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In our previous experiment we found out that just walking around and picking tiles and invalidating neighbours weren't enough and the Daniel Shiffman video and the Oskar Stålberg wave demo does allude to what we should have been doing, which was to invalidate and collapse neighbours and their neighbours and so on (or so I think) - like solving a sudoku puzzle - the more stable information there is about a cell - in case our starting cell, the more clarity we have about what our neighbours are and their neighbours et al. (Aside: maybe I should try making a sudoku solver 🫠)
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\n\n\nSo this experiment is a result of that revelation which in a way did happen half way through the last project and I didn't want to jump on to this before finishing that.
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\n\n\nLast week, I shared a video with a friend of mine that explained the Wave Function Collapse and that got me excited about procgen again! So I thought I'd go back into exploring WFC with the help of Daniel Shiffman's video linked above ✨
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\n\nThis is sort of a brute force approach to that; essentially a walker that fills neighbours and backtracks, so it does run into a bunch of dead ends and endless recursions so there are fail safes to stop that. Apart from that, it is slow as you will soon see. With the colourful tileset, you should keep the grid size small; but the other white and grey tileset should work fine even at 30x30.
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\n\n\nHere is a link to all the responses (also on the last slide of that above presentation.
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\n\nJigsaw is the digital version of the traditional jigsaw puzzle game, where player's piece together an image puzzle. The twist here is that you have video puzzles too. My primary focus has been designing new features, quality of life improvements, UI and UX design ideas and changes, content analysis, curation and delivery to name a few. Some of my work was focused around:
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\n\nTIle Match is a mix of match 3 and Mahjong. The objective for the player is to clear the board by matching 3 tiles with matching symbols to clear the board without filling up your rack which can only hold 7 tiles at a time. My initial duties were to write the MVP specs, mechanics and flows. Prototype core and possible future mechanics. Level generation, tuning and balancing. Coming up with new and interesting features that fit the light meta as well as constantly figuring out the content pipeline and level editor functionality.
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\n\nDestination Solitaire is a tripeaks game where player's need to match cards one higher or lower in value with a house card to clear the board. My work on DS primarily revolved around, creating an algorithm and prototyping the content and level generation for the game. After the core work was done, my focus turned to tuning, economy and new features. Some of my work was focused around:
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\n\nLost & Found At The Mall was a game made for Global Game Jam 2021.
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\n\nShamika Biswas (@thepototo_) | Art, Design, Writing, SFX
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\n\nYadu Rajiv (@yadurajiv) | Design, Programming, SFX
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\n\nYou can check out DoWrite here - https://yadurajiv.github.io/doWrite/
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\n\nSource Code - https://github.com/yadurajiv/doWrite
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