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Tutorial 18: Heart Framers Mon 25 Apr 2005 23:25
<Tom 7> (admin) Moved to official/tutorial.
<Tom 7> 'Tutorial 18: Heart Framers' uploaded by Tom.
 
Square Peg (v2) Mon 25 Apr 2005 22:20
<mjn> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 145 moves (old: 161).
 
Square Peg Mon 25 Apr 2005 22:17
<mjn> Whoops, forgot to mention: Tom, would you please delete this old version?
 
Square Peg (v2) Mon 25 Apr 2005 18:15
<Max> I think this is my favorite version of this one...
 
CP Violation Mon 25 Apr 2005 17:05
<Tom 7> (SPOILER) iain's speedrun is a cook, because it doesn't activate all the panels on the bottom left. but it's pretty close to the "right" solution.
 
The Blue Room Mon 25 Apr 2005 16:57
<jcreed> (SPOILER) Added solution "Original":
 
Red vs. Blue Mon 25 Apr 2005 16:54
<jcreed> (SPOILER) Added solution "Original":
 
You Break It, You Buy It Mon 25 Apr 2005 16:53
<jcreed> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 229 moves (old: 238).
 
Who Let The Hugbot Out? Mon 25 Apr 2005 15:17
<Milton> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 119 moves (old: 137).
I like it!
 
Handmade 037 Mon 25 Apr 2005 14:33
<Tom 7> Well, it would suggest at least that people haven't been sued for it, which is good. I should be able to at least safely have them up on the website, if not as part of the GPL'd Escape.

Unlike trademarks, copyright protection doesn't expire merely from lack of enforcement, even for 25 years. 25 years is also way too short for the copyright to expire on its own--that's something like 100 years, now. (This is assuming that sokoban levels can be copyrighted, which I believe they can.)

I wish the world were such that I didn't have to be a hardass about copyright stuff, but alas, it is. Anyway, part of the point of Escape is to create a game that everyone can play (and copy) without worrying about this kind of thing, so let's do it by making new levels. Thanks!
 
Escape from Tetris Mon 25 Apr 2005 13:30
<littlekenny> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 106 moves (old: 112).
I built this from Max's solution.
 
Handmade 037 Mon 25 Apr 2005 13:19
<nushae> Well... the existence of numerous shareare and freeware games that include the original levels would suggest so, wouldn't it?

Besides, any company still owning the rights to these levels and trying to excercise them, will have to explain why they haven't done so for well over 25 years now. Under such circumstances it becomes "pretty hard" (that's a legal term, ahem) to make a case...

But as I said, I won't upload anything not by me ;)
 
Old Junkyard Mon 25 Apr 2005 10:51
<OCTweak> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 23 moves (old: 25).
 
Handmade 037 Mon 25 Apr 2005 09:41
<Tom 7> I don't believe the original Sokoban levels are in the public domain; are they?
 
Stress Fracture Mon 25 Apr 2005 05:29
<Alois> (SPOILER) Added solution "Stress Fracture":
 
Who Let The Hugbot Out? Mon 25 Apr 2005 04:49
<estatin> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 137 moves (old: 145).
 
Wave Remix Sun 24 Apr 2005 23:59
<Michelle> (SPOILER) Cook:
 
Symmetry Sun 24 Apr 2005 22:01
<Tom 7> (SPOILER) Nice solution. This is one of those rare ones that's pretty loose despite being pretty hard.
 
Hardest IQ Carrier (EXPERTS ONLY!!!!!!!!) Sun 24 Apr 2005 21:59
<Tom 7> (SPOILER) I don't recommend bothering with this one, but using save and restore will help you a lot with the last part -- press 's' to save and then 'r' to restore that point.
 
Autogenerated 052 Sun 24 Apr 2005 21:59
<Tom 7> I like Sokoban levels, and I'm happy to have more of 'em. (If you think there are too many new tiles, feel free to make interesting levels with whatever subset you choose! I think the fascination with bots is because they are only a few months old at this point.)

The only problem with levels that are copied off the web is with licensing; I'm trying to be careful not to have any copyright violations. Even if the levels are "freely available," that doesn't mean I can just include them in a GPL project.

Since Yoshio levels are good, I am going to include them in a web collection (but not with the original installer) so that players can download them. But if I get any complaints from the author, I'll have to remove them.
 
Stress Fracture Sun 24 Apr 2005 21:08
<Joshua Bone> I think this is my favorite Escape level yet! Very nice puzzle.
<mjn> 'Stress Fracture' uploaded by mjn.
 
Symmetry Sun 24 Apr 2005 19:38
<mjn> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 120 moves (old: 200).
 
Handmade 037 Sun 24 Apr 2005 18:28
<estatin> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 122 moves (old: 166).
 
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