×28/Nov: 1S added. Idea was basically stolen from the last DROD room I played
http://forum.caravelgames.com/showroom.php?roomid=43892
Gotta start somewhere, right?

29/Nov: 1E added: This time I stole the idea from this room from "The Tower"
http://forum.caravelgames.com/showroom.php?roomid=43395
Also, go play The Tower if you haven't yet, it's a really nice hold.

30/Nov: 2E and 3E added. Basically Fogel did all the work by finding an alternate solution to 1E. I just made two rooms enforcing the two separate solutions and will probably junk 1E when this is all over. Thanks Fogel!

1/Dec: 1S1W Probably this room will annoy folks who don't like snakes. I think it's fun though. Also probably broken. I'll also maybe go back and streamline the aesthetics if I plan to keep it. This was inspired by some rooms navithmastero made for "Collection" among other things.

2/Dec & 3/Dec: 1N1E and 1N2E. Missed yesterday so I added two rooms today. It'n not like there are any hard rules here so I'm going to go ahead and say that's okay. Just playing around with aumtlich and pickaxes here, nothing super interesting.

4/Dec: 2N1E a thoroughly uninteresting room. Based on chat recommendations I'm trying to see if I can make something with spiders. I don't think I'll end up using this one.

5/Dec: 2N2E is more a proof of concept than anything else. I haven't seen a published hold use quite this mechanic with time clones before. I'd like to eventually make a more interesting room with it.

6/Dec & 7/Dec: 2n3e is basically just a widget collection. I was trying to make something involving spiders again and this was all I could come up with. 1N3E is pretty much stolen straight from this room in The Tower: http://forum.caravelgames.com/showroom.php?roomid=43399

8/Dec 9/Dec 10/Dec: 4E and 1N4E were both attempts to make a room with the underlying theme of "use the same element for two different things." 4E was kind of a re-hash of some ideas I used in a contest entry, but I like the way that it ended up turning a standard trick on its head. Instead of multi-stabbing to make a tar blob cuttable, you multi-stab specifically to make it uncuttable.

11/Dec: 2N4E is an alternate version of 1N1E. Not sure which one I prefer (or if it's cheating to make a slight change and call it a new room.) 1S1E is heavily inspired by 2S from Stuck in the Muck.

18/Dec: 2S1E vaguely inspired by The Puzzle Catacombs. 2N was a response to Fogel's advice to "just plop something down and then try to think of something to do with it." I seem to have gotten the first part of that done at least.

21/Dec: 2N1W probably has the kind of snake manipulation that only I enjoy. 3N1W is just a bit of experimentation with pushing fegundos.

22/Dec: 4N1W and 3N. Two simple rooms playing around with movement restriction, mostly because I've never built rooms based on not turning your sword before. Turns out you can actually make not hitting Q or W with a dagger an interesting thing too.

26/Dec: 3n2w and 3n3w. Starting to slow down a bit, I'm going to try to make a whole bunch tomorrow.

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×Nov. 29: Two more rooms and also you can exit the first one. 1N is exceedingly straightforward, but messing around with the idea led me to 1N1E, which definitely seems more distinctive.

Nov 30: Another two rooms! One is more playing around with gel-to-mud, I'm not sure how well it worked out.
The other isn't very complicated, I just wanted to play around with the idea of having to connect fluff to a vent before the first spawn cycle. This room doesn't really have anything besides that mechanism. Could probably make it a little more compact.

Dec 1: Just one more room this time, in 1N1W. Basically I was just playing around and came up with this. Feels like it could be expanded on.

Dec 2: There was a break in yesterday's room, I've fixed that now. Also added another room in 2N.

Dec 3: None of you downloaded last night's room! Just as well, I made a small tweak to it because I realized after posting it that the token was available on the first spawn cycle. Adjusted things slightly so that doesn't matter, and made a new room in 2N1W. This was some playing around that I was trying to make into a puzzle of some kind, but I couldn't figure anything particularly good out so I just made it what it is. Maybe I'll be able to come up with an actual puzzle about killing an adder and giant while disarmed tomorrow, or maybe I'll take a different approach entirely.

