We have released the public beta of our new game Action Solitaire.

You can read all about it and download at http://www.actionsol.com.

I'm very pleased with how the game turned out. Gregg Seelhoff, the programmer, did a great job as did Rick Tumanis, the artist.

Wow, I gotta say that your site has burned my eyes straight out of their sockets... :eek:
You really need to get some more colors, and fix up some outlines on the various tables...
I don't want to sound mean, but I really had a hard time viewing that page...

Anyway, screens look pretty good :D

For what it's worth, the website looks fine to me.

Given Goodsol's tremendous success to date with sales of Pretty Good Solitaire through that same Web page, perhaps a more constructive response is to figure out why it does, in fact, do the job so well.

My guess is that the number of colors on the page, or the accuracy of the outlines, have very little to do with it. What counts, I think, is that he tells you EVERYTHING you would ever want to know about the game before you download it.

Well I hate to bash the site since I like the blog this guy does but I've never liked the web sites myself. I still can't figure out if the sites are separated more for the better search index results or so players only have to type in a short url. Regardless, I find the design chaotic and confusing. Maybe the site does so well because the only things that seem to even stick out are the screenshots and the order/download buttons.

Anyways, I tried out the game and it's a solid product as far as I can tell. But I don't play card games. I was a bit confused as to how to change games. I thought the close button would close the whole program but it only closes the current game.

the game is very nice, no doubt!

about the site, i think it looks more like a website of a typical shareware APP developer. it doesn't look very game-ish to me. however the sites look very professional and there's actually more than enough information on it (5 seperate download buttons for 1 game can be irritating i think)

sorry for commenting more on the site than on the game, but i hope my comments are helpful in some way.

The first time I've played I tried the triple towers game, I stumbled a bit around and I quit in frustration as I didn't know the rules of the game. I tried the game again today and I played the Klondike game (the standard windows version everyone is familiar with). FWIW, I'd prefer that the more common games like Klondike or Freecel be first in the list of games.

In triple towers, the "Take Score" message box stands over some of the cards.

In triple towers, the default window size on my computer doesn't show the score and the time bonus - I have to increase the window size to see them.

The time bonus for the klondike game is larger than the goal of the first two rounds: I can "Take Score" and win from second 1.

Thanks for all your comments, everybody.

First, let me say that a web site should not have more than 3 colors (4 is absolutely tops). This is standard web design.

Second, I don't see any problems with the outlines of the tables, they render quite well in IE.

Yes, our pages are busy (more busy than I would like), but this configuration has been tested for several years now and it works.

I'm not interested in the site looking "game-ish" because gamers are not my market - people who play casual games are, and they are not interested in things looking "game-ish". They want to be able to read what's on the page without squinting.

OK, for the game itself:
Yes, there's a bit of bug still with the positioning of the Take Score button. It still isn't coming up at the beginning in quite the right place in some games. Note that the button is its own little window and can be moved anywhere you want it (and it will stay there in that game). It can even be removed (use the button on the toolbar or the spacebar key).

Triple Towers will be familar to people who know solitaire. They'll recognize it as Triple Peaks from Pretty Good Solitaire or TriPeaks from the Microsoft Entertainment Pack. There are also games similar to this on the game machines that are common now in bars (the popularity of which, in fact, is what prompted doing this game in the first place). It's not a hard game if you read the rules (press the help button on the toolbar).

Yes, the time bonus in Klondike is larger than the goal score, that's by design. You can slide through the first few rounds in many of the games without winning. However, you won't get very far if you don't start winning some games. The first rounds are designed to be easy, it gets harder with each round. The trick is to get to round 100 (which I've never done, my best is round 92 in Triple Peaks).