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Hey, I bought this after the Ars review. Thank you for your work on it! I got well more than 99 cents of entertainment value out of it. I'm curious: did you ma
by zmj 15y ago
Hey, I bought this after the Ars review. Thank you for your work on it! I got well more than 99 cents of entertainment value out of it.
I'm curious: did you make the puzzles by hand or generate them algorithmically?
- CJefferson 15y agoThank you! Algorithmically. The game actually came out of a research project into generating and automatically ranking the difficulty of puzzle games. I have a long term plan to write a new game, with different puzzle games in it, using the same technique. The main slowness is a) Playing around with HTML5 and b) Figuring out how to make money off it (as with a webapp, you can actually lose a lot of money with hosting and servers, instead of the $100/year cap from Apple!)
- diba 15y agoDo you have the results of that research project available somewhere?
- CJefferson 15y agohttp://www.it.uu.se/research/group/astra/ModRef10/papers/Christopher%20Jefferson,%20Wendy%20Moncur%20and%20Karen%20E.%20Petrie.%20Combination,%20Automated%20Generation%20of%20Puzzles%20with%20Constraints%20-%20ModRef%202010.pdf http://www.it.uu.se/research/group/astra/ModRef10/papers/Chr... Is a preliminary paper, we have a longer one in the works.
- dev_Gabriel 15y agoCool. I'll wait for it (: