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kept this one under 500 lines of code, i think that's a new record for me

get that cheese 🧀

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I love this mechanic of pushing blocks together to increase セバスチャン's 食欲!!

Wonderful idea, deftly executed <3


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I may have a problem.


(lol)
I wonder how high I can raise appetite, and if it's possible to break out of containment.


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Wow, this is a feat! So many "aha" moments in such a tiny rule set. I'm impressed!


well done! I like the clean art style.


Wow this is really cool! I love how the mechanics are introduced without a direct tutorial.
The ending was tragic.


The combination of this mechanic and sokoban is great. Feels like I 'm playing Tasty Planet in the end!


Agree with what other's here have said. Really fun and chill. ending made me sad.


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Thought I was safe playing a sokoban like puzzle game, turns out it was an addictive incremental game in disguise !


@Verb , how dare you nerd-snipe me ! Now I need to know too :

Looking at the map, there is a solid wall of blue of width 9 all around the 9 game screens.
1st thing : inventory
what do we have access to inside the 9 rooms :

I'll ignore the problems of tiles bordering the blue outside that can be trickier to merge with the rest for now.
90+83+61+92+53+44=423 grass tiles -423 appetite.
39+423=462 yellow diamonds
merge yellow (+1/merge)
231+4=235 blue pearls +231 appetite
merge blue pearls (+2/merge)
117+1=118 green gems (117x2=+234 appetite)
merge green gems (+4/merge)
59+3=62 red diamonds (59x4=+236 appetite)

appetite sub total : -423+231+234+236=+278

Walls (cost 9 to eat, gives red diamond):
278+91+95+92=556
556 x 9 = -5004 appetite
62+556=618 red diamonds
merge red diamonds (+8/merge)
309 +6 = 315 white diamonds (309 x 8 = +2472 appetite)

I'll stop there, RL necessity :(
If someone (Verb ?) wants to go on, grey costs 90 to eat and gives big blue pearl, blue costs 900 and gives white square gems.
gains for merging are :
1 2 4 8 14 23 32 41 50 59 68 77 86 95 and so on
I don't know if eating the grey is worth it or not.


I really enjoyed this game. Totally delightful to play and discover how it works.


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@RealShadowCaster

I'm getting a theoretical 5323 appetite, but that includes all grass+bricks, gem combinations, and excludes rocks+metals since they give diminishing returns.

The perimeter of the play area is 9 metal tiles thick, so 9*900=8100 appetite would be needed to break through. Converting as you go would only get you 6 tiles in before running out at 204 appetite. Better go for the cheese instead 😀

Also, here's an answer to a question no one asked..

...which only raises more questions.


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Jim, thank you for the kind words!!

Verb / Shadowcaster, thank you for the beautiful spreadsheets !!

Hopefully sebastian will be back in another adventure someday, maybe after he finally breaches containment...


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@Verb, thanks for finishing the analysis. Sebastian won't escape this time.
In fact, the 5323 is higher than the real maximum :
To reach the gems in the top left screen, you need to eat at least three grey walls. That's a much bigger loss on top of the already ignored difficulty of merging the corner tiles of the map.

About the dogs merging into cheese for 230 appetite, it's always fun to make games misbehave by providing them with hand corrupted maps or saves.
Programmatically, it makes sense, dog is tile 30 and merges into tile 31 (cheese) and gain is 14+9*24, just super funny and surrealist.




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