Emily's playtest thoughts

knexer / auto-puzzler

A simple game about writing code to assist in solving puzzles, built to learn React.

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Emily's playtest thoughts #49

Open knexer opened 1 year ago

knexer commented 1 year ago

add an actual ending so it isn't an anticlimax to buy the last upgrade. This should be one last board, an extra jumbo large one, that is a hardcoded designed map where the mines make a picture or words
auto-restart should benefit from automation speed, but only if you win the board
auto-guesser could guess in a smarter way, e.g. adjacent to revealed tiles. Otherwise it basically has to hit a zero for it to make any progress. This could be configurable.

knexer commented 1 year ago

Also some other thoughts:

Interesting edge case-- there was a bomb that was completely surrounded by other bombs/walls. It was the last space left on the board, so it was clearly a bomb. Should autoclicker reveal that?
Tbh by like 1/2 of the way through the game I started just randomly clicking vs. trying to be smart about my mulligans It felt like any sort of thinking about minesweeper strategy would only slow me down
Thought autoclicker stopping when it had no work to do was a bug

knexer commented 1 year ago

Also from David: just finished all of the upgrades, mulligans seem super powerful for smol board, i just did that over and over again till the mid game where I had most of the upgrades then switched to large board, might want to make mulligans only lose 1$ instead of gain 1$ by default