Thursday, September 12, 2024

Proposal: Light It Up

Adminned at 13 Sep 2024 16:14:58 UTC

Add the following to “The Game Board”

Each Cell can be a Bonus Cell. Bonus Cells are publicly tracked with a gold background on the game board.

In the “Collect Match” atomic action, before the step “Set the Content of those Cells to Empty” add

For any of the selected cells that are bonus cells, increase the Puzzler’s corresponding stat for the content of that cell by 1, provided such a stat exists (i.e. if the content is a Cherry, increase their Cherries by one). Then that cell ceases to be a bonus cell.

Remove “positive integer” from “Turn Actions”

Update the cost of Rotation to be “1 coin”

Add a turn action called “Seed” with a cost of “Free, if this turn action has not yet been performed this turn. Otherwise 1 coin”. Give it the content

Randomly select a cell by rolling a DICE10 DICE10 and using the first value for the column and second value for the row. If the cell is not already a bonus cell, it becomes a bonus cell.

When performing this turn action, the Puzzler performing it may spend one or more stars to repeat the above process of randomly selecting a cell and turning it into a bonus cell an additional three times per star spent

Quorum Reached—Passes 4-0—Clucky

Comments

JonathanDark: he/him

12-09-2024 17:16:35 UTC

“performing it pay spend” should be “performing it may spend”, although we could probably fix that as a typo if you don’t get to it first.

Similarly, “and additional three times” should be “an additional three times”

Now for the real issue: “spend one or more stars” doesn’t indicate that spending more that one star allows the Puzzler to repeat the process for the same number of stars that they spent. I would re-word it with the intended limitation of “additional 3 times” to say “spend 1-3 stars” and then “repeat the above process a number of times equal to the stars spent” to make that clear.

Lukas:

12-09-2024 17:18:54 UTC

Last sentence: an additional three times *per star spent*, right?

Lukas:

12-09-2024 17:19:40 UTC

Oh wait JonathanDark just posted that too

JonathanDark: he/him

12-09-2024 17:29:58 UTC

No problem. It just highlights the need to make it clear: I thought it was “repeat once per star spent” and you thought “repeat 3 times per star spent”.

Clucky: Puzzle Master he/him

12-09-2024 17:53:49 UTC

yeah whoops idea is that stars are probably hard to get so you get 3 extra squares lit up if you spend the stars

Desertfrog:

13-09-2024 13:21:26 UTC

for

JonathanDark: he/him

13-09-2024 14:51:53 UTC

for

Benbot: he/him

13-09-2024 15:29:54 UTC

for