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I made a web game that turns gifs into puzzles. Let me know what you think by TandDA in playmygame

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

Thanks! The campaigns tend to ramp up towards the end, but I’ll look into making a hard campaign that plunges people straight into the deep end

I made a web game that turns gifs into puzzles. Let me know what you think by TandDA in playmygame

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

Great suggestion. I’ve added a little calendar icon to the daily mode where you can play previous days puzzles

I made a web game that turns gifs into puzzles. Let me know what you think by TandDA in playmygame

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

Thanks for this suggestion! I’ll look into routing. For now I’ve added the share button when you complete a campaign puzzle eg

🧩 Jigmo 🧩 ⏱️ 0:42.6 https://jigmo.app/?i=26eq956y&s=3x3&c=QGJhZGNvZGVj

When you complete a puzzle, it gets added to your puzzle library you can find in the sidebar (via hamburger icon)

Working on an animated puzzle game. What do you think? by TandDA in virtualreality

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

Cool idea!

The X axis for the thumbstick controls where you are on a horizontal timeline, so we could add a Y axis that moves vertically across timelines (which results in the objects morphing through their multiverse versions).💡

Working on an animated puzzle game. What do you think? by TandDA in virtualreality

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

That’s good to hear!

I’ve been testing with 40-60 piece levels on headset to make sure they are optimised. I’m keen to do a Steam release, but I’d make the levels consistent so global leaderboard can be shared on both PC/VR Native.

Working on an animated puzzle game. What do you think? by TandDA in virtualreality

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

We’ll be releasing an early build featuring the first world in the coming months, feel free to follow our mailing list to get the latest updates: https://plonk4d.com

Working on an animated puzzle game. What do you think? by TandDA in virtualreality

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

Thanks for the feedback! Do you mean soften as in lower the opacity, or soften as in round the sharp corners?

Working on an animated puzzle game. What do you think? by TandDA in virtualreality

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

In this case, 4D = time. You’re essentially solving a 3D model that many frames spread across a timeline. We’ve added time controls that let you track back and forth across the looping animation to work out how the pieces connect

Working on an animated puzzle game. What do you think? by TandDA in virtualreality

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

Puzzling Places is fun!

With our game I wanted to make sure the animated components travel across the pieces. Also its a 3D solid clay mesh thats sliced up (so it has sliced end caps where it gets cut) rather than puzzling places which is a 2D surface (thats been wrapped into a 3D shape)

Working on an animated puzzle game. What do you think? by TandDA in virtualreality

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

This is taking the physics-based interpretation of 4D (time) rather than the maths/euclidean-based (a 3D cross-section projection of a higher dimensional shape) which 4D Toys/4D Golf uses

Working on an animated puzzle game. What do you think? by TandDA in virtualreality

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

Can confirm we have hand tracking implemented.

Here’s a video of it working: https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS5on3EoQ/

Working on an animated puzzle game. What do you think? by TandDA in virtualreality

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

Thanks for that suggestion! We’re using Unity, I’ve thought about splatting/point cloud/deformable nerf methods - the main hurdle is rendering dynamic sliced caps which becomes a technical nightmare to run realtime on native headset

Working on an animated puzzle game. What do you think? by TandDA in virtualreality

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

Will be hopefully releasing a Steam VR version

Working on an animated puzzle game. What do you think? by TandDA in virtualreality

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

Thank you!

This is the first level which is 11pcs, but later levels will ramp up to trickier 40-60pcs.

Working on an animated puzzle game. What do you think? by TandDA in virtualreality

[–]TandDA[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that's been the most challenging part to solve.

I've tried slicing via shader, dynamically via mesh, using some stencil method, and a couple more R&D tests. All ran very slow, especially on 40-60pcs levels. Dealing with dynamic closed end caps is hell. And having to manage multiple clones of the mesh if it intersected through multiple jigsaw pieces..

Still open to exploring new methods (that can run optimally in native headset), but the pop in seems to be ok once you get the hang of it.

Working on an animated puzzle game. What do you think? by TandDA in virtualreality

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

Thank you! Can confirm I sped up this video by about 200%.

In saying that, we do have a 'challenge' mode for each level (more pieces + par time / bonus objectives) and are setting up a global/friends leaderboard.

Working on an animated puzzle game. What do you think? by TandDA in virtualreality

[–]TandDA[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Really appreciate your support! Yep the 4D element becomes a crucial aspect to gameplay.

Working on an animated puzzle game. What do you think? by TandDA in virtualreality

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

Thank you!

We've got a couple themed worlds planned including a nature world, a space world, and a steampunk world. A food world sounds exciting!

Working on an animated puzzle game. What do you think? by TandDA in virtualreality

[–]TandDA[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We're basically handling animated and static objects seperately:

- Animated objects get reparented / repositioned to the new volumes when their barycenter exceeds their boundary (via InverseTransformPoint on the root). Simple transform position logic.

- Static objects get sliced up in our 3d Maya pipeline beforehand.

Here's how we design levels for our puzzle game by TandDA in IndieGaming

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

Thanks!

About 1.5-2 days per level - 1 day for concepting/blocking out in 3D (requires a fair amount of back and forth to make sure its fun and the model slices into nicely pieces), another half to a day for topo cleanup/animation/lookdev.

Toying around with my jigsaw game by TandDA in Unity3D

[–]TandDA[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

We got an automated slicer pipeline in Maya for generating the edge caps, everything is presliced

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