A Battlestar (regionless star battle) puzzle game starring penguins! :)
Place penguins such that each row and column contains exactly 1 penguin, and no 2 penguins touch.
Controls
Left-click - Place penguin
Right-click - Mark cell
Music
MMX - Chill Penguin Theme
Yay, more star battle puzzles!
Like the Megaman music, too - always a fan of the music of that series.
Oh, this was a delightful little starting position!
Usually there's a row or column with a single legal square to get things started, but this very prettily sidesteps that. What a fun random puzzle!
@packbat: Nice one! Yeah for 1★ puzzles my generator tends to give easy starts on average, but once in a while you get gems with beautiful break-in logic. :D
...okay, I'm not sure how to solve this one. Is this supposed to happen?
(Edit: I'm leaving PICO-8 open for the day in case there's something I can do to help debug - I'm not sure there is, but if you have a debug mode or something then I can try to access it.)
(Also, I've played hundreds of games of this and hundreds of games of the earlier one, so whatever bug this is must be rare.)
@packbat: Really weird- I've never seen that happen. All I can think of which might have caused that is some numerical precision issue when trying to randomly remove tiles to make a unique board- it could be that the probabilities didn't add up to 1 there. D:
Great little puzzle, LOVE the penguins. :D I like that the difficulty is adjustable and the penguins are removable without clearing the whole board (guess who didn't realize that at first :P)
A very nice cart. I had to go off and read the strategies for solving these and I still find some of the boards unsolveable. But great fun and wonderfully presented.
@phil: Glad you enjoyed it! If interested, can send boards that you get stuck on as they should all be solvable. :D
Thanks @Meep - I think its my inability to perform the logic rather than it being unsolveable boards, but I'll shout if I see anything that is suspect
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