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Old 05-30-2007, 11:50 PM
Josh Jensen Josh Jensen is offline
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Originally Posted by requin View Post
You could call kid's mode, "For Starters" or "The Journey Begins", or something. Then maybe go with Regular, then Intermediate, and Advanced and/or Expert. (not sure how many there are, offhand) In the reset menu (when you hover on the map) there's one called "junior" which as you say, must be kid's mode. But that's a tad confusing because to pick kid's mode you get that option page that comes up, when you make a new user.
Perhaps it is best to avoid terminology that seemingly refers to difficulty at all. Magic Balls (Kids) and Regular Balls (or maybe Invisible Balls).


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Originally Posted by requin View Post
Not to mention being able to reset and get entire new boards. How many times will it reset to new boards??
Indefinitely. The newly reset levels are randomly generated, but they are based on rule sets we define. An example of one such rule set for Novice 5-7 is:

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Novice_5_7 =
{
	text = L'All in the Mix',
	gridWidth = 23,
	gridHeight = 15,
	wallsMinWeight = 0.1,
	wallsMaxWeight = 0.15,
	bouncerCoverage = 0.2,
	splittersMinWeight = 0.2,
	splittersMaxWeight = 0.2,
	scramblersMinWeight = 0.25,
	scramblersMaxWeight = 0.25,
	normalMinWeight = 0.5,
	normalMaxWeight = 0.5,
	scramblersWrongMinPercentage = 0.5,
	scramblersWrongMaxPercentage = 0.75,
	switchersMinWeight = 0.25,
	switchersMaxWeight = 0.25,
	shiftersMinWeight = 0.1,
	shiftersMaxWeight = 0.1,
	stage = 5,
	level = 7,
	endOfStage = true,
	themeToLoad = 4,
}
In reference to the above, Novice 5-7 will always be made of a 21x13 board (according to the Puzzle menu's sliders), 10-15% of the island walls, 20% of the remaining empty tiles will be made of Bouncers/Splitters/Shifters, 50-75% of the level will be Scramblers, and so on.

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Originally Posted by requin View Post
I thought there was nothing new to learn after twirlers but voila, 4-way bouncers, very clever. This game gets really crazy with all the wam boozlers and wintinglers (as per Dr. Seuss, heh).
Nice. We should have used your Dr. Seuss terminology. Boozlers is much more exciting than Bouncers.

Thanks for all your input!

Josh
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