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Dev Log #2: Puzzle

The game is going smoothly, fixing lots of bugs that arise and making sure it’s very stable.
I won’t add a downloadable version as of yet - I’ll set up an Itch.IO dev page.
This is because I don’t have an official name yet for the game.

Puzzler does sound very great but a company is already using it for producing real puzzles.
Oh well :(

New features

V 0.2 includes:

• Different color for piece area and puzzle
• Jigsaw pieces
• Full screen or windowed
• Add FPS and graphs for debugging
• Add Statistics on the end page:
  • Total Time
  • Start Time
  • Total pieces moved
  • Total pieces completed
• Fix puzzle size depending on screen size.
• Fix font sizes depending on size of screen.
• Volume for sounds
• Make mouse pointers smaller
• Make HUD buttons for pause and quit

Jigsaw generation!

Oh boy, I worked on that real hard - I had few algorithms in mind and all of them were difficult to implement - the theory was ok, but the practice was hell so I abandoned it.

A good indication if you want to know you are in the right path - If things get too much complicated - it’s a good sign you haven’t thought of a more simple and elegant solution.

Simply Code! Not Complicaty Code!

You can see that it has a nice firework particle system!

Background color selector

I’ve added HUD to display - it includes a different ViewBound so it will be rendered on screen.

Settings

The 0.2V will include settings for full screen and audio.

Continuing statistics about the code:

Lines of code

Between dev logs I wrote new 1,553 lines of code (Without comments!)

Total : 79 files, 4237 codes, 126 comments, 740 blanks, all 5103 lines

Languages

language	files	code	comment	blank	total
C#	75	3,824	126	711	4,661
XML	3	342	0	17	359
Markdown	1	71	0	12	83

V0.3 Roadmap

0.3 will include:

• Image formats
• Multi-Select
• Complete Pieces with each other - Grouping
• Save puzzle for later solve
• Glow puzzle pieces - Chosen, completed, etc..
• “Hint” - Where you should put a puzzle piece.
• Glowing pieces by group “Group managment”
  • A special gui to edit titles for groups.

First I want it to be released as a nice Single Player so people can provide feedback for the actual experience.
Then the hard part will come - Implementing the networking layer - I’m planning Peer 2 peer and Central Server With rooms.

Thank you for reading and taking interest in my game :)
Will include a downloadable demo when I finish V0.2!!!