I was really enjoying this. The puzzles are actually pretty challenging and really satisfying to finally get them.
But I finally got completely stuck on level 36 - I couldn't find any way to move anything in a way to even get started. So I went to refresh my browser to see if anyone was talking about that level in the comments. Hit Ctrl+R.... and completely reset my progress instead of refreshing the page. Rough choice of shortcut key there. I notice that's not documented so maybe it's a default part of the engine being used? In any case, I don't know if I can be bothered going back through the first 35 levels again. But good game and enjoyable puzzles until that happened.
Interesting! Ctrl+R is indeed reset in TIC-80 but it shouldn't delete any save progress (e.g. when I try it right now the progress stays). Maybe some weird bug in in the engine or some setting your browser had coincidentally clear it?
To use it, just launch that page and check the puzzles you want completed in your save file. Exit that page, and when you reload the main game, the progress should be there.
Oh, cool thanks! Interesting that you couldn't reproduce. I tried it again - finished a couple levels and hit Ctrl+R again, and again lost my saves. I'll do a little more testing around in different browsers etc when I've got some time, see if I can narrow it down.
Edit - actually just tried again, and my progress stayed. Okay, I'm not sure what happened. If I see it again, I'll try to figure out the reproduce.
Loving this! Having some trouble on 39 and 44 (40-43 were relatively quick!).
Taking your cue and using rot13 go describe what i've attempted:
39: cerggl trahvaryl fghpx, v'ir zrffrq nebhaq jvgu fgnpxvat obkrf, svthevat bhg qvssrerag jnlf gb cbfvgvba gurz fb gung gur yrsg snpvat obk raqf hc bhgfvqr ba gur yrsg snpvat fvqr, chfuvat obkrf hc ntnvafg gur terl jnyy vafvqr bs gur obk gb zbir nebhaq, ohg ubarfgyl whfg ab cebterff.
44: v'ir pyrnerq gur K naq urneg (gubhtu xvaq bs jbaqrevat vs v nz fhccbfrq gb qb fbzrguvat orsber gung), naq vg frrzf gur bayl ivnoyr fcbg gb ghea bss gur ubyr ol gur qvnzbaq vf oruvaq gur tngr, ohg v pna'g svther bhg ubj gb erfphr gur 'bss' obk sebz gurer. boivbhfyl v pna'g chfu vg onpx bhg. v'ir gevrq gb znavchyngr gur cbegny fb v pbhyq chfu vg bagb gur bss obk naq fjnyybj vg gb ab ninvy. unir nyfb gevrq gb fbyir ol zbivat gur cbegny ba gur svefg fperra gbjneq gur oyhr pvepyr tngr, ab qvpr. ohg v thrff gy;qe v'ir ng yrnfg svtherq bhg ubj gb pyrne bhg gur k naq urneg tngrf.
Great job getting so far already! This is not an easy game.
Yeah those are both very tricky puzzles. 39 because it's very cramped and requires some good Sokoban and spatial reasoning, and 44 because the lynchpin is tough.
It's hard to hint because they're both pretty involved, but:
Hints for 39:
Gel sbphfvat ba fnivat n fvatyr funcr. Bapr lbh pna qb gung, vf gurer n jnl lbh pna rkgraq gung grpuavdhr gb gjb funcrf? Naq gura guerr?
Lbh arrq nyy gur fcnpr lbh pna trg. Vs lbh qba’g unir rabhtu ebbz va n yngre fgrc, vf gurer n jnl gb cbfvgvba guvatf va na rneyvre fgrc gb svk gung?
Vf gurer n jnl gb hfr n cbegny gb chg gur fgnegvat cbegny va n zber snibenoyr fcbg?
Hints for 44:
Since you're a little farther in this one, I'll give some more direct hints:
Lrf, gurer vf n jnl gb erfphr gur bss oybpx sebz oruvaq gur tngr, ohg vg'f n irel gevpxl zbir.
thanks much! i'll dig into these soon, but that latter hint on 44 is def something i was wondering and glad to have the nudges in the right direction, and similarly on 39 super helpful to know what the basic strategy i'm looking for is ( and I had accomplished bullet 3 on 39 so glad to have figured that out :) )
edit: whfg tbg 44--shaavrfg guvat, v unq abg erfrg gung chmmyr bapr, v jnf fhecevfrq gb svaq gurer unq orra gjb K'f! gung cyhf lbhe uvag naq v ernpurq gur oernxguebhtu cerggl dhvpxyl. irel sha yvggyr chmmyr.
I am having a hard time with some of the levels that have a hole in the floor... like Backup (18) and Errata (20). Is there a trick to these holes I'm not getting?
Good question! I don't think there's a specific unintuitive trick around the holes. The walls that pop up work the same as the holes (the only difference being a wall is created rather than a hole) so if you can solve level 4 you basically know everything you need to know about holes.
Gah.. I can't even see how to start 18 without going over the hole, and even then I'd need to steer each 'key' symbol over that point to get them to their 'keyholes'.. EDIT: Ok, of course, I'm forgetting all that I've been learning!.. Still stuck with how to get all the pieces in the required end position though!..
Damn, the solutions are so devious but so obvious when you get them! This game is going to take me a year at this rate.. love it.. kinda reminds me of Riko
Yeah, it's tough! Maybe I could introduce an in-game hint system. Need to think about it a bit. I have a day job so I can't dedicate all my time to this game and it takes a while to write good hints.
In terms of getting stuck, if you've given it a good shot I would suggest skipping ahead. Maybe something in a later level will trigger some understand that will help you with the previous one.
One thing that would be kind of cool is being able to use the mouse to mark the ground with some pen/brush tool. It would really help dealing with recursive portals.
I am very impressed with your neat puzzle design. And the best part is the puzzle elements are quite simple but are capable of great level design. I liked the game very much!
Thanks!
I’ve been able to do #23, but I’m still kinda stumped on #22.
Honestly, the game gets rather challenging around that point, I haven’t been able to solve most of the puzzles after #21.
Regardless, it’s an incredibly unique puzzle game. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a puzzle game use teleporters/recursion as adeptly as your game has. It makes to excited to keep playing on!
Also, would you mind giving me the hint for #34 “Hidden”, please? Thank you.
Tough to write hints for these! Basically no content is "locked" in this game, so playing through the levels or getting stuck is just part of the experience. I don't want to be too explicit because seeing the answer won't be nearly as satisfying as arriving there in some way.
That said, I do plan on recording a walkthrough video at some point and maybe I'll come up with hints for all the levels and have an optional in-game hint system. Not sure yet!
Seems like I've reached the limit of my smarts/ingenuity/patience at around lvl. 20.. 22 has got me totally stuck too.. Read your hints and yeah, I can get the right and centre into the RH portal but can't see how to get the left 1 into the LH portal or the contents of the other out of the centre island.. ?!.. EDIT: and yet I just got lvl. 23 reasonably quickly (15 mins?) which you consider tougher (with the aid of your hints admittedly)..
I know this is old, but: have you been able to figure out 22? I just finally got it after leaving the portal in the middle island bridge instead of taking it all the way up to the 1
Yeah this had a longer development cycle than most of my games (since the puzzles took so long to make) so when I got stuck on puzzle design I'd add some flair!
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I was really enjoying this. The puzzles are actually pretty challenging and really satisfying to finally get them.
But I finally got completely stuck on level 36 - I couldn't find any way to move anything in a way to even get started. So I went to refresh my browser to see if anyone was talking about that level in the comments. Hit Ctrl+R.... and completely reset my progress instead of refreshing the page. Rough choice of shortcut key there. I notice that's not documented so maybe it's a default part of the engine being used? In any case, I don't know if I can be bothered going back through the first 35 levels again. But good game and enjoyable puzzles until that happened.
