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<Eric119> What a great level! <mjn> Awesome. <Doom> 'Perfect Crime' uploaded by Doom: Grab your equipment and steal the well-guarded heart! |
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<Tom 7> Thanks! =) |
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<Tom 7> Good... we don't like impossible levels. ;) <SPAM> 'Esprit 16 - Escape Style' uploaded by SPAM: Based on the 16th Level of "Esprit", though both levels have not much more in common than the "rooms"-design. For those who don't know: Esprit is a game where you move a black marble around to find matching oxyd stones and was created by Meinolf Schneider. The level shouldn't be too difficult again; my levels are unfortunaly either easy or impossible :/... Hope you like it! |
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<Aprial> 'Bridges of Konigsberg - possible version (fixed)' uploaded by Aprial: |
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<Max> These were very enjoyable, nice work! Each offered a distinct challenge and after investing all the time to get familiar with the panels, it felt natural to get immersed in a brief series that dealt with the same setup. I feel compelled to choose a favorite, and I think it's the first one because the broken blocks just provide good shortcuts that don't really make it significantly easier. On the second two it started to get a little tedious to have to keep shooting the balls in circles until they lined up where I wanted them to. |
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<Max> This one totally stumped me my first try, but then I got it in about ten minutes the second time... |
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<Aprial> 'Transponder Cross' uploaded by Aprial: scrapped suspense 3 |
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<mm> These 3 magic pools are just lovely and very smart - it took me a while to figure out how this third one works, nicely done, wowei (: |
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<SPAM> This is definitely the most difficult level since I joined Escape! Haven't solved it yet, but I keep on trying... |
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<mm> SPAM: Chapeau for this work, I guess it was such a lot of work to create this level! Max: I agree, of course it's reasonable to try to embed the principles of other games, and sometimes it works perfectly. I also understand that searching for new possibilities by doing such embeddings is a good way to advance in the game's progress. I guess as I don't know most of those other games because I didn't grow up with them, some of those trials just look pretty weird to me (; BTW: I like the limit of colours and size, too. I would not want more colours, I probably did not express myself very well. <Max> SPAM: Well of course nobody would ever prefer playing Sudoku like this to playing it on paper, but you definitely did a great job on the task of embedding a working Sudoku within the limitations (mostly size) of the level editor. I like the symbol approach, though it would have been a little easier to solve if you used four gold blocks in each given to resemble the positions the four red blocks would be in after activating the correct panels. Another option would have been to have an electricity tile adjacent to each square so you could get rid of the unnecessary red block clutter after you solve a square. Kirima: there has emerged a sort of tradition in Escape of trying to embed other games or functions as levels, regardless of their actual practicality as such. I enjoy this pasttime (I did a functional "minesweeper" embedding awhile back) and I would say they are sometimes better appreciated as Escape engineering feats (i.e. "Turing Machine") than actual levels ;) . And Tom: I like the size limit of the levels for the same reasons I like the color limit, so my vote is to keep it as is. |
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<Max> Ahh yes, thanks for the mod, good one. I can't believe the original was doubly cookable! All in all, I like Tom's the best though since it's a bit more devious (but I did solve this his way before yours for some reason)... |
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<Tom 7> 'Third Contact' uploaded by Tom 7: Cook of last two. |
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<bpotetz> 'Second Contact' uploaded by bpotetz: Nice, Max. Here's a small mod for you. |
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<mjn> I've never felt limited by the board size; I think I'd vote to keep it as it is. <mm> Even if this should or could work: I still think what I think. The idea of sudoku can't be transcribed to escape, it's way too far away. WHY should we search for things that are just not at all competitive to this game? <SPAM> 'Japanese Escape!' uploaded by SPAM: Okay, this should work. Don't know why I did that mistake. Please don't use the alternate layer! It'll be boring, and isn't that excactly the only thing a level shouldn't be? Hope you enjoy the working version! |
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<SPAM> Moved to graveyard: Oops! I'm really sorry! Guess I didn't test carefully enough. New version coming soon... |
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<Max> 'Contact' uploaded by Max. |
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<Tom 7> heee, nice. Of course, this embedding hard-codes the solution rather than checking it by some mechanism. (I wish I had a name to describe such embeddings--maybe "extrinsic"?) The particular way it's encoded makes it easy to solve by looking at the alternate layer. Nonetheless, Kudos for your courage! By the way, it's pretty clear that an "intrinsic" 9-digit su doku (with checking mechanism) would not fit in the regular board size, since even this one basically maxes it out. How do people feel about increasing the board size? Are editors running into size limitations frequently? I'm not sure what I think... <SPAM> 'Japanese Escape!' uploaded by SPAM: My desperate try to make a working 9*9 sudoku. It works, but it probably doesn't look that good and is hard to understand. Other disadvantages are that it needs a huge board and that it only works for one solution (but that's not too bad, because there's ussually only one solution ;)). The puzzle itself is self-made, not taken from any book. It shouldn't be too hard for practised sudoku solvers (maybe I'll make a hard one soon). Hope you'll enjoy it! |
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<jeff> 'Playground2' uploaded by jeff: advanced playground |
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