Gregory's ServerI've got this “nonogram”/“picross” puzzle game on my phone, which has a few built-in puzzles, but the bulk of it is solving user-created puzzles. Obviously most of them are terrible, as user-created content often is, although the ranking system helps. However, there's this one user, Tattel, who is absolutely dominating their one specific niche:
- 15x15, black-and-white puzzles
- perfectly following the strict rules of making human-solvable nonograms
- exclusively drawings of birds
- not just “different poses of a generic bird”, but every picture is a different and specific species
- they're so good that even I, relatively bird-ignorant, can recognise some of them by sight
- there are dozens of these things
This is some Susan Kare-tier craft, and it deserves more recognition than being buried among ten-thousand user-generated puzzles in some free-to-play app in the Play Store.
I've got this “nonogram”/“picross” puzzle game on my phone, which has a few built-in puzzles, but the bulk of it is solving user-created puzzles. Obviously most of them are terrible, as user-created content often is, although the ranking system helps. However, there's this one user, Tattel, who is absolutely dominating their one specific niche:
@Screwtapello birb content is cool! My tangent though is the user-generated Lemmings puzzles in the mobile Lemmings game. It's a recently introduced feature, and whilst most are also crap, they have a ranking system (automatic afaik, based on how many players solve any given puzzle), and the five star puzzles truly live up to the Lemmings Mayhem tradition.
@Screwtapello how could I look at more of these? Would I need to get the app and if so what is the app?
@Screwtapello Ty (and @solderandchaos@mastodon.me.uk for sharing this! I've gotten sucked in over the past couple days. Really fun and cute :3
Feels a bit similar to Sudoku in the fitting-stuff-together mechanic, but it also has the "ooh that's clever!" elements of creativity and surprise, which crosswords have and Sudoku lacks.