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You've given me full editing rights. Intentional?

The hidden, required room on level 3 is a bit of a cheap trick IMO, at least compared to some of the excellent puzzles you've got sprinkled elsewhere through your levels. A personal opinion maybe, but I'd prefer hidden rooms be used to reveal something additional to the observant player, rather than forcing the player to be observant. A reward, rather than a penance...

1N - Subtle (we might as well take that as a given, right? ) I would have liked this one more if it were completable from both entrances. I guess it's another variable, but the puzzle wouldn't be dimished with such a tweak IMO. It's OK for a puzzle to have two solutions...

1N1W - Easy to figure out what to do, more difficult how exactly to do it

1W - Evil. I was stumped for a *long* time on this. I figured I'd maybe got the solution, but you tricked me by making that column slightly too short That led to the actual, quite unique, solution.

1S1W - Tar sculpting There's a technique to it...

1S - Easy to figure out what to do, difficult to do it. This room was deeply frustrating. I like the idea of this room more than the actual practice. Snakes are *stupid*

1S1E - Forewarned is forarmed, this one was quite easy, and the length of the snake was a big clue. Snake wrangling was also an easier prospect, or else I'm just getting better at it (though I'm finding 1N2W immensely frustrating)

I've also done the exit room (I used the editor to remove the blue wall) Errr... sneaky

That's it, 4 rooms to go.

×Both of these rooms can be done with a single mimic placed on the orb that opens the yellow door to the roaches unless this is what you intended and the other bit is just a red herring.

×This room violates the "don't build rooms which rely on quirks of the game" bigtime. Not that this is a necessarily bad thing at the moment, but since we've been warned that the movement precedent rules may be changed in the future, this room may become unsolvable. Tweaking it so that the roach can always arrive if the orbs are in the right order, even if the tar mother moves first, will solve this.

×I agree with StuartK. This room is no fun at all, and not very interesting either - once you figure out what to do, it's all about trial and error, not puzzle-solving. You can't control whether or not a snake will decide to move in the wrong direction, except by synchronising with its internal clock, and you have no way of knowing how to do that in advance. At the very least, make the snake a few squares longer, so that if the snake decides to break with the pattern you can still correct instead of having to re-do everything.

×The way I see it, the room is as tightly timed as possible (of course) If it were changed as you describe, the player, with the current movement rules, would have an extra turn. This would go against the whole unforgivingly efficient level design ethos bibelot has going here.

Also, knowledge of the minutae of movement priorities is not needed in order to figure out how to solve the room (I have the knowledge that the room is completable, so how do I get the roach up to the tar fast enough to block its expansion?) If movement priorities do change, the room can be altered so it's as tightly timed as before. Fixing it now would seem premature to me.

×There are a few rooms in level three that require the manipulation of snakes in a fairly precise manner, and people keep commenting on how difficult it is to control their behavior. I did realize this when I was trying to solve the rooms myself. But, it does become easier if you remember the following: At any given time, the snake prefers either vertical or horizontal movement, which switches every five turns (it begins horizontal). So, since you've got an invisibility potion to work with, you can usually just wait around until you've got the exact preference you want. I figure if the threat clock gets put in, this will become a lot easier, because then it will tell you which five-turn segment you're in immediately.

×On level 3, 1N and 1N1W I just threw in because I wanted to fill those rooms with something. Besides the tar mothers in the rooms, they don't really fit in with the rest. I should also say that I don't really like level 2 2W, so that may disappear soon.

×With regard to hidden rooms, I usually hate them, because you're never looking for them. But I put that one in on level 3 because, first, I was giving editing rights anyway so it's not like it would be a secret, and also because it was placed in a very logical place, to fill out the 3x4 rectangle of rooms. Otherwise, though, I wouldn't have made it a secret.