levelthirteen
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Rainbow doors are exactly the same as yellow doors except that they are a different color to enable denser packing of seperate doors.

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I could see what puzzle creators would gain from this, but I also see the problem of the orb (how would they be differentiated?) You can't have a yellow orb effecting rainbow doors, so you would have to have a new orb. This also doesn't create too many new puzzle abilities, just to pack in doors. So I voted "other".

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Rainbow doors could be affected by the same orbs -- that's easy enough to code up, in fact. But taking the time to draw up more door graphics, write more code, and with the side-effect of complicating the things the player needs to learn just to put doors next to each other doesn't seem worth it to me.

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The attached hold requires alternate color yellow doors to be nontrivial.

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I got a "corrupted file" message when I tried to import your hold levelthirteen.

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File: Snake maze screen.PNG (5.9 KB)
Downloaded 81 times.
License: Other
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Here is a PNG screenshot from the level editor. Can't get the .hold file to run easily.

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I think this problem can be solved by a much simpler change - just make diagonally adjacent doors be seperate doors. In fact, I can't see what this would lose - if you want to get the current behavior, you could do so by linking each door segment to the same orb.

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levelthirteen
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Note the shape of the door around one.

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Nothing will be broken if these are defined as 12 seperate doors that act in unison rather than a single door. Players will have a slighlty more annoying lightning storm, but that's it.


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eytanz wrote:
if you want to get the current behavior, you could do so by linking each door segment to the same orb.

More lightning, but same effect.

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It would be even more flexible if the diagonal door linkage were allowed/disallowed on a per room basis.

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I really can't see why that would be any better, and it would just make everything a lot more confusing for the hold designers.

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The behaviour should be consistent.. Making the doors behave differently in different rooms isn't consistent.

Anyway, the doors themselves doesn't have to be differently-colored for this to be possible. Adding an unique outline to all door tiles that are part of the same door would make it easy to see which is which. I doubt that will happen for 1.6, tho..

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