Simon streamed Lix puzzles, Sun, 2024-06-16

[Simon]

Stream is over. lemforum/Hopeless: Metal City Mayhem and Las Ranas Hermanas, both still unsolved. I showed some bugs in the reworking towards the scissors button. Lots of things to do.

-- Simon

[Simon]

The UI bugs from the previous stream (Sunday, May 21st) are now fixed.

For the next stream: I'm still not sure if the scissors button is really the best UI. We'll see. The main point of the stream is to test the scissors button myself more. Maybe the levels are getting too difficult for your entertainment, I can't promise anymore that I'll solve anything.

-- Simon

[Simon]

Stream is over.

I spent another hour on Metal City Mayhem, haven't solved it. I think I've sunk 2-3 hours total into it so far, plus subconcious brainstorming between streams.

I solved Behind Bars in 1 hour and 20 minutes, minus a few side conversations with the stream chatters. Replay attached. I remember how I helped Proxima backroute-fix Behind Bars 8 (?) years ago. Since then, I've completely forgotten the solution. I re-solved it today from scratch.

Next, I think I'd like to work on alternate ideas for replay cancelling than the scissors button: More user options on how/when to cut or insert based on whether the tweaker is open or not. Maybe you always want to insert, or only when the tweaker is open, we'll have to see what good default options are. I'll post it all in the scissors button topic.

-- Simon

[Proxima]

Congrats Solution to Behind Bars is correct. I like the way you interpreted "behind bars" to refer to

Spoiler

the lix getting stuck in the top of the left chamber

...that had not been on my mind at all, but it fits perfectly!

[Simon]

Thanks for the feedback!

-- Simon

[Dullstar]

I thought I'd let you know this is a thing, but it's up to you if it's worth the effort or not: apparently, if you make a highlight out of a VOD, the VOD will still disappear after 14 days but the highlight won't; assuming they haven't changed anything about it since I tried it and just didn't update the system to delete the old highlights, as far as I know there's nothing that stops you from making a highlight that's just the entire VOD.

[Simon]

From the 2023-05-24 stream, I've highlit:
User Interface Design Ramblings: Scissors Button, Replay Editing (5 minutes, twitch)

Instead of highlighting entire streams, I'd rather summarize and post the replays here. But it's not a dilemma. If you want, I can start highlighting entire solving sessions to subvert the 14-day purge. Ramond did that for Lovely through Daunting.

-- Simon

[mobius]

It's already too late but I would appreciate the saving of the whole thing as I didn't even know about this session until now.

[Simon]

I'll livestream more singleplayer tomorrow, Sunday 18th, 17:00 UTC, which is 19:00 German DST.

We'll see if late Hopeless is too hard. Most likely, I'll jump around more Hopeless. Eventually, I want to solve Rubix's pack, Clamlix, and Nepsterlix.

-- Simon

[Simon]

Solved two Hopeless levels on yesterday's stream:

Devil's Right Hand
Lix Lies down on Broadway

Replays attached. Nepster isn't around, who else (geoo?) knows Devil's Right Hand to judge the solution? Lix Lies down on Broadway looks very much intended.

-- Simon

[Forestidia86]

Solution to Devil's Right Hand is different to both lemforum-replay-solutions.

[mobius]

Good job on Lix lies down; intended.

Devil's right hand; somehow shocked yet not really that's there's more solutions.. Still one of the hardest, if not the hardest level I've ever solved, and I no longer remember my solution. Could not solve it last time I tried some months ago after an hour or so.

[Simon]

Now live. Stream is over!

It was a short stream, 1 hour 30 minutes. I've played geoo's 3 levels for Level Design Contest 28. I've solved Frog Clog and Underground Club. I haven't solved Fast Food Forest yet.

-- Simon

[Simon]

Winter time is ideal for developing and playing games. Let's have more of it.

I streamed singleplayer Lix on Sunday, Nov 26th 12:00 UTC.

I'll solve more singleplayer levels: Lemforum Hopeless 2nd half, or, if that proves too hard, other Lix singleplayer packs (Rubix, Nepster, Clam). I have to create entries for the level design contest, but the contest rules forbid showing the levels in advance apart from sending it to 1-2 playtesters. Can't build a contest entry on stream. Thus, more solving on stream. Share your solution ideas in chat freely, unless you remember the exact solution.

I'm on the lovely early rhythm where I go to bed in the early evening and sleep until after midnight. But streaming in early European morning is bad for both Europeans and Americans. I'll wait until Sunday noon.

-- Simon

[mobius]

nice! thanks for the heads-up.

By chance, I've recently been feeling like puzzle solving again, so I might try some myself.