Dec. 4: New rooms in 2N2W and 1S. Neither is particularly complicated. 2N2W is an attempt to mess around with the basic pattern of 2N1W, but I don't quite feel like I've got an actual puzzle with it yet.

Dec. 5: New room in 1N2E. I was trying to do something clever but couldn't think of a particularly good solution to it, so I ended up with something easy.

Dec. 6: Made 2N1E as a proof-of-concept for something Xindaris was asking about in chat, then made 2N2E as an actual hold-down-multiple-plates-at-once puzzle.

Dec. 7: New room in 1N2W. Originally this just had a time token, a soldier horn, and a mirror because I was curious if horns cancelled recordings (they do) and if blocking an entrance changed that (it doesn't), so I decided to attempt to make a room with those objects.

Dec. 8: New room in 2W. It's not especially great, I was feeling a little blocked so I attempted to make something out of the one vague idea I could muster.

Dec. 9: Made 1S1E. This is basically an intricate mechanism that, in this particular case, is easy to deal with. Might be able to do something more interesting with it if I give it some thought.

Dec. 10: Made 2E. First draft was impossible and I tried to think of something clever, but instead I just rearranged the tarstuff to make it possible. Still might be an interesting room to try to solve? I'll see if I can do a tricky puzzle version of it later.

Dec. 11: Made 1S2E, which is pretty much the puzzle I was trying to make when I ended up with 2E.

Dec. 12: Two rooms today! 1S1W is just a fairly straightforward aumtlich-and-mirrors setup, 1S2W is me designing a narrow corridor and trying to fit a puzzle into it.

Dec. 13: Slight tweak to 1N2E so it's not completely trivial, and a modification added in 1N3E. I was trying to make it more of a puzzle, but it didn't really end up as one.
Also added a room in 2S2W but it's just thrown together. Mostly I just wanted the corridor in the room above to lead somewhere.

Dec 14: Just one room tonight, probably. Added 2S1W.

Dec 15: Added 2S. Not feeling too great so I just threw something together.

Dec. 16: Added a bunch of empty rooms to fill out the rectangle. Actual new room is in 2N3E, it's a variant of 1N2E and 1N3E. This one might actually have managed to be a puzzle?

Dec. 17: New room in 3E. I wanted to play around with decoys and tokens. The room's kind of simple, but hey, maybe I'll come up with a tougher variant.

Dec. 18: New room in 1S3E. I don't think it's all that good, but I tested it and it's beatable. Maybe if you like goblin-herding you'll enjoy it.

Dec. 19: New room in 2S1E. I was playing around and this was the result.

Dec. 20: New room in 2S2E. Pretty similar to my level in Blind Race 3, though not the exact same concept.

Dec. 21: 30 rooms made! The latest is in 2S3E. It can be beaten, but the solution is a little on the obscure side.

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Nov 29: added 1E
Nov 30: added 1W
Dec 1: added 2N
Dec 2: added 1N1W
Dec 3: added 2W
Dec 4: added 1S
Dec 5: added 2N1W
Dec 6: added 2N1E; also made a room for EP!
Dec 7: made a room for EP
Dec 8: added 1S1E
Dec 9: added 1N1E (another Gunthro room)
Dec 10: added 1S1W (A Quest for Quiet)
Dec 11: added 2N2W (Fendik's Fortress)
Dec 12: added 2N2E (Gunthro)
Dec 13: added 1N2W (Fendik's Fortress)
Dec 14: added 2E (Fendik's Fortress)
Dec 15: made a room for EP
Dec 16: made a room for EP
Dec 17: made a room for EP
Dec 18: added 2S1E
Dec 19: added 2S1W (A Quest for Quiet)
Dec 20: added 1S2W (A Quest for Quiet)
Dec 21: added 2S (A Quest for Quiet)
Dec 22: added 2S2W (A Quest for Quiet)
Dec 23: added 3S2W (A Quest for Quiet)
Dec 24: started making hub for Gunthro Contest (7 puzzle-less rooms so far)
Dec 25: finished Gunthro hub (11 rooms total, 8 having mini-puzzles)
Dec 26: added 1N3W
Dec 27: added 3W
Dec 28: added 3S1W (A Quest for Quiet)
Dec 29: added 3N1W
Dec 30: added 4S2W (A Quest for Quiet)
Dec 31: added 5S2W (A Quest for Quiet)

