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Show HN: Kuboble.com – Minimalistic sliding pieces puzzle game
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Re: Show HN: Kuboble.com – Minimalistic sliding pieces puzzle game
#132I love it! Thank you for making it and sharing it. And kudos for pulling it off.
I'm interested in the process of creating the puzzles. What are the conceptual steps you go through to create them? Do you use some algorithmic process or it's all handcrafted?
Re: Show HN: Kuboble.com – Minimalistic sliding pieces puzzle game
#133I love it! Thank you for making it and sharing it. And kudos for pulling it off. I'm interested in the process of creating the puzzles. What are the conceptual steps you go through to create them? Do you use some algorithmic process or it's all handcrafted?
The process evolved and I have eventually settled with something like this:
*Step 1: Level Generation*
Let's say I decide to generate 3-ball levels at 4x4 grid
I do `generate_all_boards(width: 4, height: 4,max_obstacles: 6)` and it will spit out all unique boards 4x4 with at most 6 tiles occupied by an obstacle with regards to all possible isoporphisms (rotations and mirrors)
4 4
....
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4 4
X...
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4 4
.X..
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4 4
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(...)
4 4
XX.X
...X
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.X.X
4 4
ABC.
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4 4
X...
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ABC.
4 4
XX.X
A..X
B...
CX.X
After trying a LOT of heuristics I have made two main conclusions:
- on board there is very often one main trick and any of the interesting final positions have solution based on the same trick and trying to make more levels from one geometry is in all cases I tried a logic duplication.
- the maximum movecount is good enough of a metric
so I take the maximum movecount position, whith some other tie-breakers I don't remember.
e.g.
FINAL POSITION: score:
Movecount: 13
A B C .
a . c .
. . . b
. . . .
* Step 2 : Level Curation*
I have created a version of the game with all those 40k levels split by groups of geometry, number of balls and number of obstacles, and a button "random level in current group". And I started playing those random levels over and over and over. I added a small button "Rate this level" so that whenever I got a level I thought was interesting or some new motive has appeared I rated it as "Super".
In the end all the "Super" levels made it into final game.
Re: Show HN: Kuboble.com – Minimalistic sliding pieces puzzle game
#134I love it! Thank you for making it and sharing it. And kudos for pulling it off. I'm interested in the process of creating the puzzles. What are the conceptual steps you go through to create them? Do you use some algorithmic process or it's all handcrafted?
The process evolved and I have eventually settled with something like this: *Step 1: Level Generation* Let's say I decide to generate 3-ball levels at 4x4 grid I do `generate_all_boards(width: 4, height: 4,max_obstacles: 6)` and it will spit out all unique boards 4x4 with at most 6 tiles occupied by an obstacle with regards to all possible isoporphisms (rotations and mirrors) 4 4 .... .... .... .... 4 4 X... .... ...…
Very insightful, thanks for sharing.
Re: Show HN: Kuboble.com – Minimalistic sliding pieces puzzle game
#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
It isn't solvable, I am willing to put money on it. Not proven rigorously, but mentally one can set up the balls in the final positions and run the puzzle in reverse. the rules change as they can only move orthogonal to a wall or ball they can "push" off, then you can see they can't end up in any configuration which is reachable in the start state, running the normal rules. Keen to hear if if I am wrong OP, but with…
=== Spoiler === I managed that one not too bad. The trick is putting the marker nearest the bottom against the bottom wall (playing it in high contrast mode that's the black one). Then shooting the other one around in a C-shape to get back into it's spot. Now 36 I can't get in 13 moves and I'm stumped!
That doesn't seem like the solution. Are you sure you're talking about level 38? It's starting to seem impossible to me, too, even with your spoiler :(
Apart from that I really like this game- it's simple but challenging and looks good, too. I've played other similar ones but this one just nails it for me.
The only thing I would add would be a reset button - having to spam the undo button to get back to the start position is mildly annoying
Re: Show HN: Kuboble.com – Minimalistic sliding pieces puzzle game
#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
=== Spoiler === I managed that one not too bad. The trick is putting the marker nearest the bottom against the bottom wall (playing it in high contrast mode that's the black one). Then shooting the other one around in a C-shape to get back into it's spot. Now 36 I can't get in 13 moves and I'm stumped!
That doesn't seem like the solution. Are you sure you're talking about level 38? It's starting to seem impossible to me, too, even with your spoiler :( Apart from that I really like this game- it's simple but challenging and looks good, too. I've played other similar ones but this one just nails it for me. The only thing I would add would be a reset button - having to spam the undo button to get back to the start pos…
Click on the top right button, then on bottom left.
Re: Show HN: Kuboble.com – Minimalistic sliding pieces puzzle game
#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
=== Spoiler === I managed that one not too bad. The trick is putting the marker nearest the bottom against the bottom wall (playing it in high contrast mode that's the black one). Then shooting the other one around in a C-shape to get back into it's spot. Now 36 I can't get in 13 moves and I'm stumped!
That doesn't seem like the solution. Are you sure you're talking about level 38? It's starting to seem impossible to me, too, even with your spoiler :( Apart from that I really like this game- it's simple but challenging and looks good, too. I've played other similar ones but this one just nails it for me. The only thing I would add would be a reset button - having to spam the undo button to get back to the start pos…
We know it takes 17 moves, so the setup for the solution is complicated. I can't solve it either, and the spoiler doesn't tell me anything I hadn't already inferred...
Re: Show HN: Kuboble.com – Minimalistic sliding pieces puzzle game
#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
=== Spoiler === I managed that one not too bad. The trick is putting the marker nearest the bottom against the bottom wall (playing it in high contrast mode that's the black one). Then shooting the other one around in a C-shape to get back into it's spot. Now 36 I can't get in 13 moves and I'm stumped!
That doesn't seem like the solution. Are you sure you're talking about level 38? It's starting to seem impossible to me, too, even with your spoiler :( Apart from that I really like this game- it's simple but challenging and looks good, too. I've played other similar ones but this one just nails it for me. The only thing I would add would be a reset button - having to spam the undo button to get back to the start pos…
This is the setup you are looking for, to be honest I can't quite remember the optimal setup to get there but that's a more straightforward problem when you are convinced you can solve it.
https://pasteboard.co/E9w43hwrvRwU.jpg
From there:
White right White up White left Black up
Re: Show HN: Kuboble.com – Minimalistic sliding pieces puzzle game
#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
That doesn't seem like the solution. Are you sure you're talking about level 38? It's starting to seem impossible to me, too, even with your spoiler :( Apart from that I really like this game- it's simple but challenging and looks good, too. I've played other similar ones but this one just nails it for me. The only thing I would add would be a reset button - having to spam the undo button to get back to the start pos…
We know it takes 17 moves, so the setup for the solution is complicated. I can't solve it either, and the spoiler doesn't tell me anything I hadn't already inferred...
---- explicit spoiler ------
Green: up
orange: left - up - right
green: down - left - up - right - up - right
orange: down
green: down - right
orange: up - left - down
green: left
Re: Show HN: Kuboble.com – Minimalistic sliding pieces puzzle game
#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
We know it takes 17 moves, so the setup for the solution is complicated. I can't solve it either, and the spoiler doesn't tell me anything I hadn't already inferred...
---- explicit spoiler ------ Green: up orange: left - up - right green: down - left - up - right - up - right orange: down green: down - right orange: up - left - down green: left
How do you go green up first when it starts with the orange above it?