Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm using a trackpad, so I don't have middle-click or right+left-click – could you make a single-click or double-click on the number cause the clear?
I've just added left+Ctrl, does that work for you now?
[deleted]
Show HN: The classic Minesweeper on an irregular grid
91–100 of 143 posts
Re: Show HN: The classic Minesweeper on an irregular grid
#92A long time ago a friend of a friend wrote a minesweeper game (in DOS!) that was on an hexagonal grid. It was surprisingly enjoyable and relaxing to play.
I probably still have it somewhere if I grep through my drive.
Re: Show HN: The classic Minesweeper on an irregular grid
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
The thing with this version is corners also count as touching. The different numbers of neighbors itself isn't confusing, but counting squares that share a single point as neighbors is definitely unintuitive. Edit: Oh shoot, I completely forgot regular minesweeper does this too! It's definitely the acute angles that threw me off!
Regular minesweeper counts these too, but the different shapes definitely make it harder! I found it much harder to register two acute angles as "adjacent" than two right angles are.
[deleted]
Re: Show HN: The classic Minesweeper on an irregular grid
#94Is there a paid version without ads? Or all the tracking in the permissions?
Re: Show HN: The classic Minesweeper on an irregular grid
#95'Delete' is an interesting take on Minesweeper, played on the surface of irregular 3D objects: https://store.steampowered.com/app/773670/Delete/
Re: Show HN: The classic Minesweeper on an irregular grid
#96Neat!
A Voronoi tesselation [1] based on Poisson disc sampling [2] would probably lead to more varied and interesting boards, but would lose the all-quads feature. Here's one someone made (that looks like it uses uniform sampling rather than something nicely spaced): https://babelthuap.github.io/voronoi-mines/. That has a good hover-for-neighbours idea.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voronoi_diagram
[2] e.g. https://www.jasondavies.com/poisson-disc/ (the Bridson paper there is easier to implement than Dunbar and Humphreys)
Re: Show HN: The classic Minesweeper on an irregular grid
#97Can you explain the “Data Tracked and Linked to You” in the App Store? The game looks fun but I’m hoping to see something a little more privacy friendly, that isn’t collecting and selling my data. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/minesweeper-twist/id6473121693
Id happily pay a couple bucks to support the creators before Id download an app with those settings.
Re: Show HN: The classic Minesweeper on an irregular grid
#98Well, that's as addicting as the original. Kudos!
Re: Show HN: The classic Minesweeper on an irregular grid
#99Neat... but I'm missing the left+right click, in the Windows Minesweeper, say you have a square with 4, and you've marked 4 squares around it as bombs, you can left+right click on the 4-square and uncover all the unmarked squares around it, instead of going one by one. Also "undo" is cool, but "lose 60s" seems backwards, considering one would get 60 seconds added to one's time.
Thanks a lot for trying it and the feedback. As a sibling comment said, left+right click should work (as well as middle click). Which OS/browser are you using? I like to fix this. And you're right for "lose 60s", It's not the ideal wording. I was thinking it in terms of the less time you end up with, the better your score is. But "gain 60s" wouldn't work either. I'll have a think, but curious to hear if anyone has su…
Re wording: perhaps "costs 60s" might be sufficiently unambiguous?
Re: Show HN: The classic Minesweeper on an irregular grid
#100The non-rectangular grid idea was great but didn't feel as fun for me. I wish the grid was non-rectangular but regular, like the alternative grid types available in Loopy:
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/loop...