×1E: Not sure if this is any good. I built this room, wasn't sure how to arrange the top and bottom (or if it's worth having both). Then I played the room and it turned out not as simple as I'd feared, but I probably still want to force the player to do the top and bottom differently.

1N: This might be a little tedious (might be better with 3/side), but I think it's not terrible. I got lucky with needing to keep the wubba off the arrows - I was like "oh hey, I can kind of break the room like this", then got to the end and I couldn't do it. Which I like in a room.

1W: I'm really happy with this room. It's tight, and it's fun. Definitely the best of mine so far.


2N: This room is pretty straightforward, and not too hard. Not sure I like it; it works as filler, though.

1N 1W: I like this room, but it might not be as tight as I like. I put a scroll in asking for suggestions.

3N: I wasn't sure that it was possible to make a room about squad horns that I liked and wasn't about blocking entrances, but I managed it! It shouldn't be incredibly difficult - if it was, that would likely make it tedious.

1S: A fegundo efficiency room! I don't think I've seen a room quite like this before, and I like it. It's quite tight, I think, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone managed it with a full spawn still remaining.

1S1W: I love this room. I'd love it even more if I could do it with two fewer rows of trapdoors, but alas, that seems impossible.

1S1E: I don't think this room is any good. I'd probably delete it in a regular hold. But hey, this month it's quantity over quality!

2S: A bomb maze, with a bit of a trick. Super happy with how this turned out.

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×2E: I like this room. I assume killing them with the sword is okay, since the green gates were replaced with yellow ones. Getting three aumtlich to cover 4 plates was a nice challenge.

3E: This felt a lot simpler, but was a fun variation.

1S1W: The fact that the serpents are out of phase is kind of mean. If you enjoy synching things up I guess this is a good puzzle, but it’s not the kind of thing I particularly enjoy. Everything seemed to be working as intended though.

1N1E: Break: decoy on conquer token. Surprisingly tricky, or I’m just awful with the pickaxe. Nice use of the pickaxe.

1N2E: Break: decoy on conquer token. This room seems really simple. Place decoys on plates, kill aumtlich yourself, and leave room. I’m guessing that’s unintended, since the aumtlich does nothing in my solution.

×1W: Neat room. I love seeing fluff used like this. Also, I didn’t know isolated tar mothers didn’t activate tarstuff gates. The solution is easy enough to execute provided you can think of it.

1N1W: Is the idea here to get the guard to try to stab the decoy but hit the bomb instead? I couldn’t get that to happen. I’m not really good with guards and oremites though. edit: Got it! I'm not really good with bombs and cabers too, apparently.

2N: I really liked this one. It seems impossible to clear at first, but you can slowly make progress.

2N1W: I used the powder keg as an obstacle and never used the hot tile (aside from accelerating adder shrinkage when it trapped itself with its head over it)

×1W: That was a neat room, but it felt like the solution was pretty precise. Fortunately it’s a fast room, and a room like this from time to time isn’t bad.

1N: What a (sometimes) helpful wubba! This room used the constructs in a pretty clever way. Not sure that the briar flood was necessary at the end, but I suppose that it enforces letting constructs regenerate. That briar flood makes it impossible to cross this room after clearing it.

1N1W: Not sure what difference it makes whether the central plate is a toggle or an open. Time limit feels pretty tight on this one. No checkpoints.

