Weekly Pumpernickle (3/9 - 3/16)

[mgatelabs]

New discussion time

[stefnotch]

It seems like clicking on the cubes doesn't work at the moment? (In the deployed version)

[mgatelabs]

I see what is going on. If you navigate to a puzzle from the main map/list, it works, but if you start to navigate to other puzzles via the bottom map, something gets messed up. I think we only setup the interaction manager once for the "starting" cubes and never updated it on switch

[mgatelabs]

Got it

[mgatelabs]

Seirai Island is almost complete, I need to finish off that puzzle that requires going between islands. Think I'll use my kids accounts to get the raw details, since it is complicated.

[mgatelabs]

Seirai Island is complete and it was weird, but x16779 it is actually two map markers, so I made up a system so they can be linked together.

[mgatelabs]

4 islands are now complete. Now all that is left is fish and scary island.

[mgatelabs]

Also finally had to implement a puzzle with a custom solution.

[stefnotch]

Woah, that's amazing to hear!
The fish island has that one very unique puzzle. I wonder how that one works, since I've never actually solved it.

[mgatelabs]

Thinking, should a tracker be placed in the deployed page? Like the google web tool thing, so we can see how many people are using it?

[mgatelabs]

I've been looking around and there isn't a great solution for basic tracking, it needs a 3rd party service and google isn't GDPR compliant, but with some tweeks you could disable most of the tracking, but still wouldn't want to give the big G any more insight.

[stefnotch]

I'll ask someone who might have a bit of experience in that area

[stefnotch]

They recommended https://plausible.io/ , which seems to be pretty decent at a first glance

[mgatelabs]

It seems good, except for the $9 a month for 10k traffic.

[stefnotch]

I see, that's definitely not ideal for a page with zero revenue.

[mgatelabs]

Just finished adding the 3 special Watatsumi Island puzzles. Had to add in a new way to specify the "solution", since you have to hit the pieces in a certain order.

[mgatelabs]

Been a while, exploring a cave, and I'm trying to write a Old Chou's Treasure solver.

[stefnotch]

Oh, is it essentially a variant of Minesweeper?
If yes, then that sounds like a fun thing to write a solver for. (Here is one example of a best-possible solver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGUHehFGqBc )

[mgatelabs]

This is what I have for the solver, you click and you can set the tile to be Empty, Cabbage or Iron

[stefnotch]

Oh that's lovely! First bit of feedback is that it might be nice to explain "empty means no bombs nearby, cabbage means..."

[stefnotch]

Also, I guess the solver isn't quite finished yet? If I didn't misunderstand the rules, right here it should be able to mark the topmost/rightmost ?BOMB? tiles as SAFE.

[mgatelabs]

Right now i'm doing simple matching, if I kept track of how many squares want that tile to be a bomb then I could eliminate the top and right ones, since the bottom and left have a stronger weight.

[mgatelabs]

Ok, re-wrote the algorithm and now it detects more edge cases.

[mgatelabs]

https://mgatelabs.github.io/GenshinSolvers/oldchoutreasure