June 24, 2013

Fix Your Window

Click to try out the program!
In my original Smash It! program, I had a message that said, "Want me to fix it? Ask in Tips & Feedback!" I didn't want it to automatically fix itself, because that wouldn't be true to life. When you break a window, you live with the consequences.

Well, a lot of users wanted me to fix the window. One of the users figured out how to fix it himself, and started telling everybody how to do it. I didn't like that; it totally ruined the point of my program. Fixing a window shouldn't be easy. So I modified my code, and his solution was outdated.

He found a new method for fixing the windows. At first he didn't want to tell me about it, for fear I would circumvent, but finally he decided I wouldn't be able to. Laughing with pleasure, he wrote a fix-it program that used the method to fix windows, and started telling everybody about it.

I didn't like that. So I came up with a way to make his program stop working. I set things up using HTML5 storage so that his program worked great... for him, at least. For everybody else, it was useless. He didn't think of fixing it, because whenever he tested it, it worked. In fact, he happily talked about how good he was at programming. I just played along; ignorance is bliss.

I told him about it the next day. It's no fun to fool someone if they never know they were fooled.

Anyway, other users were writing fix-it programs, too. I decided it was time for me to write a decent one - a fix-it program that was guarantied to work. I didn't want it to ruin the point of my original program, so I created some virtual money; you could pay 30 virtual dollars to fix the window. My program made it to the top of the hot list; it was as popular as the original program.


And here it is. The official window fixer. If you run out of money, that same programmer wrote another program to give you virtual money; check the comments for a link.

To break the window, go HERE.

Fix Your Window

4 comments:

  1. Here's the link to the money-making program. It was written by the same programmer that wrote the first fix-it program. I don't mind the program, because you have to work for your money.

    Click HERE for the program.

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  2. Never mind. The programmer that designed the money-maker changed it so that, instead of giving money, it would cause my fixer program to fail.

    After that, either a moderator banned his program or the programmer deleted it. Either way, it's gone.

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  3. I'm getting an Oh Noes!
    "Cannot read property 'y' of undefined"

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    1. inbox.outbox.upbox wrote a program that messed with my localStorage. So anybody who used his program will get that error. Try clearing your cookies; that should solve the problem.

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