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[Pineapple]

status update: I am currently coding a brute-force algorithm meant to determine the shortest route in a level. No more of this human-error rubbish, I want people to have to work for those precious high-score-achieved stars.

In the future, only about 2/3 of the game's 200+ levels will be unlockable through beating or skipping levels. the other 1/3 will require the player to get the highest score possible on previously unlocked levels. (Which, let me tell you, is a hell of a lot more difficult than simply beating the level in the first place.)

[Quikding]

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[Xishem]

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Works fine for me.

I've played until I got to 3-7. I'll probably finish the levels you have tomorrow some time. I stopped there because I'm getting cranky and didn't feel like doing another 150+-move level again (but I'll check it out again tomorrow!) Also, at first I didn't realize that you could see which levels you got stars on already. On my first playthroughs of levels, I got 9/11, 4/11, 5/8 so far in respective worlds.

However, I really enjoyed the levels I played, and I really hope you can continue to add ingenuity to your level designs to create harder and more complicated levels.

I haven't had a ton of issues finding the solutions, but some were pretty tough, and some I found a few solutions a lot better than the high scores, so I'm pretty happy about that.

Speaking of, good luck with your shortest-route algorithm; I think it will add a lot to the game if you can find the shortest possible routes to each level.

Also, the moving guys will really make it a pain to find the shortest route possible. That's going to suck

I had to play the game with the sound muted, so I guess I can comment on the music the next time I make a post.

I honestly can't think of any complaints. The game is simple, fun, and pretty addictive. Keep it up!

[rtpg]

These puzzles are really neat.  I love the old aesthetic too, reminds me of.....well it reminds me of old things.


I guess the only real complaint is that on teleporting levels there's no real way to have an overview of the entire level..... but I guess that's done on purpose isn't it

[Pineapple]

However, I really enjoyed the levels I played, and I really hope you can continue to add ingenuity to your level designs to create harder and more complicated levels.

It's my intention to introduce at least 1 new 'special' tile per world to enforce the feeling of constant newness and increasing complexity.

Speaking of, good luck with your shortest-route algorithm; I think it will add a lot to the game if you can find the shortest possible routes to each level. Also, the moving guys will really make it a pain to find the shortest route possible. That's going to suck

I wrote a piece of code that brute-forces every possible combination of moves (of the lowest quantity I've found manually) but it's completely impractical because it is so slow (on my i7 processor, 1 1/2 hours for the first, 11-move level; more moves will result in an exponential increase - ie 12 moves would take upwards of 6 hours). I think, however, that with clever use of A* I could make the algorithm much more effective.

[Pineapple]

Demo download updated.

4 worlds.
54 levels.
And a whole lotta awesome.

There is now a reward for earning a star on levels (which is done by matching or beating the high score). There's also a level skipping feature now. Go to options to enable it.