2N: A bit intimidating, but pretty easy if you just jump in and try things. No checkpoints.

×1E: I cleared this room without using the golem for anything. Just kill it and then angle your sword over the scroll to trap the gentryii in the chamber with the brain. On the bright side this means that the room would be possible with a brain there by default and no scripting.

×December 4: 1E (Pretty hard)
December 5: 1N (Maybe tricky and unfair?)
December 6: 1N1W (Easy)
December 7: 1W (Probably broken, also strange)
December 8: 1S1W (I don't know if solvable)
December 9: 1S (I need to stop making unsolvable rooms)
December 10 - 12: (Busy traveling: made rooms on 13th)
December 13: 2N (A little interesting), 1S1E (Kinda long-winded and tedious), 2S (Evil incarnate), 2S1E (Interesting room, possibly kinda hard).
December 14: 1S2W looks like garbage, but actually an OK room. Could be made harder.
December 15: 2S1E Not too hard, kinda simple.
December 16: Unorthodox, but easy without decoy limits.
December 17/18: 1N1E A crazy mess of timeclone tricks.

×4E: This is really tricky. Definitely requires some thinking outside the box. Great room.

1N4E: This was also quite tricky. Good use of the mirror. I was playing around with it a bit in the editor since my solution gave me an idea. Room is also possible with a goblin instead of the aumtlich, if the releasing pressure plate lights the end of the fuse. Couldn’t get it to work with a roach, sadly.

1N3E: I don’t know why my initial setup didn’t work. Brained giants can’t get through a “chess-knight” barrier but can figure out to walk around a simpler single-gap barrier? Also, the eastern exit needs a door sealing the room as well. And checkpoints.

2N3E: Didn’t really play around with this room.

2N2E: The time clone can finish this room on its own by just standing on the door. If the intended interaction is blocking the time clone by having a keg blocked by the potion that’s pretty cool, although with multiple kegs you could just as easily block one keg with another.

2N1E: Neat room. Seems a bit daunting at first, but is actually pretty easy once you try things out. I really liked this one.

1N2E: You fixed this room, so I tried it again. I think the new version is quite clever, although I didn’t need to freeze the aumtlich at all. Not sure if you were still intending that to be the interaction. I just used the aumtlich as an obstacle to force the decoys to stay put with their pickaxes inside each other.

×1S1E: Weird idea. Cool mechanism though if you can find a way to integrate it into a puzzle.

1S: Neat little room. Not too complicated, but could be an interesting way to enforce entering from a particular entrance.

2W: Not a bad little room. I think this one is more clever than you give it credit for.

1N2W: I like most of this room, but if the final part involves blind soldier manipulation I’m not interested in continuing with it. I hope I’ve overlooked something. I can’t get the mirror onto the pressure plate with the time token since I’m using it to block access to the wubba.

2N2W: Pretty easy. It pretty much solves itself.

2N1E: You mentioned this was a proof-of-concept of something. I don’t get it, but I assume this isn’t a room since it’s completely trivial.

2N2E: Not too bad. Some nice mechanisms here. I like the aumtlich/decoy setup and the way you can release the constructs whenever you want during the regeneration cycle.

1N2E: Pretty trivial if you make the mimic take the trapdoor path and hit the conquer token. Since you said this room was easy, I’m assuming that that was the intended solution.

2E: Pretty easy, but maybe I just guessed the correct solution the first time. It seemed like cutting the mud ring somewhere first was the most obvious starting point though, and then after clearing everything I could it was obvious where to use the second decoy. Clever mechanism though. I like the idea of puzzles where you can only make a single cut while the tarstuff is swapped before it returns to its initial type.

×3N: This room was weird. Interesting use of soldiers though. I like the concept, and am glad that it wasn’t too demanding in execution.

