Quote from: Armani on November 27, 2025, 04:02:38 AMIncluding replays or not has nothing to do with whether we trust players or not.
lemoji. I can completely understand your reasons for not wanting to share solution replays up front, just to be very clear about that.Quote from: Armani on November 27, 2025, 04:02:38 AMwhat if ... we created a dedicated website where users could voluntarily upload all sorts of assets related to each level, including styles, solutions, music, previous versions of the levels and so on so that players could download as much or as little as they want.
Quote from: Crane on November 27, 2025, 10:18:44 AMI've made the most frustrating fix for you! V4 coming up.
I've tried to balance the arts and science too, although I have always been very focused on mathematics, physics and computing. It hasn't stopped me from doing some art and writing though.
If it was intended, then well played Crane - very clever!
Quote from: kaywhyn on November 27, 2025, 09:18:53 AMThanks for the compliment!Glad to hear you enjoyed my levels
You've also done a great job with getting the other levels in the collection pack solved and finding some backroutes in the process. In particular, I haven't seen your solutions to Icho's R1 and R2, but I'm surprised you managed to backroute them because when I pre-tested his 3 entries I managed to get the intended solutions to all of them. Nice finds!
QuoteAlso, thank you for the feedback of my R3 regarding the difficulty. It is a bit surprising to hear that was the hardest part for you, but as a level designer you can't always predict what parts will stump players and what parts they'll figure out quickly. More often than not, designers often underestimate the difficulty of their levels, which is easy to do because you as the creator know what's intended while other players who play them don't. Moreover, just only seeing the intended solution is what makes us designers blind to backroutes! This is where other players sending in solutions and feedback come in very handy. That's why authors often get testers for their levels/packs!
QuoteOh nice, another computer programmer on the Forums!There's plenty of programmers/coders in this community. I'm not one, but I did have to take a C++ computer programming course in my undergrad for my math major.
Quote from: Crane on November 27, 2025, 09:36:20 AMWell. this is an interesting one, because I too am a computer programmer and my claim to fame is that I'm a core member and contributor of source code to the Free Pascal Compiler, specialising in optimisation and assembly language, so you can't get any more logical than that! And yeah, I'm not too good at cryptic crosswords either, although I've managed to solve a few random clues, like "Bent coach stole confectionaries" (10 letters).
You forced me to use all of the skills this time tho!