Comments on: My hobby project: a social puzzle game developed in Silverlight http://igoro.com/archive/my-hobby-project-a-social-puzzle-game-developed-in-silverlight/ On programming, technology, and random things of interest Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:28:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Sunil Phani Manne http://igoro.com/archive/my-hobby-project-a-social-puzzle-game-developed-in-silverlight/comment-page-1/#comment-525 Sunil Phani Manne Mon, 04 May 2009 07:58:21 +0000 http://igoro.com/archive/my-hobby-project-a-social-puzzle-game-developed-in-silverlight/#comment-525 This is a very good game. Very addictive. Thanks a lot for the game!! This is a very good game. Very addictive. Thanks a lot for the game!!

]]> By: Igor Ostrovsky Blogging http://igoro.com/archive/my-hobby-project-a-social-puzzle-game-developed-in-silverlight/comment-page-1/#comment-487 Igor Ostrovsky Blogging Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:35:58 +0000 http://igoro.com/archive/my-hobby-project-a-social-puzzle-game-developed-in-silverlight/#comment-487 [...] the RSS feed to receive my future posts.Powered by WP Greet BoxIt’s now been a month since I launched RoboZZle, so it is a good time to reflect on how things went so far. It has been a great [...] [...] the RSS feed to receive my future posts.Powered by WP Greet BoxIt’s now been a month since I launched RoboZZle, so it is a good time to reflect on how things went so far. It has been a great [...]

]]> By: The first month of my online game | Igor Ostrovsky Blogging http://igoro.com/archive/my-hobby-project-a-social-puzzle-game-developed-in-silverlight/comment-page-1/#comment-486 The first month of my online game | Igor Ostrovsky Blogging Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:16:58 +0000 http://igoro.com/archive/my-hobby-project-a-social-puzzle-game-developed-in-silverlight/#comment-486 [...] My hobby project: a social puzzle game developed in Silverlight [...] [...] My hobby project: a social puzzle game developed in Silverlight [...]

]]> By: Igor Ostrovsky http://igoro.com/archive/my-hobby-project-a-social-puzzle-game-developed-in-silverlight/comment-page-1/#comment-485 Igor Ostrovsky Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:38:39 +0000 http://igoro.com/archive/my-hobby-project-a-social-puzzle-game-developed-in-silverlight/#comment-485 Timmy, your first two suggestions would be addressed (at least in part) by a call stack visualization. This is one of the most frequently requested features. In principle, it is simple to implement, but figuring out good UI is a little tricky. Chances are that I'll get it done pretty soon. And yes, I agree that the paint-tile feature adds a lot of complexity to the game. That's the main reason why I created a separate section ('Experimental') for these puzzles. Chances are that these puzzles will remain in a separate category (perhaps called 'Extended' in the future), so that I don't have to include these game mechanics in the tutorial, making it more complex. Thanks for your feedback, and let me know if you think of anything else while playing the game, Igor Timmy, your first two suggestions would be addressed (at least in part) by a call stack visualization. This is one of the most frequently requested features. In principle, it is simple to implement, but figuring out good UI is a little tricky. Chances are that I’ll get it done pretty soon.

And yes, I agree that the paint-tile feature adds a lot of complexity to the game. That’s the main reason why I created a separate section (‘Experimental’) for these puzzles. Chances are that these puzzles will remain in a separate category (perhaps called ‘Extended’ in the future), so that I don’t have to include these game mechanics in the tutorial, making it more complex.

