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I lol-ed when I realised that one level was effectively Microban I and that I had botched it in the way that I always botch Microban I.

figuring out the top right twist made me feel like the smartest space cowboy, not least because I totally failed to solve it yesterday 🚀

hint: where do the boxes (as opposed to the colors) belong in traditional sokoban.. have you moved them to their targets?

Loved it! The emerging deduction genre is one of my favorite developments in puzzle gaming, and I’m still jonesing for more

I have rolled your cheese, wrangled your caramel and now stacked your sticks. Are we making cheesecake on an open fire?

great stuff :)

Sokoperson bringing the fire

10/10 would 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 again

Very satisfying! I reached a point of contemplating some pretty elaborate solutions, but then it finally clicked. So it strikes the unusual balance of being harder than it appears then simpler than it seemed like it would be :)

Ah, good find! That adds a nicer quirk of having to get the block back in place vs realising you screwed it up 100 moves ago when you solved the 14 block room ;)

Ah, turns out that you can’t edit a comment to use this after turning it on

If it's any consolation, I only realised you could save a block in the room because I incompetently tried to do it for about 5 minutes instead of realising it was pointless :)

That was a rollercoaster! So much clever stuff packed into such a small space and it felt great to figure out the final trick.

I'll put it below the fold, so as not to spoil anyone (wish itch had spoiler tags!!) but you could put yet one more slightly mean sting in the tail

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Not sure if this wholly avoids other solutions, but by removing one square in the wall of the room with lots of blocks in it, you'd maybe force the player to preserve one of the 14 blocks in that room to fill the gap in the wall

Ah! Was able to suss it out without having to resort to rot13-ing. I'd foolishly decided a certain move wasn't possible for the first missing 2 and the second 2 required such a feat of manoeuvring that I laughed out loud when I finally got it to work!

I think it's a case of spending too much time thinking I was missing something surrounding that one block that has sightlines to the big room and the last room, instead of being confidently logical. 

This is such a cool puzzle!

I can reach the last room, but fall 4 short of being able to finish out, and I can't quite work out what I'm overlooking! Below the fold I've listed the blocks I'm generating out of each area in order, in case that makes tipping a bit easier.

3, 3, 3, 4 & 8, 5, 8 & 5, 7

I have defeated.. *checks notes*

DECAF BOLOGNA BAG, WAT?!

edit: revised anagram guess now that I'm playing it all official-like

Cabbage, Goat And Wolf?

Unless, that is, it's another hit number from Cow Goat Fleabag Band..

there seems to be two requirements for the win condition — if I'm guessing correctly then the one you're missing just requires you to do something very standard sokoban in the middle of the level.

The start of level 13 was a 10/10 fiddly marvel -- felt rather smart when I figured out how to do that one.

All killer no filler, it's just how NinaBirb rolls

It's always a good day when NinaBirb graces us with another puzzlescript banger :)

I enjoyed this! The puzzles are interesting and the mechanics keep coming thick and fast. My only minor gripe is that I'm not a massive fan of the scrolling screen. I didn't feel like any of the levels were so massive that they wouldn't have fitted on a single screen and, more often than not, it made the puzzles needlessly more fiddly.

In the words of Julius Caesar: I comin', I seein', I pushin'

Cool game! It gave me strong Microban vibes -- just tightly designed puzzles where every bit of movement space has some intentionality behind it.

Excellent Spookyban -- surprisingly tricky!

My uncle is a fearsome man with a bad attitude who's recently taken to muttering about mounts and coves and bans at family gatherings. My grandfather charged me with figuring out what's going on. So while my uncle was at crossfit, I secured entry to his home and conducted a thorough sweep. Pinned to his fridge, I found a peculiar document that appeared to be tracking incidences of combinations of these words. I must say I now share some of my uncle's concern. The mounts are intensifying and the coves and bans are increasingly outmatched. By my estimates, we may only be weeks from some kind of mountmount calamity.

Does anyone have a hint for Spire-22? I believe I understand all the rules, and if this were a problem involving coins or marbles without a grid, I know the approach I'd take. What I can't figure out is how to map that solution on to this 8x8 grid, to the point that I'm starting to wonder if I'm on the right track.

Spoilers below fold

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I'm assuming I've got to form a star shape? But I can't figure out a rotation that makes five lines. I'm operating under the assumptions:

- I've got to make five straight lines

- A line is 4 pieces in either a horizontal, vertical, diagonal, or knight-move configuration

- A line can't have more than 4 pieces, so a line of 5 isn't two lines of 4

- the gate indicates the number of additional lines require to pass, in this case 5.

All my goals are achieved, thank you!

