>> - One is purely me, I hate bright light and you made the game with 
>> simulated overexposure, even though white is just as white as always, it 
>> still annoys me.
>
> I got an e-mail about that very same thing. I didn't realize it would be 
> so annoying...

Leave it as an option though - I like it :-)

>> - from level 5 on they have all the same difficulty level. (unless very 
>> high levels have more light) As soon as you don't see an obvious answer
>
> Hmm, I tested it, and I don't get the same problem.

It took me a few goes to realise the board was randomly generated by 
"switching" a few squares before showing the board.  I always got stuck with 
a board with 2 lights on in the bottom row and cannot work out how to get 
them off.  If I am unlucky I get this on level 3 or 4.  After about 100 
random clicks it then looks solvable, but often I just restarted the 
program.

Oh yeh, there should be a button to start again at level 1.

>> At last you need more variation in the boards.
>
> How so? Boards with different shapes?

Yeh, or just label certain squares as "always off", which is essentially the 
same thing.  Or allow the "toggle 4 neighbours" rule to change, I remember a 
game once where clicking each square toggled a random (but constant) 
selection of squares on the whole board.  Was pretty fun.

> The difficulty does rise rather steeply. As I said previously, if enough 
> people like it, I'll improve on it. For now, I'll let it sit and collect 
> dust.

Yep, that's what always happens to my projects too :-)  Right this moment I 
am about 60% through writing a game, but now I have an idea for a better one 
which I want to start on right away!  I have no incentive really to finish 
off the first game.

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andrel wrote:
> your score will not be saved!
bug: the first level after you continue after completing all levels does 
not have 2 switches but many more.

btw I seem to be learning a bit at last. I recognize now a few patterns 
that I can solve. Now most of my levels are below 100 clicks. Total 
score last time 23700.

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andrel wrote:
> andrel wrote:
>> your score will not be saved!

It won't? <grin>

> bug: the first level after you continue after completing all levels does 
> not have 2 switches but many more.

Ahh, I *try* to fix these things, but there is always that one variable 
I didn't account for. I know why global variables are a bad idea now....

> btw I seem to be learning a bit at last. I recognize now a few patterns 
> that I can solve. Now most of my levels are below 100 clicks. Total 
> score last time 23700.

Not too bad!

~Sam

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> Yep, that's what always happens to my projects too :-)  Right this 
> moment I am about 60% through writing a game, but now I have an idea for 
> a better one which I want to start on right away!  I have no incentive 
> really to finish off the first game.

Wow, you reached a whole 60% of completion on a project before having 
another idea... *jealous*

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>> Yep, that's what always happens to my projects too :-)  Right this moment 
>> I am about 60% through writing a game, but now I have an idea for a 
>> better one which I want to start on right away!  I have no incentive 
>> really to finish off the first game.
>
> Wow, you reached a whole 60% of completion on a project before having 
> another idea... *jealous*

Yeh it's pretty unusual for me - although it's been stuck at 60% for the 
last few weeks now because I've been too busy.  I just need to implement AI 
and a menu system and it should be pretty much finished...  AI could turn 
out to be more than 40% though... :-)

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>> Wow, you reached a whole 60% of completion on a project before having 
>> another idea... *jealous*
> 
> Yeh it's pretty unusual for me - although it's been stuck at 60% for the 
> last few weeks now because I've been too busy.  I just need to implement 
> AI and a menu system and it should be pretty much finished...  AI could 
> turn out to be more than 40% though... :-)
> 

Last few weeks? That's nothing. Quote of a program FAQ:
"A GTK+ interface to jigdo is being worked on. Unfortunately, it's been 
80% done for over 1.5 years, so don't hold your breath for its release."

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>>> Wow, you reached a whole 60% of completion on a project before having 
>>> another idea... *jealous*
>>
>> Yeh it's pretty unusual for me - although it's been stuck at 60% for the 
>> last few weeks now because I've been too busy.  I just need to implement 
>> AI and a menu system and it should be pretty much finished...  AI could 
>> turn out to be more than 40% though... :-)
>>
>
> Last few weeks? That's nothing. Quote of a program FAQ:
> "A GTK+ interface to jigdo is being worked on. Unfortunately, it's been 
> 80% done for over 1.5 years, so don't hold your breath for its release."

Hehe, I made the unusual (for me) step this time to record each day what I 
had done.  Most of the work I did during August and the beginning of 
September.  I had a break at the end of September for several reasons, and 
then had another burst of progress during most of October.

Since then I have been much busier at work with several trips away and I've 
been trying to organise moving to a new apartment at the end of November, 
and I'm out of the country all next week for a training course!  I don't 
really see myself getting much more done in 2007...

Oh and the source for my game is only about 250K, so I guess it's pretty 
small compared to a GTK+ interface to jigdo, whatever that is :-)

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>>>> Wow, you reached a whole 60% of completion on a project before 
>>>> having another idea... *jealous*
>>>
>>> Yeh it's pretty unusual for me - although it's been stuck at 60% for 
>>> the last few weeks now because I've been too busy.  I just need to 
>>> implement AI and a menu system and it should be pretty much 
>>> finished...  AI could turn out to be more than 40% though... :-)
>>>
>>
>> Last few weeks? That's nothing. Quote of a program FAQ:
>> "A GTK+ interface to jigdo is being worked on. Unfortunately, it's 
>> been 80% done for over 1.5 years, so don't hold your breath for its 
>> release."
> 
> Hehe, I made the unusual (for me) step this time to record each day what 
> I had done.  Most of the work I did during August and the beginning of 
> September.  I had a break at the end of September for several reasons, 
> and then had another burst of progress during most of October.

Hey, I was planning to make some program to record what I was doing 
every *five minutes*. I usually look for some docs online or whatever 
and end up reading lots of totally unrelated things[1]. The popup saying 
WHAT ARE YOU DOING would remind me I was supposed to be doing something 
else.

[1] http://xkcd.com/214/

> Oh and the source for my game is only about 250K, so I guess it's pretty 
> small compared to a GTK+ interface to jigdo, whatever that is :-)

BTW, that's not something *I* am doing. Just a funny example I 
remembered of a "suspended" project.

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"scott" <sco### [at] laptopcom> wrote:
> Oh and the source for my game is only about 250K, so I guess it's pretty
> small compared to a GTK+ interface to jigdo, whatever that is :-)

GTK+ interfaces these days are XML-generated code which is parsed and built in
run-time.  They tend to be pretty small in contrast to code them directly pure
C GTK+ API.  Still, even the most heavy hand-coded C interfaces in GTK+ are not
as large as the GTK+ libs themselves.  Your application interface code will
always be in the K marks.

How about comparing the GTK+ lib to the DirectX or Windows.Forms libs instead?

btw, of course I couldn't run the game.

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> How about comparing the GTK+ lib to the DirectX or Windows.Forms libs instead?

If you'll do the comparison, add things like Java Swing to the mix (or 
better: SWT).

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