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GridGame

Attempting to make a puzzle game based on a grid with interesting notions of adjacency. A learning project in terms of getting back into the web, learning Typescript, and actually trying to design a somewhat interesting set of rules that leads to a playable and generatable puzzle.

Game 2:

• Brings together a couple of ideas I have seen in other puzzle games, including "ice puzzle" type mechanics like the game Streamline (francoisvn.itch.io/streamline) and the idea of being an ever-growing objects from many games (like snake)
• Pros: there exist puzzles with nontrivial solutions that are both winnable and losabable (i.e reset/undo are necessary to be implemented as features, they are not intrinsic in the game)
• Cons: Likely will require a more artistic, hands-on approach to level design. Will look into auto-generating puzzles, however

Game 1 (abandoned):

• Ruleset 1: based on complex distance calculation; flaw -- unintuivie, many bad stable solutions
• Ruleset 2: can rotate (in a rubix cube like sense) the rows of the grid and the cols of the colors. flaw -- color space actually doesn't add to powers from the base soln, so no interesting puzzle can be made
• Ruleset 3: swap (grid row) with (color col); flaw -- slightly more inutuitive, but less so. Bad stable solutions when color cols are aligned to grid rows
• Ruleset 4: like (2), but with row/col swapped between moves. I think this is workable, but not intuitive, and not invertible which makes it hard to reason about
• Ruleset 5: can rotate (in a rubix cube like sense) a single selected row of the grid or a single selected col of the color grid. Advantages -- invertible, relatively intuitive. Will use two sets of controls (arrow keys for one grid, WASD for the other). flaws -- trivial strategy, align one side then the other, then tweak
• Ruleset 6 (random idea that went nowhere): Like 5, but each move applies to both boards?