chrisawad
commented
2 years ago Checking in on this. I've been playing generated games for a while now with this code. Seems to work well. The games are harder than the very hard generated ones on the website which is a good thing imo. Out of about 100 uniquely generated games, maybe 16 were too hard but I'm averaging 3-6 min to solve the rest.
I do think it's worth adding "gen_num_empty_cells" to the prefs and defaulting to an easier level before release and more advanced players can increase it as needed. It's already reading from the prefs, so just need someone to add add it to the prefs layout and we're set.
Have a baby daughter and full time software gig, so my effort stop here. :)
ogarcia
Added GameGeneratorTask which generates a new game and imports it into the Generated folder. Also added the "New" button to the TitleScreenActivity which generates a very hard game and jumps you right into it.
The generation logic was designed by me and can be sped up with optimizations to the solver (which I am not going to do). It might take a few seconds on an the emulator, but its pretty fast on modern phones.
Did not add config to customize number of empty cells the "New" button generates, but feel free to add. Just have to add the config key called "gen_num_empty_cells" or maybe its better to have "Easy", "Intermediate", "Hard" and "Very Hard".
Right now its generating games with ~60 empty cells (roughly because we allow <60 even though we ask for 60 empty cells -- its best effort generation without having to redo the whole board which can take a long time and we're all about speed aren't we ;)).