Re: [Enigma-devel] level submission: minesweeper

[Andreas Lochmann]

Hi,

Brian Huffman schrieb:
> I have attached an updated version of my minesweeper level.
>
> I have added some features to make sure the level is solvable, and so 
> that the player is never forced to resort to guessing.
>
> - A check is done to make sure that all tiles are accessible from the 
> boundary, without crossing any tiles with mines. No diagonal moves are 
> necessary.
>
> - Mines are never placed along the outer edge. This allows the player 
> to uncover these tiles right away, which presents many more 
> opportunities for locating mines by skill, rather than luck. 
> Essentially this gives the player a lot more information at the start, 
> which makes the level a lot easier; to compensate I have increased the 
> number of mines.
>
> - I have added a hidden area, which has a mechanism to give hints. You 
> hit the st-timeswitch, it traps you behind a door for 10 seconds, then 
> it uncovers a random tile and lets you out.
Ah yes, works great :-)

Three minor things I still see:
- The colours of the fields should be stated somewhere
  in detail, in this dense mine field it might be important
  to know the number behind "deep-red". I suggest a row
  beside the playing area with the field-colors correspon-
  ding to y-coordinate or something similar.
  Whatever suits the design.
- In the "reachable"-function, "m == 10*7" should instead
  be something depending on the number of mines?
  Otherwise I didn't understand this function.
- I don't understand how you distribute the oxyds in the
  end. They should be reachable as well---or the mines
  have to be deactivated in the end.

Best Greets,
Andreas