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Enjoying this game

A topic by SpaceClick created Jun 08, 2022 Views: 161 Replies: 4
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Hello,

Just wanted to let you know that I am enjoying playing this "game" and was wondering if there was going to be any further development on it?  I see that it hasn't been updated in about 5 years, so I am guessing not.

The reason I put "game" in quotes is that there is currently no end goal, as you can just play forever without any end or consequence for playing badly.  In fact you could probably have a chicken pecking the squares and buttons and eventually they would have a huge amount in the bank :-)  (okay, this is exaggerating a bit, but I hope you understand what I mean).
 
Has there been any thought in to adding a goal?

One thing I was thinking is that you can be given a limited number of "Cash out/Restart" button presses (in other words, a certain number of new boards) in order to reach a certain bank account level.

Another feature that I think might be nice is to have the ability to click on a green box to reveal the number of surrounding green/red boxes. This should be limited, perhaps, to one per board, or to a certain number of times per game (if the game is set to a maximum of 5 boards to get to $2,000, perhaps you can use this feature three times during the entire 5-board session).  This can be helpful to avoid some of the "guessing" that would otherwise be required.  Perhaps also have the ability to do this on revealed red boxes as well...

Anyway, I was looking for fun variations on Minesweeper and this one was the only variation that was anything like this.  The only other variant that I found enjoyable were the few that allow multiple mines in the same box.  There are so many Minesweeper clones that just do the basic Minesweeper.  Seems like such a waste of resources to make the same game over and over.  Thanks for thinking outside the box and providing a new and fun experience!

Developer

Wow, thanks so much!  I had actually been looking at this game a few weeks ago and was thinking about revisiting it, so this was quite a coincidence!  I really like your suggestions.

Since you're enjoying it, I think I will go back and work on this again.  I am moving to a new game engine for it, still working on learning the ins and outs of the engine, so please bear with me.

Thanks again for your kind words and suggestions!  I'll keep you updated, maybe I'll do a devlog for the game or something like that.  Have a great week :)

That sounds great!  I look forward to seeing it!

Developer

Hi SpaceClick!  I've been working on updates to the game.  I'm on to the hint system right now.  Which do you think you'd prefer:

- Clicking on a revealed square will tell you which of the surrounding squares are positive or negative squares, or

- Clicking on a revealed square will tell you the number of surrounding positive/negative squares, but not which ones are which

Maybe there can be an option for both.  Right not I've added a way to buy Restarts with your winnings, the hints could be another thing to buy

Ah, nice!  I was just thinking that it would be the same as any other square where it revealed the positive/negative values e.g.: "+1/+1".  Maybe move the  money revealed to the top of the square so that this line appears in the same position as it does on all the other square (on the bottom of the square).  I'm not sure about having it be a single number that can mean either positive/negative (or both combined).  It seems like you might be moving towards a "buy" system which sounds cool, so maybe the first time you buy it, you get just the one number, and then if you pay a little more, you get that number split between the positive/negative numbers.