Crossfire Tutorial

Brief demo and run-through of Crossfire including:
-How to set up a wordlist/dictionary
-How to link a clue database
-How to lay out a grid and fill it
-How to use the lookup tab and edit a wordlist
-Comparison with Crossword Compiler
Links:
Crossfire
beekeeperlabs.c...
Spread the Wordlist
www.spreadthew...
Matt Ginsberg's Clue Database
tiwwdty.com/clue/
Sid Sivakumar's construction stream video
• Crossword construction...
Patrick Berry's Constructor's Handbook ($)
aframegames.co...
My Twitch channel
/ lebronswanson

[@justmikeandshit]

This is amazing. Thank you!

[@jwnyc3]

I took an online course with Brooke Husik and Natan Last, who recommended this software. I paid my $50 and unfortunately find the documentation illiterate. Can you recommend instructions that are clear and simple - something a person with only a couple of Harvard degrees can understand? Something that tells you how to save your work? Something that tells you why words have different "scores"? Something that organizes information in a logical way that a moron like me can comprehend?

[@marcobday]

that was very helpful. thanks.

[@gr4ph1t3]

Thank you for this video! I'm struggling to find resources on how to successfully place black squares in a grid. Do you have recommendations for where to look? I've placed my theme answers but am sort of blindly placing black squares as best I can, and so far the grid always returns as unfillable. Thank you in advance!

[@jwnyc3]

Yes, the software "instructions" are useless. I'm having all the same issues. The documentation is written by coders; it's illiterate.

[@justmikeandshit]

use the period "." to place a black square

[@gr4ph1t3]

@@justmikeandshit I meant strategically. I know how place the squares, but not where to put them to get a fillable grid without just randomly trying different combos until something works.

[@justmikeandshit]

@gr4ph1t3 ah yeah I see. My bad. I also just put stuff randomly until it finally starts making sense lol.