That was great — love these single screen puzzlers that pack an extraordinary density of puzzles into a small amount of space :)

Predictably and completely brilliant considering the people involved. I thought the difficulty curve was spot on — not the sort of puzzling death march that requires you to bash your head on a level for days, but stuffed to the rafters with deeply satisfying and hard-won a-ha moments.

I felt C4 had a very Le Slo sorta vibe, so was pleased to see that was indeed a Le Slo level. And I was delighted to see the D7 mechanic finally surface after what-iffing on so many levels that by the time I reached D7 initially I didn't even consider it.

10/10 would slime again.

What finally did me in — and I made it past the video gaming war crime that was the bouncy maze — was the pirate bridge. If this was one pain point, I might have persisted, but it was the accumulation of them.

I've played pretty much everything you've released, and they're often outstanding in terms of design. There are some decisions on this one that I just don't entirely understand.. If there are sections that are going to pile up attempts (eg the surfing, the checkpoint races, the booster slaloms, etc) it's super irritating to have a multi-second flying saucer interlude and then get placed quite far away and, in the car sections, to have my car almost always pointed in the wrong direction as if it's going to drive off screen.

Maybe it's just not for me, but I'll still look forward to the next one :)

v peculiar! I definitely cheesed it when I played it last night by walking off the castle on to the flag area without having to use any of the boulders, but now I'm trying again it seems impossible to do so?

Brilliant design! The last level especially was a banger. I think 11 might have some unintended overly simplistic solutions, but understandable when the core mechanic insists I screw with the level design ;)

The whole thing is very clever, but the last level was super-satisfying to finally figure out. Looking forward to the next NinaBirb brain workout!

This is really scratching that detective itch (the post-it board is a great mechanic) and I'd love to be despatched to various apartments to solve all sorts of mysteries.

My only issue is that I'm not really sure how to advance past the next bit in the absence of some sort of feedback. I feel like I have enough information to place everyone at their events, figure out what happened to the competitors at event one, and make some inferences about two and three. Will the game advance once I've got everything in the right place?

That was cool! Thoughtfully designed, deceptively complex old school block-pushing with a nice difficulty curve.

I got there in the end, but only when my brain had fully embraced the wrongthink.

All hail the David Lynch of Puzzlescript :)

Quickly and delightfully went from SML golf to FML golf, but I holed out in the end ⛳️

Up to the orange squares, I thought the precision was hard-but-fair. There's a surprising amount of subtlety in the controls and I was eventually able to make my ascent largely repeatable. With that said, I do think you should offer a way to survey the pachinko-style drop that precedes accessing the entrance to chapter 4, otherwise the randomness of your first interaction with it just feels a bit unfair.

Once I got to the orange squares, I just found it impossible to get the timings repeatable. To the point that I'm wondering if the precision required is either outside of my physical abilities or outside the technical limits of puzzlescript on OSX Chrome. I ended up screencapturing that section with my inputs displayed on screen and hit the first tricky part once in 8 or so attempts. Looking at the inputs frame by frame, I can't really see what was different about the time that worked.

https://file.io/3m08wrJGkqQm

All that said, I thought this was v cool and was technically impressive :)

Instant puzzlescript classic! So many things to love — the ingenuity, the twists, the puzzle design, the accumulating mechanics, the fact the crowd gets excited when you produce some iconic sporting moment — but the thing that delighted me the most was that I had to throw puzzlescript target-looking things.

100% would participate in this ancient sport again 🥏𐃆🏌️

To clarify the scope of the puzzle: the pink block has to remain on the left and the blue block on the right, and it can't ever enter the 1-square wide tunnel or you will get trapped. The problem you're really trying to solve is how to move the block down once you've got it above its target.

If you weren't hologram-proof on that level, what would you do solve it?

Is there anyway to achieve the equivalent of the above using what you've got? 

Last proper level was 🔥

This is v cool and I'm looking forward to working my through the whole game. One thing I did find myself yearning for so far though is that Super-Meatboy-style instant restart — the gameplay is very fast-paced and when you're going for a flawless run, you want to get into that flowy  state where you die, restart and go again with no delay. Perhaps there's a design decision I'm overlooking, but I feel that the hold-to-restart and the level-start countdown both work against that and make the game feel more stop-start than it could do.

Ah -- just a joke about the delightful ubiquity of that one level from David Skinner's microban level set. It's like 'The Lick' in Jazz music and crops up all over the place in sokoban games. Which I think is testament to its design. I just thought it was cool that all of the novel mechanics built that level within the larger level.

Hello darkness my old friend
Skinner's come for me again
Because this level's so small seeming
yet its boxes defy all my scheming
And the movement that can solve it's still a strain
Always in vain, that's just Microban One