[GAME] Sweet Hints

[Marcos D]

Hello guys!

To practice more with the language, I set myself the task of reproducing some of the mechanics of one of my favorite puzzle games, which you will surely identify :)

In the process, the project became a mixture of re-interpretation and cheesy tribute of the original. Here is a first draft:

https://www.puzzlescript.net/play.html?p=450750d4891cec7add5bb48d7602a620

I think some of the missing mechanics are, if not impossible, very difficult to implement in PuzzleScript; but maybe some of you can give me some pointers to possible ways to codify them.

Regards,

Marcos

[Alan Hazelden]

Works well enough!

I don't know that these levels will do a good job of teaching these mechanics to anyone who's not played The Witness already, but maybe you're fine with that.

One minor input thing - I maybe would like it if when I press a direction, it moved the line until the next junction? Right now it's slightly awkward to press twice to move one place in those square mazes. Definitely not necessary though.

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[Marcos]

> I don't know that these levels will do a good job of teaching these
> mechanics to anyone who's not played The Witness already, but maybe you're
> fine with that.

Oh, they definitely don't work as introductory levels, of course. But
I don't intend to release it as a complete game (at least not without
the consent of Jon Blow). It's more a tribute or joke for those who
played the original.

[Hand-E-Food]

That was short and sweet.

The mechanics were very difficult to work out, but I did like the trial-and-error format.  It probably needs just a couple more levels before the last one to mix the mechanics more gradually.  And then you can bring in some really tough stuff! :-)

[Stephen Lavelle]

If you bring up a particular mechanic, I'd be up for discussing how one might implement it.

(I can imagine someone making an in-world version, like https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/puzzlescript/R0E-mNlUHZg - that'd be a lot of work, though!) 

2018-01-17 13:36 GMT+01:00 Hand-E-Food <hand_...@hotmail.com>:

That was short and sweet.

The mechanics were very difficult to work out, but I did like the trial-and-error format.  It probably needs just a couple more levels before the last one to mix the mechanics more gradually.  And then you can bring in some really tough stuff! :-)

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[Marcos]

The "hexagonal board" ones are out of the question (barring heavy
changes to the engine); the ones that perhaps are implementable are
the polyomino rules and the "relaxer" rules. The relaxer is, I
estimate, the easiest; but there are some subtleties regarding the
order of execution of some conditions...

On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 12:49 PM, Stephen Lavelle <anal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you bring up a particular mechanic, I'd be up for discussing how one
> might implement it.
>
> (I can imagine someone making an in-world version, like
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/puzzlescript/R0E-mNlUHZg - that'd be
> a lot of work, though!)
>
> 2018-01-17 13:36 GMT+01:00 Hand-E-Food <hand_...@hotmail.com>:
>>
>> That was short and sweet.
>>
>> The mechanics were very difficult to work out, but I did like the
>> trial-and-error format. It probably needs just a couple more levels before
>> the last one to mix the mechanics more gradually. And then you can bring in
>> some really tough stuff! :-)
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[Ove Ahlman]

Lovely... Really brought me back to the witness again.though without having played it the mechanics would have been tricky to figure out.

[iczuba...@gmail.com]

I haven't played that "The Witness" game others mention. I tried to play the game, but with no explanation it was just trial and error and after a few levels it became more frustrating than engaging, so I left it. Just my opinion.