Thanks for your feedback, and let me know if you think of anything else while playing the game,
Igor

]]> By: timmy http://igoro.com/archive/my-hobby-project-a-social-puzzle-game-developed-in-silverlight/comment-page-1/#comment-484 timmy Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:51:42 +0000 http://igoro.com/archive/my-hobby-project-a-social-puzzle-game-developed-in-silverlight/#comment-484 Hello Igor Awesome game, very addictive :) I would like to make 2 suggestions of new features. Disregard them if you think that they will ruin the game by "helping" to much. First, adding a history view to see what moves you have made so far in the puzzle. This would help to spot repetetive program behaviour which would help to better understand the solutions. Second, a visual queue would be helpful to better understand what moves are put on hold every time a recursion is done. I would also like to say that the experimental "change color" function is fun, however I think that this adds to much complexity to the game. Imagine a recursive call that keeps changing the exit condition by recoloring tiles?!?! That´s it, Back to the puzzles :) Regards timmy Hello Igor

Awesome game, very addictive :)

I would like to make 2 suggestions of new features. Disregard them if you think that they will ruin the game by “helping” to much.

First, adding a history view to see what moves you have made so far in the puzzle. This would help to spot repetetive program behaviour which would help to better understand the solutions.

Second, a visual queue would be helpful to better understand what moves are put on hold every time a recursion is done.

I would also like to say that the experimental “change color” function is fun, however
I think that this adds to much complexity to the game. Imagine a recursive call that keeps changing the exit condition by recoloring tiles?!?!

That´s it, Back to the puzzles :)

Regards
timmy

]]> By: Mirta Roma http://igoro.com/archive/my-hobby-project-a-social-puzzle-game-developed-in-silverlight/comment-page-1/#comment-483 Mirta Roma Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:48:36 +0000 http://igoro.com/archive/my-hobby-project-a-social-puzzle-game-developed-in-silverlight/#comment-483 Hello Igor! I love your nerdy-game and its RSS implementation! Bright idea! :* Mirta (BlackMamby on RoboZZle) Hello Igor! I love your nerdy-game and its RSS implementation! Bright idea! :*

Mirta (BlackMamby on RoboZZle)

]]> By: evko http://igoro.com/archive/my-hobby-project-a-social-puzzle-game-developed-in-silverlight/comment-page-1/#comment-481 evko Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:21:20 +0000 http://igoro.com/archive/my-hobby-project-a-social-puzzle-game-developed-in-silverlight/#comment-481 Igor, thank you for nice game! I unexpected what this project created with evening coding, respect! Igor, thank you for nice game!

I unexpected what this project created with evening coding, respect!

]]> By: Igor Ostrovsky http://igoro.com/archive/my-hobby-project-a-social-puzzle-game-developed-in-silverlight/comment-page-1/#comment-476 Igor Ostrovsky Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:25:13 +0000 http://igoro.com/archive/my-hobby-project-a-social-puzzle-game-developed-in-silverlight/#comment-476 @Felipe: Yes, minimum number of movements is another interesting metric that could add variety to the game. Thanks for the suggestion. @Felipe: Yes, minimum number of movements is another interesting metric that could add variety to the game. Thanks for the suggestion.

]]> By: Felipe Ledesma http://igoro.com/archive/my-hobby-project-a-social-puzzle-game-developed-in-silverlight/comment-page-1/#comment-475 Felipe Ledesma Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:12:00 +0000 http://igoro.com/archive/my-hobby-project-a-social-puzzle-game-developed-in-silverlight/#comment-475 Awesome game! It would be great if you also got a ranking or a score based on how good your solution was (e.g. number of movements). Awesome game!

It would be great if you also got a ranking or a score based on how good your solution was (e.g. number of movements).

]]> By: Barry Dahlberg http://igoro.com/archive/my-hobby-project-a-social-puzzle-game-developed-in-silverlight/comment-page-1/#comment-474 Barry Dahlberg Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:58:29 +0000 http://igoro.com/archive/my-hobby-project-a-social-puzzle-game-developed-in-silverlight/#comment-474 Right, now that I'm back on top of the score board I thouht I'd point out a little post I wrote with some thoughts on RoboZZle, you can find it here: http://www.genericerror.com/blog/2009/02/27/CanGamesTeachYouToProgram.aspx Right, now that I’m back on top of the score board I thouht I’d point out a little post I wrote with some thoughts on RoboZZle, you can find it here:

http://www.genericerror.com/bl.....ogram.aspx

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