| Re: Gazelle-Fit -- Hannes Frischat | |||
| Posted by Hannes Frischat ® , Tue, Jan 18, 2000, 07:45:53 | Top | Forum | |
In practicing music with metronome it turned out to be most effective to increase the speed in ramps.
That means that I begin with fairly low speed, eg. with 240 notes per minute, then increase it slowly to 400, where they become unexact.
Then I go back to 280 and manage to go to 440. Starting with 320 gives a maximum of 500 and so on. This will saturate at about maximum 640 notes per minute in my personal case. Beginning with slow speed again and again is essential to destress, and also it is necessary to increase the speed very slowly.
This principle is, intentionally or not, perfectly copied by the giraffe game because the amount of letters seen at the same time increases from 123-level to 123-level (not the "beginner"-"intermediate"-"expert" level, let us call them BIE-level, but the 1-2-3 levels within one game are meant). Maybe this is also true to other tetris style games, and would explain the stunning abilities kids develop with these games.
One way to transfer this principle to the new "Fitaly-whole-word-game" would be to increase the length of the words.
Given a constant falling speed at one BIE-level the game would begin with single characters. The second 123-level would consist of two-letter words, either picked randomly out of a text, or truncated from the beginning of longer words (which could also be randomly picked). Then 3-letter words and so on.
The alternative to achieve the ramp would be to increase the speed from one 123-level to the next. But the acceleration should be done very smoothly and due to the pixeliation of the screen I do not know if so many different speeds are possible. Also I do not know whether the programming effort would be very high and the program itself very slow.
Another point is that with words of very differing length within one level the maximum ability of the player could be reached very soon. This would decrease the training effect. Perhaps at least define a narrow range of permitted word lengths per 123-level.
Just wanting to share my effortly gained experience with you.
Regards
Hannes
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