Psykoban [WIP]

[Aaron Steed]

Just thought I'd try out blocks moving whenever they're on the same axis.

https://www.puzzlescript.net/play.html?p=d9a22944207c3e839320147cd3382e0d

I'm pretty sure this mechanic has already been done. I mean it's a pretty obvious idea, but I can't think of where I've seen it before.

[Stephen Lavelle]

if someone has done it, they haven't done it with this charm :) (I'm pretty sure it hasn't been done)

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[Stephen Lavelle]

had trouble reading this tile - is it meant to be the top wall of the pit?

[Hand-E-Food]

Yeah, I really enjoyed that.  While I enjoy these puzzles being short, I could really go a few more levels of this!

[Aaron Steed]

Tried out a few more levels:

https://www.puzzlescript.net/play.html?p=7cdd4b969f4723cfc49fbadaf0fc7cb1

Might do some more. There's a lot of obvious "drag it inside the maze" ideas I come up with, but they're always miserable to play. Gates have a similar problem that I've done two block the door puzzles - not much else in it so far.

[Stephen Lavelle]

is there something you could do to refine this level:

h#########h

ho.a.o.a.oh

h..b...b..h

h.eb.@.be.h

haabaaabaah

h..b.e.b..h

ho.b.o.b.oh

###########

it felt a bit busy-worky to me, but there's something about it I like as well

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[Aaron Steed]

I can change that level into this:

h#########h
ho.a...a.oh
h..b...b..h
h.eb.@.be.h
haaba.abaah
h..b.e.b..h
h....o....h
###########

Which removes the preamble and gets straight to the issue of winching the rocks down without dunking the 3rd rock. But it looks ugly and feels too short.

But what about this?

h#########h
ho.......oh
h.ea.@.ae.h
h.abaaaba.h
h..b.e.b..h
h....o....h
###########

I've connected all of the islands at the edges. It's even more work to solve, but a bit more comedy in playing as it's very hard not to end up targeting 2 rocks at the same time.

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I'm wondering about the central move a bit. So this grabs anything on the same axis as the player.

[ > Player | ... | Crate ] -> [ > Player | ... | > Crate ]

[ < Player | ... | Crate ] -> [ < Player | ... | < Crate ]

How do I just grab the 1st thing? All I can think of is writing a dirty loop to do it.

My thought was to have some crates that only the 1st in line would respond to your power. But I might get just as much functionality from a simple crate you can push yourself and use to pin rocks against.

[Stephen Lavelle]

dirty loop, yip (that is, propagate something from the player until something is found to move)

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[Aaron Steed]

Oookay, I'm just repeating the same concepts when I come up with levels now. The share thingy wasn't working for some reason so I dumped it on itch.io:

https://st33d.itch.io/psykoban

Here's the code in case anyone wants to keep tinkering:

title PSyKOBAN

author Steed

homepage www.robotacid.com

require_player_movement

run_rules_on_level_start

text_color #ffd600

========

OBJECTS

========

Background

#e5b679

WallTop

#d34900

WallBase

#d32112 #820e00 #d34900 #9da3c7 

22222

22220

01111

11111

11111

Box

#ff8126 #c93700 #ffa30d #d32112

22222

02220

00000

11111

11111

PitTop

#c8601b #7b3a12 #000000 #ff0000 

01010

12121

21212

22222

22222

PitBottom

Black

Crate

#d32112 #ffa30d #ff8126 #c93700 

.111.

11122

12223

32233

.333.

CratePit

#d32112 #ffa30d #ff8126 #c93700 

.....

.222.

22333

23333

3.3.3

BoxPit

#d32112 #ffa30d #ff8126 #c93700 

.....

22222

32223

33333

3.3.3

Marker

#c8601b #e72116 #ffffff #ff0000 

0...0

.0.0.

..0..

.0.0.

0...0

onMarker

#c8601b #e72116 #ffffff #ff0000 

.....

.2.2.

..2..

.2.2.

.....

Player

#000000 #e72116 #ffffff #ff0000 

00000

02020

00000

.0000

.1..1

Switch

#ffd600 #ffa30d #d34900 #c93700 

.....

.001.

.001.

20012

.222.

GateClosed

#ffd600 #ffa30d #a62514 #c93700 

33333

30012

32222

22222

22222

GateOpen

#ffd600 #ffa30d #a62514 #c93700 

3.3.3

.....

3...2

.....

