Dictator Reverus
Level: Delver
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A little hold I made. This is only the first of however many levels I end up making and is so far mostly proof of concept. Unfortunatly, I have all the puzzle solving/making abilities of a mentally retarded fish with ADHD and brain cancer, and am way too lazy for my own good, so it may take a while.

Basically, you control a roach queen with no ability to fight and only 1HP, so you need to lure enemies them onto hot tiles and into explosions. To help with manipulating the monsters you can lay up to ten eggs which they treat as an obstacle, and replenishes the supply of eggs by eating already existing ones.

So, what do you think?

EDIT: Updated

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Since everybody keeps putting their holds in their signature, I decided to put my mod here.

Not sure if anyone actually clicks on these things though

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[Last edited by Dictator Reverus at 01-14-2009 04:44 AM]

Gordius
Level: Delver
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It's definitely an interesting use of the engine. I'd need to see more puzzles to know where you expect to go with this. If you have ideas for different sorts of puzzles, then this could be interesting, but too much more of what you have now and it's going to start getting tedious. For a title suggestion, you might try something like "Brood" or something longer that includes the word.

A few things:

You can lay eggs on top of one another.

The mechanics by which wolf spiders attack you aren't totally clear. It seems like they have an invisible sword that points in the direction they've just moved, but I'm not sure.

If lay an egg at a time in which the spider will move next to me, but not kill me, and then step away, the egg starts to grow after his move, meaning it grows under him instead of blocking him.

Does the guy who wants fangs do anything currently? Because I couldn't figure out how to collect or offer them.

Also, from the square leading to his hidden room, when you leave to the SE, the queen visibly moves south over the tree, then east. This doesn't happen with diagonal movement under other circumstances, but I don't know how you've modified things for the special character to cause such behavior.

Dictator Reverus
Level: Delver
Rank Points: 37
Registered: 11-25-2007
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1. Oops

2. They are set to attack when they are next to you and facing you, in the same way a goblin attacks you when you are looking away. This is mainly to make the sword useless.

3. The guy who wants fangs is just a satire of MMORPG quests.

4.Goes over a tree? I'll need to check that.

I need to make the secret room harder to find. As for where I am trying to go with this, I honestly have no idea. Like I said, I have all the puzzle solving/creating abilites of retarted fish.

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Since everybody keeps putting their holds in their signature, I decided to put my mod here.

Not sure if anyone actually clicks on these things though

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[Last edited by Dictator Reverus at 01-14-2009 03:03 AM]

Someone Else
Level: Smitemaster

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I like this. This is good. The sword can blow up bombs, however, I don't see any use for that (or way to get rid of that). Keep building!

Gordius
Level: Delver
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If they're set to attack when they're next to you and facing you, then I think you're checking for 'next to' in the wrong order, because they actually attack when they're facing you from one or two squares away. So if they are two squares away and facing you, they may be moving toward you, then attacking and killing you (except that they don't appear to actually move to the square next to you, but I know sometimes in a regular hold situation if you attack a monster that's going to kill you, you get slightly goofy looking results).

The Architest
Level: Master Delver

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Fun hold!

Keep working on it! This is exciting hold!
By the way "Will you marry me? H*** no! You fail!"

I would suggest these names :

Roach Life
Roach World/Land

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[Last edited by The Architest at 01-16-2009 02:13 PM]