I just updated the game to use a new shuffle system which ensures all puzzles can be solved! The game should also support tapping to slide tiles on mobile as well.
I has been brought to my attention that the way I'm generating the board/goal states means roughly half of the possible arrangements are unsolvable. My apologies!
I hope to fix this soon, but I'm not sure when I'll get the chance. I'm sorry if you spent a bunch of time in an unsolvable loop.
No, the board is randomized by swapping random tiles. I'm pretty sure now that all puzzles are solvable, though mid-board spaces do add a little extra mental barrier. I've run into 2x2 grids that I can't get but then a friend solved them very quickly, so I think there are just little niches our brains end up in that we can't shake out of. I might be wrong though!
Oops! Sorry about that. I thought there was a possibility puzzles with the space not on an edge/corner may have issues, but I wasn't sure. Do you know if the one you managed to solve had a mid-field space?
Thanks! The wrench/hint was a fun one. It takes quite a bit of CPU time to perform the full search, so you can't actually use the hint feature for a brief period after every move.
I barely grasp what this is, but it fascinates me. It also reminds me of an old DOS game called "Destruction Zone", though I suspect there are actually next to zero actual similarities.
There's the play timer which counts up from 0:00 (and only really makes sense in Timed and Sprint mdoes), but the time bar is the one that ends the game. It's constantly draining and gets refilled when you match things. The rate it drains at increases with each lap.
Great overall package! Solid art/music/gameplay. Puzzle progression feels good so far, even though I've only made it to the second set. The palettes changed more that I was expecting, which was a pleasant surprise. Lots of attention to detail in the manual as well. Well done!
Great work! Excited to see this coming to Kickstarter!
I see you already mention holding left + B to force the greyscale palette to really help the cutscenes shine. Perhaps you could look into tweaking the header to use one of the assigned palettes (probably 0x58 from X (Japan)) to do this automatically in future releases.
There are eight opponents in total. There isn't any way to return to where you were when you died. The game boils down to a race against the gradually increasing speed to see how far you can get before failing a jump. :)
