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> ...also try to make sure your first click always hits a hole. No need to muck with generation - first click always clears the clicked tile, then reveals.

pp19dd 6y ago
Thanks, I'll put this as an option when creating a new game. As for myself, I definitely like the feel of nailing a larger crystal of empty space and get that Pavlovian sound. What's funny is that most of the server code is already in place in dev, it's just disabled. I just need to carve some time to pick a direction and work on it. When a board is generated, there's already an algorithm that locates the center of the biggest empty space on a board, and if it exists, it assigns its address to game.clearest_tile. // first click, surprise! if( game.click_count === 1 && game.clearest_tile !== false ) { // sigh, this is too inelegant // game.board.private[payload.parameters.address].mine = false; // sigh, and this looks like garbage when shifted // this is what i get for picking a hexagonal board // game.shift_mines_to_center(payload.parameters.address); // todo: fixplz } Obviously I can just clear that tile on that first click and be done with it. Or, highlight the emptiest tile on game board render. But the shift_mines_to_center algorithm is something that needs tweaking.
vijayr02 6y ago
How long does it take to generate boards? An alternate approach would be to repeatedly generate the board after the first click, till the board has a hole under the click.
- pp19dd 6y ago
  Yeah, totally get your point. Generating one is inexpensive, maybe 1 ms to get it cranking. It's entirely possible that looping through untampered RNG combinations until a hole opens is more efficient than scrolling the field around. The algorithm to locate the biggest hole on a 1,200 tile board takes around 45ms and I'm stubbornly itching to use it one way or another. But I'll see what's a more sane solution over shifting fields.

pp19dd 6y ago

Thanks, I'll put this as an option when creating a new game. As for myself, I definitely like the feel of nailing a larger crystal of empty space and get that Pavlovian sound. What's funny is that most of the server code is already in place in dev, it's just disabled. I just need to carve some time to pick a direction and work on it. When a board is generated, there's already an algorithm that locates the center of the biggest empty space on a board, and if it exists, it assigns its address to game.clearest_tile. // first click, surprise! if( game.click_count === 1 && game.clearest_tile !== false ) { // sigh, this is too inelegant // game.board.private[payload.parameters.address].mine = false; // sigh, and this looks like garbage when shifted // this is what i get for picking a hexagonal board // game.shift_mines_to_center(payload.parameters.address); // todo: fixplz } Obviously I can just clear that tile on that first click and be done with it. Or, highlight the emptiest tile on game board render. But the shift_mines_to_center algorithm is something that needs tweaking.

vijayr02 6y ago

How long does it take to generate boards? An alternate approach would be to repeatedly generate the board after the first click, till the board has a hole under the click.

pp19dd 6y ago
Yeah, totally get your point. Generating one is inexpensive, maybe 1 ms to get it cranking. It's entirely possible that looping through untampered RNG combinations until a hole opens is more efficient than scrolling the field around. The algorithm to locate the biggest hole on a 1,200 tile board takes around 45ms and I'm stubbornly itching to use it one way or another. But I'll see what's a more sane solution over shifting fields.