This looks great! Is there any reason for me to wait for the Catalog release? Like online high scores or anything? Or am I just as well getting it here now?
When I did briefly think about it, I thought it sounded tricky to check every possible path from say, bottom left upwards, then move one along and repeat it - 1) I had no idea how to code that and 2) I thought it sounded quite intensive for the Playdate, though there's not that many squares so I guess it would be fine.
Thanks for the link, that's going to be an interesting read.
I’m not sure if Minesweeper was inspired by this but there’s definite similarities
I’ll be honest, I didn’t/couldn’t work out how to program in a check to make sure that it’s always possible to get through the minefield! But in my playthroughs it’s pretty much always been possible haha
Well, you’ve beat my high score on hard of 629 so well done there!
The Hello Playdate podcast also mentioned it as a new indie release in their latest podcast, it’s a great podcast that champions so many Playdate releases :)
No actually your explanation makes sense! I wasn’t even thinking about how the other modes are won after set times, my suggestion makes no sense :D the way you have it is perfect!
Really enjoying this, once I got a handle on it! Took me a few games to realise that I could use the crank to refill my shooting energy :D before that I was like "how I am I supposed to survive more than one level!"
I've noticed the performance degradation by the time I reached a depth of about 5 or 6, will remember to restart to fix that.
One time my ship got a huge laser boost which meant that when I was shooting enemies, they were flickering so much that they were invisible more often than they were visible. This was probably down to having so many lasers and enemies on-screen at one time, and the fact we're playing on a Playdate!
This is a fun game with really nice (horrible) visuals, but could you store the high score for each difficulty? It would give a reason to play each difficulty level :)
once you adjust for it’s not much of an issue but thanks for looking into it :) great game, I like how you can select from multiple levels so even if you’re stuck on one, there’s usually others you can do to earn stars to unlock more.
So I’ve played this again tonight and this time my lighting was better…when I played it first, the light was ok but not ideal and I think that’s what caused my problems.
Playing it under brighter light today I could see my player just fine :) I really like how careful you have to be with the controls, or else you go bouncing round the screen madly!
I really like this! It’s hard (which is good) and I’ve not finished it yet, but I get strong Dropzone vibes off it. One thing I’d like would be a more visible player character, it can be a bit hard to see.
