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NEW VERSION!

Sorry for the long delay, this is pretty much finished now.
07-13-2012 at 08:12 PM
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I'll probably submit this sometime next week if nobody has any more comments to add.
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I have one simple comment to give right now - now that all the puzzles are in one level, I'd recommend you call the level something like "The Level" or "Difficult Level" or even "Puzzling Level" to indicate there's only just one level. I know there's precedent in Random Obsessive, but I don't think you want this "First Level" title to imply there's a second level of equally difficult puzzles. :)

Anyway, I've gotten past the initial rooms and have solved all the "easy" rooms in the hold, leaving the three rooms 1S2E, 1N2E, and 2W, which I can tell are very difficult rooms, probably in the 8 to 9 brain range. I just came to a particularly nasty realization for 1S2E which makes the room even harder than I thought it already was, so props for that. :)

I might have more specific comments later, but for now, compliments for making a difficult, but still relatively simple level set where everything's right in front of the player. I really like the rooms 1W, 2E and 1N for taking familiar ideas and making them require careful examination and a lot of DROD-playing technique.

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07-22-2012 at 02:15 AM
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Thanks for the comments!

I'll change the name of the level to 'The Level' in the next update.

Also, just to check for 1N, did you have to *spoiler*
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07-23-2012 at 05:20 PM
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da rogu3 wrote:
Also, just to check for 1N, did you have to
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Nope, I didn't even think of trying that, but I see how that might help.

Here's my demo; it might be an unintended solution or maybe just an example of good manipulation skills.

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Wow, that is indeed unintended, nice find. *1N spoiler*
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I can't think of any easy way to fix that so I will probably leave your alternative (and cleaner) solution in.

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07-23-2012 at 10:23 PM
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This hold has been released onto the holds board. Play it here

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