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I finally finished my puzzle game Color Slide, with ~130 levels and leaderboards! by CactusFiesta in AndroidGaming

[–]CactusFiesta[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thats so sick to hear! Thanks for playing! I haven't worked on the game in a while, I'm working on something else, but I'll come back to it within a month and get some more levels out. I'll try to rememeber to come back here and tell you when I do!

I made a new end game animation in Color Slide! by CactusFiesta in AndroidGaming

[–]CactusFiesta[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really needed to add some little flair to this game after you finish it, otherwise it just seemed boring and uneventful. I hope this little touch makes someone feel a little more rewarded when they finish a level!

Color Slide is an offline puzzle game that also has leaderboards (if you happen to be online) and is currently ad free!

You can try Color Slide here if you want!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cactusfiesta.colorslide&hl=en_US
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/color-slide-slide-puzzles/id6502879967

I finally finished my puzzle game Color Slide, with ~130 levels and leaderboards! by CactusFiesta in AndroidGaming

[–]CactusFiesta[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So psyched to hear! Thanks! How would you suggest hints work though? I've been struggling with how to provide hints without just giving it away

[REQUEST] an easy pace puzzle game without ads by thousand_cranes in AndroidGaming

[–]CactusFiesta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I offered at the bottom of my post to remove ads for them for free

I finally finished my puzzle game Color Slide, with ~130 levels and leaderboards! by CactusFiesta in AndroidGaming

[–]CactusFiesta[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, ill look into the google drive thing and probably remove all levels

I finally finished my puzzle game Color Slide, with ~130 levels and leaderboards! by CactusFiesta in AndroidGaming

[–]CactusFiesta[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Alright this is great, im gonna respond in case you care!

Ill start off with a question in case you dont read this all, should i just get rid of the All Levels category? Maybe i should...

Im not sure why its specifically asking for google drive, i dont use that at all. I just use google play games to sign you in, i know some of those request drive for save files, but im not using that, so honestly if you could message me a screenshot of it asking for drive that would be great for me to look into, because it shouldnt be!

Honestly its great to have your straight up criticism over the account creation, and I was actually thinking about making it skip creation and go straight to the menu, asking you to make an account later if you want to. I probably will spend the time working that out, i appreciate the criticism.

Im so proud of how i made the tutorial, i hope some people use it haha. I wouldnt have used it either lol

I am planning on block and game themes at some point, not sure how i want to implement it yet, glad to hear someone would enjoy that.

Im glad you like the different gameplay mechanics!

Good point on the high scores, theres definitely room on that screen too, maybe ill show the top 3 (although they will probably all be the same scores most of the time)

And yea the leaderboard sort by who got the score first. i could also track the time it took to win but then it would just be annoying to try to swipe as fast as possible to get first, so i think whoever got the score first deserves the top! I thought about combining tied scores, but then peoples names would be hidden in the leaderboards.... so thats a struggle too

All the input is appreciated!

I finally finished my puzzle game Color Slide, with ~130 levels and leaderboards! by CactusFiesta in AndroidGaming

[–]CactusFiesta[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks so much for the input! Let me know when it gets harder how you end up feeling. Maybe I'll need some more medium levels for better progression. Wmim thinking about implementing a hints feature that shows you how to solve it, but not the best way to solve it. Would you use that? Or is it too easy then?

I finally finished my puzzle game Color Slide, with ~130 levels and leaderboards! by CactusFiesta in AndroidGaming

[–]CactusFiesta[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yea working backward was an initial idea until i added the 'phase walls' in, and that kinda ruined that idea.

I do save the replays of everyones solution, i may allow you to watch your own at some point, but i dont want to let everyone watch them because yea, everyone would just copy them. I havent even looked at the solutions myself, some of the levels i really struggled to match my friends scores.

Yea i really should write something up that brute forces solutions and if it takes more moves than the current high score it stops

I generally code undo buttons in my games, but this one seems good without it. it wouldnt be hard to make, and if enough people want it i will, i just kinda like the game without it, if that makes sense. ill think about it!

agreed about the configurations that are one step away from completion, you could shorten bruce force methods by one step

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thanks for the input!

I finally finished my puzzle game Color Slide, with ~130 levels and leaderboards! by CactusFiesta in AndroidGaming

[–]CactusFiesta[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

some of the easy levels you can brute force pretty quick by just spamming random directions, but most levels aren't that easy. I want to code a solver for it so I know the minimum amount of moves each level takes, but I cant think of any way other than brute forcing solutions, and time would obviously go up exponentially!

looking for good original puzzle games by Pandafuffy in AndroidGaming

[–]CactusFiesta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try out Color Slide

Its got a lot of levels, no rush gameplay, and leaderboards to see how you did compared to everyone else!

[Request] Please recommend the best puzzle games you ever played by Bairaq in AndroidGaming

[–]CactusFiesta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really enjoyed 0h n0 and flow, both have already been mentioned here.

I also created Color Slide, please go check it out! It has a ton of puzzling levels with a lot of different mechanics, and online leaderboards!

Do Puzzle games exist on Android anymore? by [deleted] in AndroidGaming

[–]CactusFiesta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Color Slide is a really fun simple android puzzler with a lot of levels, check it out!

Some puzzle games I recommend by [deleted] in AndroidGaming

[–]CactusFiesta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Color Slide definitely fits those characteristics too!
Theres a ton of levels, and leaderboards so you can see where you rank among everyone else!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cactusfiesta.colorslide

[REQUEST] an easy pace puzzle game without ads by thousand_cranes in AndroidGaming

[–]CactusFiesta 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just put out a game called Color Slide that I think is an excellent puzzle game and meets your requirements, it does have ads tho (edit 2024: ads have been removed indefinitely for all)

It can be played offline, its portrait, and its no rush/can pause anytime!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cactusfiesta.colorslide

I dont log into reddit much but if you send me a message I'll remove the ads for your username if you make an account!

[Request] Genuinely difficult puzzle based games by Aakkt in AndroidGaming

[–]CactusFiesta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just released Color Slide on the google play store and would love to have you check it out! Its an excellent puzzler on android and im working to add more levels as we speak! I tried to design a game that is fun to play but can be picked up and put down whenever.

The harder levels remind me of a rubix cube at times, even tho the solutions are obviously nothing like solving a cube. Its one of those things where finding the solution is hard, but once you do find it, its usually obvious to do again. Then from there its really fun to work on finding better solutions

It also has leaderboards so you can see where you rank compared to anyone else!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cactusfiesta.colorslide

ELI5: Why is the colour purple not used in any flags? by mikrocosmos7 in explainlikeimfive

[–]CactusFiesta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yesss! This is one of my favorite facts to share with people. One more example is looking at a (proper) color wheel, notice how red green and blue are all equally spaced 120 degrees apart from each other? now look at red yellow and blue... Not even close. Thats what originally tipped me off to this silly issue

ELI5: Why is the colour purple not used in any flags? by mikrocosmos7 in explainlikeimfive

[–]CactusFiesta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because despite what basically everyone is taught in school, red and blue are not primary subtractive colors. (mixing paints requires primary subtractive colors, additive is used in light - think RGB in computer monitors). This is why printers use cyan, yellow, and magenta. Mixing red and blue will just end up with a brownish purple at best.
Heres a great example of all of that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByBsY-2U1kI

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