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Devine Lu Linvega

I was reading about sliding wood puzzles recently, and I had some time to kill this afternoon, so I made an implementation of Dad's Puzzler. A puzzle where you must bring the top-left block(2x2), to the bottom-left by sliding things around.
git.sr.ht/~rabbits/uxn-utils/t

23 May 2023 at 0:34 | Open on merveilles.town
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Devine Lu Linvega

This is the original instructions.
23 May 2023 at 0:35 | Open on merveilles.town
Derek Carroll

@neauoire nice job replicating the dashed border from the original!

23 May 2023 at 0:44 | Open on mastodon.social
Hunter Gough 🍦🌹

@neauoire My grandparents had one of these. I spent a lot of time playing with it as a kid.

23 May 2023 at 0:51 | Open on mastodon.social
Hunter Gough 🍦🌹

@neauoire maybe it's called "dad's puzzler" because "mother puzzler" was too provocative.

23 May 2023 at 1:11 | Open on mastodon.social
Lizbeth

@neauoire this is great, love the wood grain detail :) i use to have a plastic version of a more complicated one when i was a kid they’re fun

23 May 2023 at 2:45 | Open on merveilles.town
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benthor

@neauoire Ooh, very nice. I wonder what it would take to modify this to intuitively work with arrow keys instead. Unfortunately there are some states where it's ambiguous which block should move, e.g. to the right...

Screenshot of Dad's game in an ambiguous state
23 May 2023 at 10:54 | Open on chaos.social
Devine Lu Linvega

@benthor yeah the moving is a bit tricky, in this case you could either, move the left 1x1 block right, so it would force the other to move right.

Or mouse2/mouse3 to change the collision check order to anti-clockwise. Which is how I manage it.

23 May 2023 at 14:17 | Open on merveilles.town
ティージェーグレェ

@neauoire if you enjoy things such as that, I'm guessing you might also dig 秘密箱 「himitsu boko 」aka puzzle boxes (though a more literal translation would be: "secret box") from Japan which have some wonderfully elaborate work crafting.

23 May 2023 at 17:18 | Open on rap.social
dimanech

@neauoire Why you graphic so amazing. It is simple, but it really timeless. Genius!

26 May 2023 at 19:22 | Open on social.kyiv.dcomm.net.ua
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