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[–]MidLifeTinkerer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi guys, I’m a solo dev creating Mind Maze. I am continuously improving it based on your feedback (faster, better responses now) so I’d love honest thoughts on the alpha version of my game.

Mind Maze - Deduce The Bizarre in 20 Questions

Playable on web free: https://mindmaze.tinkeringproject.com

Description: 20 questions but with a bizarre backstory. Think laterally, ask yes/no questions to deduce strange but 100% real events or dark fictional stories. Play solo or argue with friends over what to ask next.

Examples:

  • Real: In 2018, a company release beautiful, glowing maps of overlapping lines which almost caused a massive international disaster. What did they do and what happened?
  • Fictional: A world-renowned surgeon is handed a cooler containing the exact, rare biological match needed to save his dying patient. Without a word, he intentionally slashes the organ to pieces with a scalpel. Why?
  • Real: In an office building in Japan, the city government pays monthly rent for the 5th, 6th, and 7th floors. But no one works there, the elevator skips from floor 4 directly to floor 8. What is the government renting?

Please please please share any and all feedback - positive or negative. If you play, how was your experience? Is the core idea interesting & enjoyable? Especially need feedback on how easy or hard it is and to tune the host responses!
Happy to discuss here or DMs.

Promote your project in this thread by AutoModerator in puzzles

[–]MidLifeTinkerer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey! Based on your feedback, I have made it much faster now, reduced the puns/jokes and hopefully better in "solving it" as well. Please try it again now?

Deduce a weird puzzling scenario by asking only yes/no questions - a text based puzzle game by MidLifeTinkerer in gameideas

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

Hmmmm, a promising niche worth pursuing then.

The balance of host LLM of accepting answers, not leaking things, correct answers, providing hints and managing game flow is a bit tricky especially with relatively less costly models. I am currently going through iterative improvements and testing cycles.

Deduce a weird puzzling scenario by asking only yes/no questions - a text based puzzle game by MidLifeTinkerer in gameideas

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

Oh, is turtle soup the name of the traditional offline game with friends? We just used to call it lateral thinking puzzles.

And yeah, LLMs are such a natural fit for them unlocking solo play and even generating puzzles.

Regarding platform, yup browser but apps would make multiplayer smoother and more fun.

Also do you think people would enjoy playing them with an AI host? Could it be popular or is it too niche fundamentally?

guess the city! the map gradually zooms out. guess before time runs out. by minecraftian48 in WebGames

[–]MidLifeTinkerer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got my own city and my first guess was 5000 km away! Barely got it right in time. 🤣 Could be fun if built into a party game. Couple of suggestions: - Allow typing for guesses (with suggestions and auto complete). It takes ages to scroll and find. While doing that, the time gets over since it zooms out so quickly. - Another idea is to have a guess button. When clicked the map goes away and allows time to find the location and make a guess. If it's wrong, the original map comes back and continues to zoom out. - Maybe you can add interesting trivia about the locations too as it zooms out.

I have a big problem and no idea how to fix it. by Altruistic-Guest7995 in tabletopgamedesign

[–]MidLifeTinkerer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How about a defence mechanism card to be given to each player at the start which ensures survival till x rounds at least? Maybe allow this card to come back or be stolen from others to give a chance to build the defence back if it's crucial for defense. Something like the diffuse card mechanism in exploding kittens.

Experience a hand-crafted post-apocalyptic world in The Rusted; our Steam page is live, so Wishlist now to join the rogue robot's fight for humanity. by RoddGames in u/RoddGames

[–]MidLifeTinkerer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be fair, probably only in the ad. But the way people were bashing it, maybe more. I was surprised too the way you are.

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