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Re:Show HN: I'm releasing my game for free by alpb on Monday April 06, 2020 @10:47PM (#22799925)
For those who don't know this game is called Sokoban. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokoban
Re:Show HN: I'm releasing my game for free by atum47 on Monday April 06, 2020 @10:52PM (#22799950)
yes, I added the "sokoban" tag to my game page. As I said on other comment, the difference between QUBES and a classic sokoban game is that on QUBES the amount of moves you make counts.

It's not enough to solve the puzzle, you have to solve it the best way possible.

Big O notation?

Re:Show HN: I'm releasing my game for free by bitwize on Monday April 06, 2020 @11:20PM (#22800066)
It's not the first sokoban game to score based on number of moves.

But heck, writing an original clone of an already-extant game is an interesting exercise especially for beginner game devs. So cherish the victory of having finished and released it!

Re:Show HN: I'm releasing my game for free by atum47 on Monday April 06, 2020 @11:40PM (#22800167)
thank you. but I swear I had never seen a sokoban game that counts your moves. Well, I haven't search it either, so it doesn't count, but I remember playing sokoban on DOS when I was a kid and it didn't count the moves.
Re:Show HN: I'm releasing my game for free by Mountain_Skies on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @12:30AM (#22800351)
You can see moves being counted in this port for the TRS-80 Color Computer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncsglTE2xoY

I had that game as a child. Even though it counted moves, I never paid attention to it. I only cared about finishing the level. Your game puts more emphasis on the number of moves especially with showing the minimum number of moves to solve a level. That gives it more replay value.

Re:Show HN: I'm releasing my game for free by slantyyz on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @08:48AM (#22802659)
I had a CoCo as a child too.

I remember thinking the Microsoft "Extended" Basic for the CoCo was pretty cool. Although it was pretty painful manually typing in source code from magazines to try new programs (I think the main magazine back then was "Rainbow").

The tweens today who have only used Github for getting code don't know how good they have it.

Re:Show HN: I'm releasing my game for free by atum47 on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @01:02AM (#22800462)
1984, same age as me, haha
Re:Show HN: I'm releasing my game for free by nickers on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @02:26AM (#22800803)
Qubes should display counter too.

Otherwise it's awesome.