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by derrak
73 days ago
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Wow! I really enjoyed this. The 2.5D rendering gives a lot of opportunities to visually obscure the insight that’s necessary to solve the maze. It makes me think that a good maze should have a “oh, duh” moment. There were a few times where the false assumption I had to resolve was very close to the starting point. Tricky stuff. And you designed all of these by hand? That is very impressive. How many mazes are there? The way I would start automating some of this would be to build a catalog of these visually tricky blocks that require the player to resolve a false assumption. Then I think it would be a matter of stitching these together in novel ways. Maybe the stitching procedure can be implemented by expressing a constraint system and solving for a stitching that has the properties you want. I’m on a touch screen and I would say that the movement is a little bit sensitive. Concretely this means I found myself… going in a direction I didn’t intend to. Maybe this is a skill issue on my part. I don’t have alternative controls to suggest and I probably don’t understand the mechanics of the movement enough to even suggest which parameters to tweak. Again, great work. |
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Initially, I wanted to create a maze generator. But I had no idea how to write it. Creating mazes by hand, I'm slowly learning how to make them work (I've gotten waaay better than I was at the beginning). So, perhaps in the future, a maze generator that generates a daily maze seeded by the current date. Idea is to start with a simple maze every Monday and gradually increase the difficulty over the week. But I'm getting a little carried away: the more I think about it, the more I don't know how to create the maze generator.
FWIW, it's MIT licensed and available here: https://github.com/tasuki/iso-maze
Wrt sensitive controls: not sure which version you played, but I just reworked the controls a whole lot to automove to the next junction when you stop touching. It took my LLM and me a lot of time, mostly because I was searching in the dark, not entirely sure what I wanted. The controls are by far the least legible part of the codebase for me!