Here are two more ideas:
- simple error indicators (that say when a row or column is definitely wrong, for example the no-3-in-a-row or the counting rules are broken)
- a tutorial mode, using next-step suggestions with explanation for why that step can be made (I know my own implementation of it doesn't do an especially good job at the explanation, but it's something, and at least it can get you unstuck)

The first one is trivial to implement, but might not be as useful.
The second is hard to implement, but useful, and when you've implemented it you can build level-select on top of it (by banning hard steps at low levels and by calculating how hard a puzzle is in total so you can "aim" for a certain range of hardness for each level)

about the error thing: yeah for 3 in a row thing i could indicate, but that's about it... like 2 identical rows... should i indicate them as well?

for the tut: i'll implement that one later, i'm gonna keep it in mind and code my app so that i can add it later on

Well hey guys, i thought i might wanna make a topic about this project for if someone ever gets interested

so what i'm making is a binary puzzle game (look up: binary puzzle OR binairo)

so what i've got so far:

- premade levels -working
- number placement -working
- solution validator -working

planned features:
- main menu
- stage select (select size of puzzle (6*6 , 8*8 , ...))
- level select (select level of stage (probably 100 or more per stage))
- automatic level generator (if you don't have enough with premade levels)
- win/lose screen
- save progress

any more ideas?

interested in a piece of code?


btw: rewriting my whole program now, for function ordening, for better track of vars, more comments in code, to include the screen states, to use the special 1-touch function instead of the CurrentTouch )which is always on the state of 'ended' after release of the finger, which could lead to some code being ran more than once

well thx, i'll look into it later, now i'm just doing handwritten levels (only 3) of 6x6
to test if i can get the board set up etc

ooooh those, i like them i could do that... but first i'm gonna make couple of progs... and eventually if all goes well take them to the app store



but i already got my first question.. i lua, co-ordinates are from the left-bottom, is there a way to change that to upper left?

edit: i mean, isn't there an easy way, or do i just have to write my own fuction for it? like x coordinates are the same
but for y coordinates i'dd have to do pageheight - y - elementheight

so i'dd have the x and y of the upper left corner of an element

edit2: ok so on pc it is upper left, darn damned codea xd

edit3: well i started the binary puzzle thing, and it goes quite well
so far i only finished the 'mapping'
and the extra 'block placing' shouldn't be to hard
but that's for tommorow, gonna sleep now
and i might make a project topic for this project, but idk yet, first gonna see how it goes xd

yeah sorry for that xd

well, it could be any kind of app really...

and i think i'll go with the app store... because the app i make with lua can be converted to a app store app

as for now i started to work on a visual html/css editor...

Quote from: stevon8ter on July 22, 2013, 01:44:01 pm

lawl, well actually the best permanent solution would be: rewrite the whole search engine...

or upgrade the site so we can use the decent default search engine like we've always had

true xd

well i think the new 'slide-up' menu looks nice.. some more than just sound and lock-turning

hahaha well i meant in my opinion xD