[snake_case]

Yeah, this is something I'm considering still. I've heard from a few users that they don't like the pieces being rotated at all, and some would rather have click-to-rotate to make it more difficult.

I might have to make this an option, but waiting to hear from more users on this before deciding.

[bryans]

It feels like the automatic rotation is a middle ground that isn't going to make either groups happy. It's not realistic enough for the folks who want manual rotation, and it's too realistic for people who just want to put the picture together (or are used to traditional digital jigsaw puzzles). So, I think either implementing the option to choose or sticking to one style would be the way to go.

Personally, I'd be happy with either method, but this middle ground hits an uncanny valley, and makes it too difficult to visually recognize which pieces have already been auto-rotated. It'll basically just encourage folks to click on every piece to start with, which is a lot of extra clicking.

[B1FF_PSUVM]

I'm not your target audience, I rarely try puzzles, but I went for the easy demo. With the auto-rotate I even finished it, probably would have quit without.

Perhaps five difficulty levels, have auto-rotate for the first two, and make the final two levels only available to winners of a third/fourth level puzzle.

[prismatix]

Another suggestion: Tabletop Simulator has a Jigsaw Join 2 add-on that is really great for doing puzzles. They allow you to rotate the piece by scrolling the middle mouse wheel while "holding" it.

[addandsubtract]

Scroll wheel only works for people with mice. Two finger rotating only works on mobile. I think something that could work for laptops (or anyone really) is a tap to rotate by 90°. The pieces only have 4 sides, so there's only 4 possible orientations, anyway. Should be a good option for people that want more of a challenge.

[qw]

I would actually want the opposite, where all the pieces are rotated the right way from the start.

Perhaps this could be a simple button that the users can choose to click instead of a configuration?

Another suggestion: It can be a bit hard to see the shape of pieces with a dark colour, on a black background. Perhaps you could add an outline when you click on the piece to make it clearer? I know we can switch between light and dark background, but the white background on a large screen can be a bit too much

[TheDudeMan]

More game options is generally not great. Especially if you want to have things like leaderboards. I'd say implement double-click to rotate and have puzzle size be the single dimension of difficulty. And maybe add an even easier option, as the current easy setting still takes a while.

[saboot]

I agree, it takes out a large degree of freedom from the puzzle. I like the double click to rotate idea