#Quantum Minesweeper*

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chrome meteor
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*or something... a game I'm working on with a potential collaborator. I made this initial prototype over the last few days :)

This is essentially Minesweeper but with limited expansion of the "fog of war", and growing/shrinking territory based on the player's performance, instead of the one-click-and-you-lose gameplay of classic Minesweeper.

If you correctly flag a mine it will lock in territory around that mine. If you incorrectly flag, or do an incorrect "chord", or left-click on a mine, you lose some territory. Locked in territory is gold and will not shrink. Also whenever you make a mistake the mines that are not flagged will shuffle, e.g. the "quantum" idea.

  • Left click to reveal tiles,
  • Right click to flag,
  • "Chording" works as expected, if you're familiar with that minesweeper mechanic,
  • Before you start a game you can hold the DEL key and use your mouse to delete tiles, making the grid any irregular shape you'd like.

Playable prototype here, please forgive the hasty programmer art:
https://tetronimike.itch.io/babasweeper?secret=OUXBHmDqHsqe2FeuDGxTjQ6l7X4

If we decide to move forward with this, the grid will be an abstracted idea of a micro-scale circuit board, and you're controlling an army of nanobots that self-replicate (revealing territory), die by electrical surge (shrinking territory), and are tasked with finding quantum something something tech-speak nodes that provide safe power for the nanobots to solidify in place (locking-in territory).

And that's just Layer 1 - once the player has solved a puzzle it is revealed that they're helping build parts to construct robots to do an evil corporation's bidding, and it gets weird from there.

Feedback is appreciated! <3

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brittle rune
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did someone say minesweeper 👀

chrome meteor
brittle rune
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no offense, but I'm pretty familiar with it myself

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I'm playing the demo, and I'm not exactly sure what the difference between yellow, green, and white are. Gray seems like fog of war, yellow seems like "known area"? and green is something about chording, I think

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I think having incorrect flag placement isn't a very good mechanic. If someone incorrectly places a flag, they'll get the feedback from their problem when they attempt to open a bomb. A lot of people will just flag on/off when they're thinking or using it as a proto-query key to put hypotheticals on the board

chrome meteor
chrome meteor
brittle rune
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but my question is why do you want to reduce that? a feature that's very often requested is a way to mark things freely to think out your logic, and flags are the best way to do that. if you put a flag on an open tile, you're already going to get punished, why punish them before they commit?

chrome meteor
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This is definitely something to think about though, so thank you :)

brittle rune
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have you played infinity sweeper? it seems like a similar idea

chrome meteor
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Ooo yes I will be playing that, thank you

brittle rune
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yea, it's somewhat popular, so they're probably doing something right. I love the idea of reimagining lives/death with territory. I could also see spawning mines in unknown areas when you make a mistake, so literally like laying traps for yourself

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and then the lose condition is when they all pile on and you're backed into the corner