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Islands In The Sky (+6)

After about a year and a half of staying away from the editor, I've decided to take another go at creating a few rooms. This is far from complete, but I'm a sucker for feedback, so I'm submitting it to the Architecture board in this form, small, but completable.

It contains a couple of my favorite rooms updated to JtRH from my small hold released only on the Architecture board, "Cerebella Archipelago," in addition to a couple of decoy puzzles. It's five rooms total and very linear, but I certainly hope to add more as time goes on. But anyhow, here's a taste.

Edit: Version 2 attached.
Edit: Version 2 actually attached now.
Edit: Version 3 attached. A year and a half later.

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08-17-2005 at 11:48 PM

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Re: Islands In The Sky (+1)

Nice. I remember the Cerebella Archipelago hold, which was pretty challenging. I'm quite a fan of small-sized puzzles.

One bug - in 2N, you should make the eastmost square non-mimic-placeable. I don't think that was there in the original, and I just checked and its solvable without it.

3N1E is very cool - but interestingly, every single move of yours is forced. So you have no choice but to solve it. On the other hand, it still felt very cool solving it

08-18-2005 at 12:28 AM

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Shoot. I knew I'd do something dumb like that. I left out a very important element in the final room for testing purposes. I'm updating the downloadable hold. Thanks for pointing out that bug for me, btw.

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08-18-2005 at 05:14 AM

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Re: Islands In The Sky (+1)

Excellent little hold. I found it easier than Cerebella Archipela, but that may be because I'm a better player now, plus the availability of undo. It's also partially because decoys are easier to keep track of - you don't have to account for them moving when thinking several turns ahead.

I haven't seen the previous version so I don't know what changed in the last room, but it still was a relatively easy one. 2N1E was the only room that gave me serious trouble.

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08-18-2005 at 12:40 PM

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Re: Islands In The Sky (+1)

Loved it. Please make more rooms.

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08-19-2005 at 03:58 PM

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Re: Islands In The Sky (+1)

This is is a really, really good hold. o_o The puzzles are all hard to figure out, but easily redoable once you know how.

08-19-2005 at 09:52 PM

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Re: Islands In The Sky (+1)

I have attached an updated version with a few more rooms and a slightly altered 3n1e, although the solution(s) is/are basically the same.

Feedback encouraged!

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09-02-2005 at 12:53 AM

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Re: Islands In The Sky (+1)

....what did you change, exactly?

09-03-2005 at 11:17 PM

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Re: Islands In The Sky (+1)

>_<

I totally submitted the first version two different times. Version 2 is actually up now. Thanks for the catch.

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09-04-2005 at 12:44 AM

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Re: Islands In The Sky (+1)

Insane wrote:
okok nvm
i beat that room by cheating (only hitting one orb and placing the second mimic as close as possible to the brain so when the bottommost door opened i just had to walk south once and that was that (i escaped through the green door))
but now im stuck on the room after that and i feel guilty cus i didn't do that room like you said.

-Insane

Ooh, you found an unintended solution. Thanks for pointing that out. I'll be fixing that by placing a few more trapdoors in the next version. Also, don't feel guilty for skipping around in the editor. It's anyone-edit right now so I can get feedback like yours on the difficulty, etc.

As far as the room in question goes:

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Another clue, if you're still stuck:

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09-07-2005 at 07:21 PM

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RoboBob3000 wrote:

Insane wrote:
okok nvm
i beat that room by cheating (only hitting one orb and placing the second mimic as close as possible to the brain so when the bottommost door opened i just had to walk south once and that was that (i escaped through the green door))
but now im stuck on the room after that and i feel guilty cus i didn't do that room like you said.

-Insane

Ooh, you found an unintended solution. Thanks for pointing that out. I'll be fixing that by placing a few more trapdoors in the next version. Also, don't feel guilty for skipping around in the editor. It's anyone-edit right now so I can get feedback like yours on the difficulty, etc.

As far as the room in question goes:

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×The trick is to start with the long islands first and leave the short islands for last. That won't get you the entire solution, but it's the state of mind you need to be in.

Another clue, if you're still stuck:

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×The potions don't need to be collected in order. Diagonal movement is your friend.

Guess what ive been doing the whole time :lol

my problem is that i can't acces some potions without turning my sword.
and because of the bombs i always lose at least 1 mimic since i have to turn my sword.

-Insane

09-08-2005 at 11:41 AM

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Well, re: potions/mimics

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09-08-2005 at 05:23 PM

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I'm preparing to submit this to the holds board. In a moment I'll update the hold in the first post with very slight changes to 1n1e in addition to the flavor text.

Any final thoughts from anybody on this one?

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02-03-2007 at 10:11 PM

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