Interesting! Ctrl+R is indeed reset in TIC-80 but it shouldn't delete any save progress (e.g. when I try it right now the progress stays). Maybe some weird bug in in the engine or some setting your browser had coincidentally clear it?
I hacked together a save editor real quick. It's available here: https://gate.itch.io/ghost-save-editor?password=ghost-save-editor
To use it, just launch that page and check the puzzles you want completed in your save file. Exit that page, and when you reload the main game, the progress should be there.
Oh, cool thanks! Interesting that you couldn't reproduce. I tried it again - finished a couple levels and hit Ctrl+R again, and again lost my saves. I'll do a little more testing around in different browsers etc when I've got some time, see if I can narrow it down.
Edit - actually just tried again, and my progress stayed. Okay, I'm not sure what happened. If I see it again, I'll try to figure out the reproduce.
Now to figure out 36...
Soooo good !
Loving this! Having some trouble on 39 and 44 (40-43 were relatively quick!).
Taking your cue and using rot13 go describe what i've attempted:
39: cerggl trahvaryl fghpx, v'ir zrffrq nebhaq jvgu fgnpxvat obkrf, svthevat bhg qvssrerag jnlf gb cbfvgvba gurz fb gung gur yrsg snpvat obk raqf hc bhgfvqr ba gur yrsg snpvat fvqr, chfuvat obkrf hc ntnvafg gur terl jnyy vafvqr bs gur obk gb zbir nebhaq, ohg ubarfgyl whfg ab cebterff.
44: v'ir pyrnerq gur K naq urneg (gubhtu xvaq bs jbaqrevat vs v nz fhccbfrq gb qb fbzrguvat orsber gung), naq vg frrzf gur bayl ivnoyr fcbg gb ghea bss gur ubyr ol gur qvnzbaq vf oruvaq gur tngr, ohg v pna'g svther bhg ubj gb erfphr gur 'bss' obk sebz gurer. boivbhfyl v pna'g chfu vg onpx bhg. v'ir gevrq gb znavchyngr gur cbegny fb v pbhyq chfu vg bagb gur bss obk naq fjnyybj vg gb ab ninvy. unir nyfb gevrq gb fbyir ol zbivat gur cbegny ba gur svefg fperra gbjneq gur oyhr pvepyr tngr, ab qvpr. ohg v thrff gy;qe v'ir ng yrnfg svtherq bhg ubj gb pyrne bhg gur k naq urneg tngrf.
Great job getting so far already! This is not an easy game.
Yeah those are both very tricky puzzles. 39 because it's very cramped and requires some good Sokoban and spatial reasoning, and 44 because the lynchpin is tough.
It's hard to hint because they're both pretty involved, but:
Hints for 39:
Hints for 44:
Since you're a little farther in this one, I'll give some more direct hints:
thanks much! i'll dig into these soon, but that latter hint on 44 is def something i was wondering and glad to have the nudges in the right direction, and similarly on 39 super helpful to know what the basic strategy i'm looking for is ( and I had accomplished bullet 3 on 39 so glad to have figured that out :) )
edit: whfg tbg 44--shaavrfg guvat, v unq abg erfrg gung chmmyr bapr, v jnf fhecevfrq gb svaq gurer unq orra gjb K'f! gung cyhf lbhe uvag naq v ernpurq gur oernxguebhtu cerggl dhvpxyl. irel sha yvggyr chmmyr.
Nice game. Love it
13 is confusing
Couple hints for 13 (decode with rot13):
I am having a hard time with some of the levels that have a hole in the floor... like Backup (18) and Errata (20). Is there a trick to these holes I'm not getting?
Good question! I don't think there's a specific unintuitive trick around the holes. The walls that pop up work the same as the holes (the only difference being a wall is created rather than a hole) so if you can solve level 4 you basically know everything you need to know about holes.
