you swipe a nibble, it only flips the last three bits, and I give it 5 stars.

I got up to 35 and I am 11...I think I did pretty well

I recommend use on tablet or desktop. Or Bluetooth keyboard. I wonder if a landscape friendly version could be made.

This game allows me to put what i learn to use and reinforce the akill in a fun way.

I can't stop grinning at the absurdity of a weapon system that requires bitwise programming to fire. I was surprised at how far I got. To get a higher score swipe adjacent bits instead of tapping each one. E.g.: for FE just swipe all bits from left to right, it will fire before you get to the one bit.

The problem is, that the missiles are just too slow. When I manage to enter the binary. The alien is already half a screen away from destroying my base and while the missiles gather, the alien manages to demolish my arsenal.

The fkin animations make getting scores exponentially harder after 20 points because of the slow shooting animation. Scale it up with the speed of the aliens so it doesn't feel so clunky.

I like the game but it seems as if the time it takes from getting the bits correct to the missiles coming together and shooting is constant. If this is true, then it actually increases the game difficulty much quicker than it seems. Also, that would define a definite ending to the game (where the enemy falls faster than the time it takes for the missiles to fire). So, could you please make this time proportional to the speed of the enemies?

I think it gets unreasonably fast in the mid 20s. Even of you get it before the bomb lands you still lose.

But really hard to play

Simple but helpful. Helped me memorize hexadecimal in a fun way for my Digital Design Class

But I think everything will be easier if you'll add a tutorial

Having a hexadecimal digit to four bits chart was necessary for me to start off, but now I'm able to do it all from memory [though B and D do give me some confusion.]

Educationally it would make sense to display hexes on the tiny computer at all times even during and after explosions so you can learn from mistakes. Also the pace gets too frantic after a while, better to have a slow endurance test than an impossible race. If the aliens get too low even correct hexes result in explosions, not a great learning outcome. All in all very good though but please improve it. A high score reset would be handy too...

fun, educational game, great for keeping a nerd occupied. also useful for studying for those tricky science bowl questions that ask you to convert between bin and hex....my one qualm is that past about 24~25, it stops being feasible (time-wise) to enter numbers that require turning on more than 2 or so binary bits : (

Like other reviews have said around the 24-26 mark things just get unfair-seeming. There's a difference between a game over where I know I made a mistake and a game over where it's just like "Oh, that sucked" and they seem like the latter most of the time. Some rebalancing would be great because you just run into it like a wall every time.

It is impossible to get a score outside of the mid twenties. It takes too long for the rockets to fire.

This is an amusing way to push a familiarity between hexadecimal and binary notation. As far as a percentage of children appearing to be skilled in this area, I think that most simply notice a pattern rather than do the math. Fundamentally, this isn't much different than grouping similarly colored or shaped objects. While unrelated to the intent of this game, I think that including a 10-key pad to punch in the base-10 value (a launch confirmation?) after setting the bits would enhance the experiment.

Absolutely needs a mute option. Would be more fun with a changeable difficulty in same options menu.

Brilliant. Plays a bit faster than the desktop version.

Took me a minute to remember hex but once it clicked I was hooked.

Amazing

Wow! Cool concept.

At first I was totally confused, I couldn't figure out how the numbers and letters work together and felt like googling for a Wikipedia about hexadecimals. However, as I continued playing this game I slowly but surely managed to grasp the concept somehow. This proves that there's endless possibilities to things you can teach people about entirely through a game.

Really fun game, and I feel like I can kid myself that I'm improving a useful skill too :p. Would love to see more game modes e.g Decimal to binary, or octal. EDIT: my highscore is now 26, and it seems impossible to beat, as the aliens come down the screen almost faster than the rockets fire. Could be improved if the number of aliens increased rather than just their speed.

As others have stated, it's all but impossible to do better than 25pts.

Took a little while, but soon I was converting hex to binary with ease! 5 stars.. Or was that 00000101 stars?

A seriously addictive way to improve your instinctual understanding of hex.

High score: 27

Simple and effective!

Addictive and fun, and then it's educational as well.

Based on a good idea, but the implementation has some serious flaws. Still fun though, and a great way to practice hexadecimal and binary.

Love the flapping and the numbers, it brings back memories of base64

Cute. Fun. Does what it says on the tin.

yes

It takes time, dedication and some luck but you can get more than 25 points.

Straightforward gameplay with fitting graphics. Good amusement while training reaction time and quick calculations.

At first I was stumped to see my girl simply playing FlippyBit while I couldn't hit even one alien! But after a while I was starting to understand the mechanic and why she seems to know what missiles to launch :)

It is incredibly annoying when you have the missiles to hit an alien, and they move towards it, but the alien hits you before they hit. You feel like you deserved that number but the game messed it up.