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First apologies and thanks are in order to bibelot and zex20913 both of whom I took ideas of their's and ran with.

Attached to this post is "Revenge of the Spirals" which has a few ideas I had for spiral themed rooms. I tried not to be too repetitive, but hey it’s room after room of spirals what do you expect? The layout could be better and there's nothing too hard puzzle wise, but don’t be surprised if you see elements from a few rooms here sneak into future holds of mine.

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And attached to this post is "Bride of the Arena". If you’ve played the first Arena hold you know the drill. I don’t know if the last room is solvable but there’s an exit just before it if you’ve had enough.

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-Joanna Newsom "Bridges and Balloons"

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I completed the last room of the Bride of the Arena, so it is possible. Now to tackle 64 of the little buggers...

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Attached to this post is "Revenge of the Spirals"

More spirals, not too much hack+slash. Puzzles fairly straightforward except in a couple of cases. Lots of running round in pointy circles.



I've got no further than Sence West in Bride of the Arena. It doesn't have quite the immediate appeal of the original. I keep going back to it though.

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bibelot wrote:
I completed the last room of the Bride of the Arena, so it is possible. Now to tackle 64 of the little buggers...

Wow, I was afraid it wasn't possible (hence the early exit). I keep trying to solve that room but my normal mode of attack doesn't seem to work in this room. You wouldn't have a demo you could upload by any chance would you?

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2E.

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×Through incredibly bad timing, I made this significantly harder for myself than I need have. I didn't trap the roach queens, and thus throughout the room I was being attacked from both sides (instead of things getting easier as I went) Quite fun that way, having to figure out when to retreat, and when to press on.

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×could do with another checkpoint at the bottom right. It's only towards the end of the spiral that the err... eyeball avalanche slows down. Fun idea for a room

I thought a couple of times that I should move that checkpoint, but somehow I never got around to it.


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I attached the demo from the first time I beat it (8W). I've been trying to get a cleaner demo, but I keep messing up, so this will have to do. I think you'll find it to be fairly entertaining...

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Very nicely done. I had wondered if it was possible to hide behind a queen or two, but somehow never got it to work. Now I've gotta work on getting my own victory demo- it sure wont be easy, even after seeing it done...

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its bearings on Cair Paravel. O my love, O it was a funny little thing to be the ones to've seen.
-Joanna Newsom "Bridges and Balloons"

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I finally did it. Here's my demo, if anyone cares. It's a minute longer in length than yours because my "swinging fingers" were getting tired after several attempts, but I managed to do 200 moves fewer than yours. I kept two collums of queens in the bottom right corner which helped cut down on the number of spawns.

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its bearings on Cair Paravel. O my love, O it was a funny little thing to be the ones to've seen.
-Joanna Newsom "Bridges and Balloons"

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Good dungeon, good architecture, fun for everyone. Keep up the great work!

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