Would be even cooler if the page procedurally generated a new puzzle every time it reloads. Not sure how you would go about procedurally generating nontrivial but possible puzzles; that could be an interesting computer science challenge.
Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle
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#412That's an awesome game. It took me an embarrassingly long time to solve.
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#413Earlier quoted context omitted.
Another quick reward effect you could do to avoid flashing colors is to make the animals jump up and down, as if they’re happy to get their food
I liked the insanely rapidly flashing colors.
I know, I like them too!
This was a popular thing to do in ye olde commodore 64 days, because you could cycle the background color easily in basic, and nobody thought yet that a video game could trigger epilepsy
(honestly, I'm a bit skeptical about this theory even today, but will defer to the typical opinion on this matter, not being an epilepsy expert)
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#414Earlier quoted context omitted.
Break? That's just a failure condition as per rules, working as intended
Just needs a reset button then. Having to refresh the page is a bit silly.
I am adding a reset button (but it only shows up once you reach a dead end, in order to avoid clutter)
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#415I have to say the fact that I was able to figure out how the puzzle worked - what I was meant to do - with no instructions in about 60 seconds is a good sign. I'm also immediately kind of addicted to this....I really like it. The one thing that annoys me is that I can't see what a symbol is if the dog/bunny is on it because it's covered up. It's hard to remember when there's so many. Some transparency or slight desig…
Honest question: What kind of design change would you make? I am struggling to think of a good solution that doesn't involve making pieces smaller, which I don't want to do.
One option is that a subtle version of the location image pops up next to the location space if it is occupied
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#416Kudos on the puzzle; very easy to understand what needs to be done/achieved to solve it. You could change the page title from "React App" to something more appropriate.
This just shows you how spur of the moment my website was :-)
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#417Very nice. But is there only one kevel or I just haven't figured out how to move to the next after completing it?
I'm assuming the author just made the one level. Iirc Conrad Barski is a medical doctor that made the famous Land of Lisp book for teaching Lisp programming. A pretty creative person. I assume the fun for them was in creating this and getting feedback and not necessarily coming up with 50 levels.
More levels will be coming :-)
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#418That was very well made! Are there any more levels?
more levels will be coming
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#419This was a lot of fun! Please make more levels and post them here!
My main complaint is the 2-way path on the left (Somebody at Bone/Somebody at Flower), I couldn't tell which restraint was for which direction, a simple arrow should fix this.
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#420My daughter is indignant about your inconsistent use of rabbit vs bunny.
Yeah that was by accident, I whipped this up kinda fast