Gridspech

Hi! Is there any editor?

Just played through the game today, loved it, thank you for making it! The feeling of arranging tangles of paths to cover the entire level (basically the ABCDHI mechanics) was especially cool, my favorite late game puzzles were about that.

How can we download the game on PC?

Been slowly picking away at this and wanted to give my compliments. One of the best rules-deducing games I've played, along with Blaz Gracar's work. Really nice difficulty curve where things often feel tough and even baffling but make perfect sense once you figure out what you need to do.

Really squeezing everything out of that one Cypher Zero mechanic. And the screenshots show even more stuff??????? Really excited to play it more. Is there a downloadable versios?

what's wrong with the above solution?

Hi just stopping by to say what a GREAT witness-like game! I've tried a lot of puzzles here and don't usually comment to congratulate. I have to say this is among the best in terms of deducing the rules. Congratulations! Hope you keep developing more gems like this!

Is there a way to lock tiles on mobile (touchscreen)?

Got a novel solution to G14, said to email the dev but there's no easy-to-find email contact!

https://imgur.com/a/IpEMzyJ

I'm having a difficult time understanding the mechanic in row g. could you maybe explain how that one works?

Cool game! I'm not sure if you still need them, but here are my (supposedly) novel solutions for E12 and G12.

Love, love, love this game.

One issue I found: the board can only be reset if you have added a green square. I found myself on many level trying to trace out the "empty" path first using the right-click function, and then wanting to erase the board found that the reset button wasn't available until I actually left-clicked a square. Then in the I levels, I realized that pink squares don't trigger the reset button either, there has to be a green square present for it to be available.

Here are my playthrough videos.

H and I are very challenging to solve with a single panel. I wanted cloning panels around the main panel.

novel solution for I8
https://imgur.com/a/75ZZOYd

and with that level I completed them all, great game!

Just solved all puzzles, really enjoyable game! The rule set is creative, and the puzzles are brilliant for showcasing the rules and how the rules can interact with each other.

I always find the concept of witness-like to be interesting, but I also find myself not enjoying some of the witness-like games. After reading your puzzle design thoughts post, it became clear that I like games that are more communicative when it comes to teaching rules, and more deductive when it comes to puzzles. That's why I like Taiji but can't get into Insight.

I think you did exactly what you set out to do as mentioned in your post. I can often deduce a lot about a puzzle, what you call "deductive anchors", and from there I can see the solution intuitively. I still don't feel like I have good intuition, but I did it in the end.

I liked most of the puzzles, and the bonus puzzles in section H and I are my favourites. They can be very hard and unintuitive, and some took me over an hour to solve, but I'm surprised by how much I can deduce without excessive trial-and-error. F9 is the puzzle that I struggled the most with, I relied mostly on trial-and-error on that one.

Lots of the puzzles, like B6 / B8 / B9, are much more fun with the new right-click. Feels more like a pencil puzzle, with less trial-and-error. And better than Taiji's sparkly middle-click.

But some puzzles, like B7, seem to still need trial-and-error, which is disappointing. Is there a way to solve that one logically? (In fairness, B7 is pretty small.)

I'm stopping at D9 for now, that one seems very tough.

Very fun! Section H was a blast and Section I was brutal.

I also apparently found a "novel solution".

G11: https://imgur.com/a/tAZNBAM

Novel solutions:

 * F12: https://imgur.com/a/gtKGbnT

 * H10: https://imgur.com/a/EfwnxRZ

I enjoyed the game a lot! Reminds me of some puzzles from Cracking the Cryptic (snakes, lights, galaxies). This game is kind of in the middle between CtC and The Witness for me. CtC is all about making a sequence of logically sound deductions, aided by the UI that lets you place various markers on the board; Witness is more just yoloing some guesses and getting a feel for what is likely to work, because you can only hold so many deductions in your head without resorting to pen and paper. Gridspech is a bit of both.

Minor UI feedback:

 * For the three-color puzzles I wish there was a way to label a cell as uncertain between two colors, i.e. "not green", "not purple", or "not blank". No idea how to make a good UI for it though. (Middle click to toggle between e.g. "green" and "not green"? Sounds cumbersome, and doesn't generalize to more colors. Something like Cracking the Cryptic's keyboard controls for colors? Ugh.)

 * Undo. I wanted it for bifurcations occasionally, but not too badly.

 * Sometimes it's mildly annoying that you can't interact with the grid for ~2 seconds after submitting an incorrect solution. I wish clicking the grid would interrupt the animation, or maybe allow toggling the cells during the animation (but then it might be a little confusing if the symbols keep flashing based on the previous state of the board, not the currently shown state). Useful when "submitting" just to see which symbols flash, either for experiments when exploring a new mechanic or for sanity-checks on a partial solution.

 * Clicking in the narrow empty space between cells toggles the cell below or to the right, rather than the closest cell.

D7 novel solution: https://i.imgur.com/sid6qIv.png

Novel solution for E12.

I found TWO similar novel solutions to C11, where you blacken the entire 2nd row (the one with the king).

Great game. Some novel solutions:

B15: https://imgur.com/a/6hcIYYj

C12: https://imgur.com/a/x6eG5Ba

C15: https://imgur.com/a/vew5QXz

C16: https://imgur.com/a/rIU47Fg

D6: https://imgur.com/a/W9oZcqs

D11: https://imgur.com/a/8rDuNdO

D12: https://imgur.com/a/BDhOayd

Awesome game! Very similar to a puzzle game I made for a game jam last year, except way better and more polished.

I found a novel solution to B9: https://imgur.com/a/YogQnYl

Looks interesting so far! I think these mechanics are really neat, and can lead to some deep puzzles. Some thoughts on the sets:

A: I got stuck on level 4 here. I think the idea that it communicates probably could've been done better with either a smaller setup, or more reinforcement of the general idea beforehand.

B: Level 2 might not be the best way to teach that concept? It seems like a weird way to introduce it. 

C: The crown symbol tutorial was a bit too easy to misinterpret, because the only real 'communication' of the concept seems to be in the first level. I'd recommend adding some more tutorial levels that more directly hint at the concept. (For instance, in the first one, it might be good to put the crown on one side rather than in the center.) Also, it seems that there's an extra condition on crowns that doesn't appear anywhere in the introductory levels here? In D7, this solution doesn't work, and I'm not sure why: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/526649761105969153/746561581290094682/f892d376be.png

D: This mechanic is pretty simple by itself, but the way it combines with others is cool. Love how it introduces an asymmetry - puzzles 4 and 5 show that off nicely.

Oh, and it would be nice to have solved puzzles marked, and have a way to go to the next/previous puzzle without having to go back to the list again.

The game asked me to send screenshots of some solutions, so:

B5: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/526649761105969153/746557126066831420/b1430576f9.png

C8: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/526649761105969153/746560047848620112/ae5366de68.png

D7: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/526649761105969153/746559447052058645/45837d8758.png