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Show HN: Hyve Tile, a puzzle game but I can't solve it

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Post by yunusefendi52 »

I created a puzzle game after some recent years of hiatus from game development. It was a puzzle game where you have to assemble a randomized tiles. You can view the preview using eye icon on the top right side. You also can undo your previous step.

I created this game using Unity because I am already familiar with it.

If you encounter the tiles is not randomized, please try recreate the tile again, I don't exactly know why it's happenning.

Thank you

Show HN: Hyve Tile, a puzzle game but I can't solve it
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Post by HenryBemis »

Does your puzzle start from an (non-visible) completed state, then you apply to it a random number between 50-100 of random moves/swaps, and then it becomes visible for the player? I mean is it (even) solvable? Or each piece of the puzzle is randomly placed AND randomly oriented, which could make potentially unsolvable?

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Post by yunusefendi52 »

HenryBemis wrote: post #2

Does your puzzle start from an (non-visible) completed state, then you apply to it a random number between 50-100 of random moves/swaps, and then it becomes visible for the player? I mean is it (even) solvable? Or each piece of the puzzle is randomly placed AND randomly oriented, which could make potentially unsolvable?

It's start from completed state and then randomized. I think it's solvable if you can retrace the randomized step (by using undo button)

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Post by keerthiko »

It's a neat game! The mechanics and the general idea is intuitive (all the road joints should connect sensibly). And extremely hard, because it's still an abstract artwork with very minimal constraints.

I think if there was some kind of indication of what the final thing should look like, or an indication if after manipulation a tile is either in the correct spot but wrong rotation, or correct spot and correct rotation, it would go a long way to making the game feel solvable, as you can have a sense of progress.

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Post by keerthiko »

tantalor wrote: post #6

This is pretty easy to solve each level. Here is the strategy I used: in the top right corner there is a button that looks like an "undo" icon and a number. Just keep hitting that until the puzzle is solved. Then you can stop.

I believe that's supposed to be how you see the solution, not a strategy to playing the game...
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