2.2.2

GateOpening

Pink

(#8080ff #97ffff #034ebe #ff0000 

#d32112 #ffa30d #ff8126 #c93700 

#ffd600 #ffa30d #d34900 #c93700 

)

uigrab

#ffa30d #ffd600 #d32112

.111.

11100

10002

20022

.222.

=======

LEGEND

=======

. = Background

# = WallBase

h = WallTop

@ = Player

o = Crate

e = Marker

f = Switch

g = GateClosed

a = PitTop

b = PitBottom

c = Box

Wall = WallTop or WallBase

Gate = GateOpen or GateClosed

Item = Player or Wall or Crate or GateClosed

Pit = PitTop or PitBottom

Movable = Crate or Box

MovablePit = CratePit or BoxPit

=======

SOUNDS

=======

sfx0 8545502 (kick crate)

sfx1 52801501 (crate in pit)

sfx2 89521507 (crate hit wall)

sfx5 19320707 (gate)

sfx6 42954502 (break wall)

sfx7 5123907 (on target)

EndLevel 65686300 (win)

================

COLLISIONLAYERS

================

GateOpening

Background

Marker, Switch, GateOpen, Pit

CratePit, BoxPit

Player, Wall, Crate, GateClosed, Box

uigrab

onMarker

======

RULES

======

(no walk over pits, unless filled)

[ > Player | Pit No MovablePit] -> [ Player | Pit No MovablePit]

(drag)

[ > Player | Box ] -> [ > Player | > Box ]

[ > Player | ... | Crate ] -> [ > Player | ... | > Crate ]

[ < Player | ... | Crate ] -> [ < Player | ... | < Crate ]

(fill pit?)

late [ Crate Pit No MovablePit] -> [ No Crate Pit CratePit ] sfx1

late [ Box Pit No MovablePit] -> [ No Box Pit BoxPit ] sfx1

(gates)

(are items on switches)

late [ Item Switch ] [ GateClosed ] -> [ Item Switch ] [ GateClosed GateOpening ]

(any uncovered)

late [ No Item Switch ] [ GateOpening ] -> [ Switch ] [ ]

(then open)

late [ GateOpening GateClosed ] -> [ GateOpen ] sfx5

(else close)

late [ No Item Switch ] [ No Item GateOpen ] -> [ Switch ] [ GateClosed ] sfx5

(highlight covered targets)

late [ Movable Marker No onMarker] -> [ Movable Marker onMarker ] sfx7

late [ No Movable Marker onMarker ] -> [ Marker ]

(highlight grabbed rocks)

late [uigrab]->[]

late [ Player | ... | Crate ] -> [ Player | ... | Crate uigrab]

==============

WINCONDITIONS

==============

All Marker on Movable

=======

LEVELS

=======

message With my psychic powers I will surpass all my brothers at moving rocks!

h#####h

h....eh

h..@..h

ho....h

#######

h######h

h......h

h...h..h

h@.ohe.h

########

h######h

ho...e.h

ho.@.e#h

ho...e.h

########

message z to undo

h#######h

h@..a..oh

h.e.b.e.h

ho..b..oh

#########

h#######h

haaaaaaah

h..e.e.oh

ho..@..oh

ho.e.e..h

haaaaaaah

#########

h####h##h

ho...h.eh

h..@.h..h

hof..g..h

h....h..h

ho...h.eh

#########

h#######h

h...e..eh

h.@.o.o.h

h.......h

heo...oeh

h.......h

h.o.o.o.h

he..e..eh

#########

h##h####h

h..h...oh

h.eg..f.h

ho.h.@..h

h.eg..f.h

h..h...oh

#########

h#########h

ho.......oh

h.ea.@.ae.h

h.abaaaba.h

h..b.e.b..h

h....o....h

###########

message A heavy block! How dare they test me like this. I must push it the old fashioned way.

h#####h

h..oe.h

h@c#e.h

h..oe.h

#######

h########h

ho......oh

h..@eehh.h

h.hh####.h

h.##ee...h

ho......oh

##########

h#######h

ho..o..oh

h.e.e.e.h

h.......h

hoe.@.eoh

h.......h

h.e.e.e.h

ho..o..oh

#########

hhhh#######h

h###o..a.e.h

h..co..b.e.h

h@.ho..b.e.h

############

message Behold my mastery as I move these final rocks!

h############h######h

h.....a..g...h...ae.h

h..a..bf.h.c.#.o.b..h

ho@b.....h.......be.h

#####################

message Thirsty work. Off to the pub then.

[Chyme]

This was a super clever idea, and yet so simple! Loved it! Quite a bunch of very nice surprises as well.