Comments on: weird bug (Jonah Ostroff)

By: Burnside

Burnside — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 00:23:35 +0000

The “annoying sound for the door” wasn’t a direct impedance to my finishing the game and solving interesting puzzles along the way, so I didn’t touch it. As I described to Jonah via email, I almost didn’t change the goal tile palette either, on account of being able to find the goal in a level by looking at the source.

By: Jonah

Jonah — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 18:24:33 +0000

I don’t really have an official version, but my original idea for the magic gem was sort of like a one-directional version of Burnside’s, except the motion transferred even if the gem wasn’t webbed.

Also oops I keep making levels for your gem. These are mostly tighter/more interesting versions of the previous two.

#############
#.@…?.#…#
#.!.!.!.+.G.#
#…A…#…#
#############

#############
#@………?#
#.!..#A#….#
#..*.###….#
#!…+G#…!#
#############

By: Toph

Toph — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 18:11:25 +0000

Nice one! I’d be curious to see an “official” version of the game with your designs for the finish and the magic gem, but I suppose that would defeat the point. Oh well.

Can you post this on the Puzzlescript forum? I’m sure there’s lots of developers there who’d like to be coauthors.

By: Jonah

Jonah — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 18:07:50 +0000

Or:

#############
####.####…#
#.*…?.#…#
#…@…+.G.#
#.!.!.!.#…#
#…….#…#
#############

Okay okay I’ll let you think of more. It’s just got so much potential!

By: Jonah

Jonah — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 17:53:59 +0000

e.g. this one, although it kinda uses the same trick as the last non-gem level:

###########
#……..?#
#..#AAA#..#
#..#####..#
#….#….#
#.*@.#.G..#
#….#….#
###########

By: Jonah

Jonah — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 17:33:34 +0000

As coauthor, you should totally feel entitled to rewrite the levels. That’s a pretty interesting gem mechanic, and I’m sure you can come up with something where it does work well, even if it doesn’t fit into the levels I provided.

By: Toph

Toph — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 15:21:26 +0000

Nice work, though I note you didn’t change the annoying sound for the door…

By: Toph

Toph — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 15:20:33 +0000

Inspired! Although probably only really playable if you know Puzzlescript already.

Unfortunately, even after I fixed the magic gem, I can’t beat the levels with it in. My gem rule was:
[Action Player][Web Gem] -> [Gem][Player]

which works well, but doesn’t actually beat the levels you wrote. There’s probably some obvious solution that I’m missing. Back to the drawing board…

By: Burnside

Burnside — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 18:57:20 +0000

It comes across to me as appropriately magic to have the magic gem influence spooky action at a distance over other webbing.

It might be more useful to have only the second line I posted, so the gem influences distant webbing, but distant webbing can be moved without moving the gem.

By: Burnside

Burnside — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 18:41:29 +0000

Alright, here’s either my “fix” or my “solution”, depending on how you interpret the game.

http://www.puzzlescript.net/play.html?p=9276987