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Re: Game about squares

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Post by integricho »

laxatives wrote: post #13

I like the game and that it teaches you the rules as you play without needing any explicit instructions. I thought some of the comments between levels were annoying. Also the little flag in the corner indicating you're over the correct target could be a little easier to see at a glance. Just curious, how do you design these levels? Work backwards from the solution? edit: I'm a little further in, and I'm starting to t…

I specifically liked the comments between levels, it was obvious what he did there after the second message :)

Re: Game about squares

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Post by thomasahle »

tobias2014 wrote: post #36

It should be possible to write a solver for this with a "decision tree". There are decisions where the blocks run out of the screen - you ignore these. You only take into account "sensible" decisions (this has to be formalized). When there are multiple possible "sensible" decisions you branch. One decision consists of an action "click x times on block X and y times on block Y …"

Any solution is on the form 12232322... where the number expresses what square to click. It's pretty easy to brute force the game from there. Sure, you can use tree search and prune the search a bit, but it's still brute force and may take exponential time for tough levels.

You can also look into some of the research that has been done on Sokoban AI's.

Re: Game about squares

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Post by bellerocky »

pseudometa wrote: post #26

And go! Tomorrow this game in full will appear on the Google Play store with the exact same colors. In 3 days this game will be rewritten in Swift, Erlang, and have a community based variation. In 4 days someone will find a way to merge this game with 2048 and Flappy Bird. In a week there will be 20 variations of this game including one called Dodge Squares on the iTunes App Store. I'm not psychic, I've just seen thi…

These are all cool things that I would be happy to check out, play with and read about. It's either this or another Show HN filled with angry detractors (kinda like this one), something about the NSA reading my email, or the latest boycott because Facebook, Amazon, Dropbox, Google, Apple are doing something mean to someone.

Re: Game about squares

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Post by stinos »

Gracana wrote: post #8
[deleted] wrote: post #5

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But it is! Try stacking the red and dark blue colors up in order and pushing them with the light blue block. I got stuck on 21, and that's enough for me for now. Good puzzle game!

21: 'think outside of the box' :P

Re: Game about squares

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Post by canacrypto »

pseudometa wrote: post #26

And go! Tomorrow this game in full will appear on the Google Play store with the exact same colors. In 3 days this game will be rewritten in Swift, Erlang, and have a community based variation. In 4 days someone will find a way to merge this game with 2048 and Flappy Bird. In a week there will be 20 variations of this game including one called Dodge Squares on the iTunes App Store. I'm not psychic, I've just seen thi…

You forgot to mention the various AI solvers that will sprung up and compete to be smartest / fastest.
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