1S: Checkpoints. Interesting idea, but I can’t say I enjoyed trying to cut tar this way. Got within 8 turns of clearing it, but I wasn’t able to get it to be efficient enough, and once I started trying to be efficient it ended up being slower, so I clearly just don’t understand how to do this.

1S1W: Surprisingly easy once I realised that I could reflect the aumtlich beams with my sword without awakening the aumtlich.

2S: Is this possible? It seems like you need two mimics for this room, but you automatically take one out when you enter the room.

1S1E: This looks like a mess. I made some progress by building walls with eyes and stashing awakened eyes behind them, but I got to a point where I ran out of eyes facing the directions that I needed for my barricades and didn’t really feel like starting this room over.

×2E: Neat room. It wasn’t too difficult to get the lemmings to line up correctly, but the tricky part was seeing how you needed to stagger the lemmings in the first place.

×1W: Really cool room. I liked how the proximity of the temporal projection worked into this. What was the spear for? I didn’t need it.

1N1W: Kind of an annoying room. I never really cared for puzzles like this where I just need to arrange multiple monsters into a specific formation. Not too difficult though.

1N: Pretty nasty. Took me a while to see where I could even start this room. Managed to blow up two bombs but didn’t feel like spending more time with it.

1E: Hard room, but satisfying. I quite enjoyed how this one played out.

1S: I played with this for a bit. Couldn’t quite solve it. I think I had a solution that would work if one of the kegs was a mirror. I needed to be able to get around a keg barrier while hitting one of the kegs with my sword.

1S1W: Interesting setup, but it can be broken by not lighting the fuse right away. I was able to clear the room without taking the speed potion by doing this.

×
The spear was necessary to destroy the seep with only one keg left (by abusing some really strange behavior). I guess if you are clever about proximity, then you only need to destroy two of the broken walls and that's why you didn't need the spear.

×You have overlooked something.

The only soldier manipulation involves blocking off paths. That and the minor point of making sure his sword doesn't destroy the mirror or push it out of place.

Are you sure there isn't another way to deal with the wubba?

×2N2W:I was worried this would be about stalwart manipulation at first, but thankfully he's just a timer. This one was fun and pretty manageable. I only used two mimics.

2N1W: This was a lot harder for me to get any traction on. I have some ideas of how to go about it, but multiple mimic manipulation on trap doors while simultaneously dealing with brained hordes was a lot to deal with and I ended up skipping this one.

2N:This was an interesting idea for a room. I ended up just stumbling through it without much planning. It was a fun room though.

2N1E:Once you realize this one is all about move order it's not too bad at all to find a pattern that works. I like that the options are pretty limited here so that it's not overly punishing.

2N2E: Neat idea for a room. I remember you talking about this one in chat. execution is fairly straightforward here so this is all about parsing the room. The raft shuffling at the end could have been a bit shorter, but other than that I really liked this.

1N2W: Fairly short room, but it manages to use a stalwart in a way that isn't horribly annoying.

1N1W: It looks like this one is all about choosing the right entrance. I came in from the East.

2W: A very nice horde room. The 1 wide passages made for an interesting feel.

1W: One of my favorites in the level. The concept is super neat. I mentioned before but this room has a bit of a Boyblue feel to it. Definitely a keeper.

1E: I ended up liking this one a lot too. It reminded me a bit of some of the tricks used in Tar Horticulture Facility. Seems impossible at first, but once you start making progress with some tar babies you start to see what can be done. Very nice room.

1S1W: Haven't solved this one yet. I have everything but the last door (which seems like the real linchpin of the room.) Neat room so far though. I like rooms like this that require a bit of planning out ahead of time where things will be.

1S: Not as bad as it first appeared with all the skipper nests. I can mostly avoid them spawning by staying in shallows. Having to move the mirror to adjust the brain path-map was a mean trick. I love it. This one was another favorite.

1S1E: I haven't really taken a serious look at this one yet. At first glance it looks like it will involve timing builders to build tar at the same time? Sounds like it could be fiddly, but I'll give it a try.

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