Gah.. I can't even see how to start 18 without going over the hole, and even then I'd need to steer each 'key' symbol over that point to get them to their 'keyholes'.. EDIT: Ok, of course, I'm forgetting all that I've been learning!.. Still stuck with how to get all the pieces in the required end position though!..
Damn, the solutions are so devious but so obvious when you get them! This game is going to take me a year at this rate.. love it.. kinda reminds me of Riko
I am loving this game, but I could really use a walkthrough... this gets really challenging!
Yeah, it's tough! Maybe I could introduce an in-game hint system. Need to think about it a bit. I have a day job so I can't dedicate all my time to this game and it takes a while to write good hints.
In terms of getting stuck, if you've given it a good shot I would suggest skipping ahead. Maybe something in a later level will trigger some understand that will help you with the previous one.
One thing that would be kind of cool is being able to use the mouse to mark the ground with some pen/brush tool. It would really help dealing with recursive portals.
any hints on how to do level 10?
Hints for level 10:
(use rot13 to decode)
I am very impressed with your neat puzzle design. And the best part is the puzzle elements are quite simple but are capable of great level design. I liked the game very much!
Fun game! Any advice on how to do #22 (and maybe #23 as well)?
Ah yeah, tricky ones!
(use rot13 to decode the hints)
Hints for level 22:
Hints for level 23 (tough level!):
Thanks! I’ve been able to do #23, but I’m still kinda stumped on #22. Honestly, the game gets rather challenging around that point, I haven’t been able to solve most of the puzzles after #21.
Regardless, it’s an incredibly unique puzzle game. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a puzzle game use teleporters/recursion as adeptly as your game has. It makes to excited to keep playing on!
Also, would you mind giving me the hint for #34 “Hidden”, please? Thank you.
Tough to write hints for these! Basically no content is "locked" in this game, so playing through the levels or getting stuck is just part of the experience. I don't want to be too explicit because seeing the answer won't be nearly as satisfying as arriving there in some way.
That said, I do plan on recording a walkthrough video at some point and maybe I'll come up with hints for all the levels and have an optional in-game hint system. Not sure yet!
Hints for 34:
(use rot13 to decode)
Seems like I've reached the limit of my smarts/ingenuity/patience at around lvl. 20.. 22 has got me totally stuck too.. Read your hints and yeah, I can get the right and centre into the RH portal but can't see how to get the left 1 into the LH portal or the contents of the other out of the centre island.. ?!.. EDIT: and yet I just got lvl. 23 reasonably quickly (15 mins?) which you consider tougher (with the aid of your hints admittedly)..
I know this is old, but: have you been able to figure out 22? I just finally got it after leaving the portal in the middle island bridge instead of taking it all the way up to the 1
how did you find it solved on the level 23
Been playing today and absolutely love this game, so many cool ideas in it 😊👍❤️
oh my word level 15 😂 🧠📤📥
Ha ha, no kidding.. I'd been getting thru them ok then that one stumped me for days but opened it up this morning and got it first try..
One of the freshest little puzzle games I recently played :)
im stuck on level 3, but its a really good game so i dont mind
I love this game! It took me a while to figure out level 4 but nonetheless it was a great level. Awesome game design and cute puzzles :>
When's the walkthrough getting on YouTube?
Stuck on level 4, but the graphics, the game and level design are so amazing! Totally love it :3
Hints for level 4 below:
(use rot13 to decode them)
that was a good puzzle :-)
Stuck on level 9.
Hints for level 9 below:
(use rot13 to decode them)
Yeh I got it thanks.
The little flairs in this game are really cool! I like the ‘level complete’ effect and the way stuff bounces in when you start the level.
Also, some of the puzzle design in here is really clever. I haven’t gotten very far yet but I really enjoyed level 4.
Yeah this had a longer development cycle than most of my games (since the puzzles took so long to make) so when I got stuck on puzzle design I'd add some flair!
This Game is amazing.
In the first level I still not figure out what I just do. And after playing more levels it just suddenly open my mind. Amazing.
Glad you're enjoying it! Thanks for the kind words :)