You're welcome! It took a while over to New Zealand, but I'm glad it has arrived with no problems.

-- Simon

Go for OGG and PNG. I wouldn't compress anything else.

Nyargh, make things accessible first, only then small. OGG and PNG are reasonably accessible formats, even though they hold compressed data.

Especially with stray levels in single files, you don't save much space by compressing each file per se. The space-saving approach would be taring them all up into one compressed blob. Optimize for the appropriate metric, which isn't necessarily filesize.

-- Simon

Hi,

we haven't made a thread while I was in Vienna, 2015-09-14 through 2015-09-26.

I have spent the first week with Peter (ADmiral), seeing the town, and meeting some of his friends.

geoo and Ramond joined in during the second week. All 4 of us have slept at geoo's apartment for one day. We have played a ton of Tetris Attack, and reallife Zendo with my set of Icehouse pieces.



Left: Peter (ADmiral), right: myself. Ramon was sitting off the left, and geoo took the photo.

I have longer hair again than during summertime, when geoo was over in Göttingen. Akseli will be extremely happy about my choice of clothing, instead of being only very happy, as he is all the time.

The rule on the photo was by geoo:

Despite knowing the game for quite some time now, I didn't test thoroughly the single-color koans, and made rushed conclusions that every single-color koan was white. The game was eventually resigned, and I was angry about myself for not solving this. It's not a suitable rule for new players, but I should have been experienced enough to get it.

<SimonN> there's only one way to make up for this self-letdown -- play another game tomorrow

Of course we did. :-)

The black pyramids aren't used in Zendo. geoo liked to fidget with them to pass time.

-- Simon

Cellphone is probably the gadget with the widest range of use nowadays!

Interesting answers still. Thanks!

-- Simon

Maybe it's a corollary of the walker physics. But I'd have to examine the NL code before assuming anything here. L1 walkers entered solid terrain when turning, but not when ascending 1 pixel, IIRC.

I'm looking forward to many more strong discussions in IRC!

-- Simon

Proxima: Yes, agree with how L1 didn't want to be a pure puzzle game. There is nothing wrong with nostalgia. Subtractive game design and contemplating old games are different things.

namida: I feel floaters shouldn't exit in mid-air, but I can't make a strong argument, unlike for the fallers/splatters. Lix doesn't allow floaters to exit. Lix only allows lems to exit whenever they could alternatively be assigned builder, basher, miner, or the like.

-- Simon

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Replay overwritten without warning: Pressing [U] to save a replay overwrites any existing file with the same name. Here, data is lost, but no message box is generated! Replay saving might use a save browser widget anyway.

The default beahviour is to auto-name the replay files; there is an option in the config screen to open a save file dialog instead.

A popular solution for automatic naming is: If the desired file already exists, do not overwrite, but add -1 or -001 near the end of the filename, before the extension. If that exists too, increment to 2, etc.

Basically, I believe default options should never step on people's toes. Dangerous behavior must be desired first.

-- Simon