I have just uploaded my latest game called Swap’em! Winter Wonderland onto my website. It is a small puzzle game for the winter holiday season. Your task is to recreate an image by swapping two pieces of the image.
The game has autosave function so if you get tired you can just quit and continue with the same image later.
The images are AI generated. I am not a big fun of these AI systems but I would say these images look OK.
It didn't start with native resolution (which is here 2560x1440) but with 1280x720. Since you have disabled the choice, it was a little annoying to be able to change it (switch to Windowed and select it by hand, than back to Borderless)
But it looked pretty cool from the beginning, I didn't really cross check it, maybe you just display the resolution wrong, dunno
The preview window is helpful, but unfortunately it is placed in front of the puzzle and hides half of it. Maybe make it movable?
Another frustrating thing here is, depending on the pictures, it might be almost impossible to start puzzling at the correct position, that means, you have to move many parts tile by tile one position to the left, right, top or bottom. But I guess this is by design here, might be just my too low frustration level, so never mind.
I finished one puzzle at least, another one could end-up in my divorce, so better stop playing with fire
Which AI generator did you use for those pictures?
They look pretty neat!
Thanks for trying my game and for giving me some feedback! They are always welcome as they help us improve our games, apps, code and design.
The resolution that you see displayed in the settings menu has no effect on the resolution of the borderless or fulscreen modes. It is only for the windowed mode. This is why it is disabled by default, as the game starts in borderless mode on Windows and fullscreen mode on Linux. The 1280x720 resolution is the default value that you see after starting the game for the first time. Even if you play the game using 16x10 aspect ratio, (or 4x3 or 5x4) this is what you see. If the game covers the entire visible area of your screen when you run it in fullscreen or borderless modes, the game runs in the resolution of the desktop. As it should.
The preview window/help was designed this way. You display it when it is needed and hide it when you actually work on the puzzle. I might reconsider this design, especially for the main game in which the images are more detailed.
A good approach, which actually helped me, was to try to find what is in the middle of the image and place the pieces according to the vertical middle line of the image. Finding the left or right bottom corners or the pieces around the edges may also be helpful. However, the top edge may not be that helpful because there is usually sky covering that area. If there is a colourful character in the image, trying to find its position may also be helpful. I would say that after completing two or three images, you can get into it.
I did try some image generators but I was not satisfied with the results, so I turned to Pixabay.com. I managed to find these nice images there by NickyPe, but I cannot tell you which AI she used. She has some other nice AI generated images, and also many other users have uploaded very high quality AI generated images. It is worth looking around there.
neuronic wrote: Sat Dec 28, 2024 11:59 am
The resolution that you see displayed in the settings menu has no effect on the resolution of the borderless or fulscreen modes. It is only for the windowed mode. This is why it is disabled by default, as the game starts in borderless mode on Windows and fullscreen mode on Linux. The 1280x720 resolution is the default value that you see after starting the game for the first time.
You should probably better hide it instead of disabling it, I found that quite irritating.
Anyway, that's just nitpicking, as said already, very good work!
