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<Dave> I couldn't agree more Kirima, and quite a few of those 3000ish players are N7DOT :=). Question to all: How did you come across the game in the first place? About 4 or so years ago, I found a ancient copy of Sokoban on a back-up disk, played through all the levels and started wondering if the concept had been taken further. A search of the net revealed quite a few games which I downloaded and tried one by one. They were all unsatisfactory until I chanced upon Escape which was maybe about the 5th one I tried. Even then, it took me a little while to really get into it. These are many many reasons for the lack of players but I think the biggest one is lack of profile. Just pretend you don't know about Escape, type something like 'block pushing puzzle game' into google and try and find the first hit. Only the determined or the already initiated will find it. This profile will have gradually dropped over recent years as the battle for high placement on the search engine lists has intensified. Social media based games, sponsored mobile apps, and heavily pushed commercial releases have more or less totally bumped Escape out over the last 4 years. This was the main reason I thought of resurrecting the FB page, but maybe that wasn't the best idea, I guess we'll just have to think of a different way. I also think the lack of in-game or searchable comments is a big problem when it comes to retaining new players. I seem to remember that radiant had an idea for implementing a forum, does anybody recall this? |
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<Jim> 'All mod cons 21' uploaded by Jim: We all had a nice break from this level, but I still had one more mod hanging around. |
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<Dave> 'Modular Thinking 6' uploaded by Dave: No difficulty intended, just adding to the recipe! |
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<Dave> Correct, both Mod 14 and The Wrong Parity remain on my list. Never properly looked at at Block Cipher and probably won't until these two are out of the way. |
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<mm> Thank you Xeno for reducing the size! It looks good now on my 13 inch screen, only the last row number 20 is cut, but as Mark said before, most of the time, this would not bother me either as it's rare that it would be used for playing, most of the time it just consists of blue tiles. |
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<mark> Moved to graveyard: Outdated. |
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<mark> 'Another game' uploaded by mark: Been busy making you a new level to play , hope it lasts more than 2 hours. |
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<Dave> Maybe we should implement a maximum size, laptop friendly, rule for future series. My laptop does 21, so Mark's 19 is the worst case so far. Any further bids? |
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<xeno> 'Modular Thinking 5' uploaded by xeno: All same but reduced in height. |
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<Dave> PS. This will need to happen quickly before any of that space is used. |
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<noname> 'All mod cons 18 (reuploaded)' uploaded by noname: Reuploaded by request. Only changed the title. |
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<noname> It seems Tom is too busy at other things, so I think this level will stay in graveyard. I will try to upload this level again with a small change. |
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<mm> Moved to graveyard. |
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<N7DOT 3> Also, about the size issues, on the computer I'm currently using, up to and including a height of 25 will fit on the screen while playing the level. When editing the bottom row drops off though. <N7DOT 3> 'Modular Thinking 4' uploaded by N7DOT 3: I figured I'd add a little bit here. The Hugbot area at the bottom is still untouched, a little bit more of what was already around needs to be used, and a little bit extra for the future. |
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<xeno> Moved to graveyard. |
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<mm> 'Modular Thinking 3' uploaded by mm. |
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<mark> Anything bigger than 19 x 31 goes of the edge of my screen. Hieght 20 is ok as you dont always need to see bottom row. <mm> Thank you, Mark! And thank you also for talking about the size of this level: I also think it's huge, it doesn't show on my small labtop screen so I have to zoom out. Width 30 is o.k., but height 25 is large. Height 20 is the max. showing properly. But I might not be able to really play the game this time, so please choose any size you want. <mark> 'Modular Thinking 2' uploaded by mark: Nice one Xeno lets give it a go. Dont know if its a bit big though and should some of the bottom get chopped off,lets see what others think. Just checked before uploading and i see you done 20 well done mm. We can now all play the new series with clear minds. |
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<devin> 'House Keys I' uploaded by devin: Another tribute to the Botkoban series. |
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<xeno> 'Modular Thinking' uploaded by xeno. |
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<Dave> PPetcS. Thinking about good players, we haven't heard anything from wowei or radiant for a while and I am really beginning to miss their input. <Dave> Right! Done it! Took a break after solving 19, came back to 20 and solved it at the first attempt. What's really annoying is that I had been working on exactly the right basic idea for a couple of days, I was just looking for a more complex solution when an easy one was staring me in the face. Solving 19 probably didn't help much in terms of stategy, but certainly helped in the sense that it unfogged my mind. Curiously, I have first-solved all of 15, 17, 18, 19, and 20 (16 was mine anyway) using the intended solution, which is pretty unusual for a mods series. <mark> Well done Dave just seen speedrun 19. When i started this game escape Balls by alex was on top of the list so ive been playing 7 months max. i have just under 600 left to go but i like to solve every new level as they come. Have not done dont shoot yourself by Dave or the last 2 mods by noname. I have plenty levels to choose from and one day ill try planetry mystery series. I dont really like the sokoban type levels as much even though thats what brought me to this game. yesterday and today ive had a rest from 20 and ticked off all the auto generated levels,I thought some of them were a lot harder than the 3's they were scored. |
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