[Kde-games-devel] How do you play jigsaw puzzles

[Arturo Silva]

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Matthew Woehlke wrote:
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>
> Sure, you *could* do that, but IMO that's just saddistic.

Haha!  Understatement of the century!  :D


> You're not
> adding challenge at that point, just wasted effort...
>
> ...Almost.
>
> There is actually one sense in which I could see doing that... double
> sided puzzles :-). Either different pictures, or (even more annoying)
> the same picture. But that's a long-term feature.

Well if the game ever comes with multi-part difficulty in the future
(or just puzzles listed as "challenging" that have extra features
built in), then yeah that sounds like a great plan to make this fun
for seasoned players. ^^


>
> Except for the default, I like the background textures. It's just that
> you don't want the background to distract from the pieces. Ideally you
> want a background that contrasts strongly with /all/ the pieces, and
> also has limited texture. You still /want/ some texture because it looks
> better :-), but not much.
>
> I wouldn't "replace" any of the textures (except maybe the default),
> just tone them down a bit. Even better might be leave them as is but
> with a 'contrast' slider to satisfy both of us. For the built-ins, do
> some image processing to dynamically "soften" them.
>
> Actually another idea would be to turn them into something that can be
> applied by image processing onto any color. Basically break them into an
> overlay channel, hue shift channel, and remove the base color.
>
> Maybe I'll even look into doing this myself.

More great ideas, I see. ^^
I wonder if the same right-click texture change menu couldn't also
house a contrast and hue slider as well.  Maybe not by default, but
similar to a "More>" button that displays additional options that can
be applied to that texture (and an accompanying "Less>" button to hide
the sliders once more).


>
> That sounds awesome :-). Now... we need to teach you enough code to make
> slicers also, I bet you would have some cool ideas there.

Thank you! ^^
I'm always all-ears for coding lessons, and I enjoy contributing
non-drawn things [once in a while].  ;)

But beware my so-called bastion of ideas, as the only thing I can
think of at the moment is a Soma-cube (=tetris-like) inspired puzzle
slicer, thematic mosaics, and other sadistic designs.  ^^;


--Art