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| Letter Series: v |
Fri 08 Apr 2005 12:31 |
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<Max> Whoa, really easy! Still, I love the letter series... |
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| 24 Karat |
Fri 08 Apr 2005 10:40 |
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<Zoogie> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 244 moves (old: 258). |
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| 105% Fat Free |
Fri 08 Apr 2005 10:17 |
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<Zoogie> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 130 moves (old: 154). |
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| Turing Machine |
Fri 08 Apr 2005 10:09 |
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<mjn> (SPOILER) Yeah, it's a shame about some of those teleports; I did want to keep it (relatively) small, though.
Perhaps it's a little hard to see, with the gigantic size and all, but almost all of the teleports are predictable, and you can actually observe two-thirds of the program without knowing where any of the teleports go--the green and blue switch blocks in the state area are used to indicate 0/1 (for writing) and L/R, respectively.
(Not that that helps a player who doesn't know how TMs work, I guess...)
I'm glad I resisted the temptation to program this with a busy beaver function, though. |
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| Bridge Out |
Fri 08 Apr 2005 09:48 |
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<estatin> (SPOILER) Added solution "Untitled":
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| Turing Machine |
Fri 08 Apr 2005 09:33 |
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<Tom 7> (SPOILER) Given that my solution was 1877 moves and yours was 1875, I'd say this is pretty damn tight.
This is a cool encoding! Although the level is totally easy (turing machines aren't "games" so this isn't a surprise) and kind of repetetive, it does give you time to study what's happening. There are two things that are unfortunate: (1) the tape is finite, so this isn't really a turing machine (but it's clearly not possible to code up any infinite storage in Escape played on a finite map, and probably not possible even on an infinite grid, because of conservation of matter)--it's sort of a turing finite automata. But still, it's easy to see how to generalize to arbitrarily long tape. (2) Because the machine's program is encoded in the destinations of teleports, it makes the "interesting" part of the level essentially hidden from the player. I don't know how you could have gotten around this without making the level much bigger, though.
Anyway, cool! |
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| MySokoban (Mac) Level 1 |
Fri 08 Apr 2005 05:55 |
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<Andrew> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 268 moves (old: 270). |
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| Every Step You Make |
Fri 08 Apr 2005 05:55 |
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<Andrew> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 197 moves (old: 221). |
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| Messing up with yellow blocks |
Fri 08 Apr 2005 05:54 |
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<Andrew> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 144 moves (old: 147). |
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| Tutorial 3 revisited |
Fri 08 Apr 2005 05:53 |
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<Andrew> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 48 moves (old: 50). |
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| Turing Machine |
Thu 07 Apr 2005 22:55 |
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<Joshua Bone> (SPOILER) As a technological demonstration this is an incredible feat of engineering. The mechanisms all appear to work perfectly. Aside from a triple choice of teleports at the beginning, there does not seem to be any other possible path to take except for the solution route. Extremely tight.
<mjn> From the embedding department: a Turing Machine.
Tape, tape heads, and "motor" on the left; state memory and transition function on the right. This particular machine (which I stole from the Wikipedia article) duplicates a series of 1's. (Solution's a little long, unfortunately, but I thought it'd be nice to have a machine that actually does something, rather than putter around for a few steps and stop abruptly.)
(I'd recommend playing this zoomed-out.)
<mjn> 'Turing Machine' uploaded by mjn. |
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| I love Gold! |
Thu 07 Apr 2005 21:49 |
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<Filch> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 116 moves (old: 120). |
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| Lasers and Switches |
Thu 07 Apr 2005 17:57 |
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<Zoogie> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 27 moves (old: 29).
<Zoogie> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 29 moves (old: 46). |
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| The great divide |
Thu 07 Apr 2005 15:32 |
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<Zoogie> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 229 moves (old: 317). |
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| Save me, Hugbot! |
Thu 07 Apr 2005 15:23 |
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<Tom 7> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 113 moves (old: 999999).
I found this one hard for a long time, I think because I was confused about what the top-left panel did (because a bot starts on it!). The solution is actually pretty straightforward once I thought carefully about what the panels do.
Anyway, lot of thanks the Hugbot gets for saving your life, huh? |
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| super hugo |
Thu 07 Apr 2005 15:00 |
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<Zoogie> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 48 moves (old: 50). |
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| Letter Series: v |
Thu 07 Apr 2005 14:27 |
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<Tom 7> 'Letter Series: v' uploaded by Tom. |
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| Dodgeball: One on One |
Thu 07 Apr 2005 13:08 |
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<Max> (SPOILER) Oh yeah, nevermind, duh... |
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| You're So Pushy, Hugbot (fixed) |
Thu 07 Apr 2005 13:02 |
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<Max> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 83 moves (old: 111).
<Max> (SPOILER) Added speedrun: 111 moves (old: 175).
Finally solved this one! Nice. |
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| Dialectic v2 |
Thu 07 Apr 2005 12:29 |
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<Zoogie> Whew... I don't think I've had so many "OMG this is impossible" followed by "Oh, wait... I got it now" periods. Good job :) |
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| Dodgeball: One on One |
Thu 07 Apr 2005 10:19 |
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<Max> (SPOILER) By the way, how can you "easily kill him"?? |
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