Hello world!
The new version of Crucipixel Deluxe is now available!

I have created a sort of Picross player (dunno if you ever heard about the DS game), that allows to complete the schemes either by playing them on the pc, or by printing them and solving them on paper.
The current available version is 2.2:

Crucipixel Deluxe 2.2

If you want to know more about picross, visit my site!
Here you can find the list of the solvable Puzzles:

Feoden Site - Puzzle List




Game explanation:

If you have never heard about the Picross game (I found out it has many names, such as Picross, Griddler, Crucipixel, but Picross is the official one since it is used in the DS game) you should try this tutorial to get started(you may find my game very hard in that case):

Picross Tutorial

Since in my game the puzzle are colored, I have added another rule: groups with the same color MUST have an empty space between, while groups of different colors don't have to.




A bit of gameplay spoiler:

The Puzzle Selection Menu:


The puzzle game:


The new title screen:


The new save screen:



Current features (2.2 version):

-All puzzles have solution
47 puzzles have been inserted officially in the game and they all have unique solution. Old puzzles have been moved to the tests folder.

-Customized Windowskin
If you modify the content of the Skin folder, by adding or removing skins, the program will automatically load them. The skins in the folder must be named Windowskin0, Windowskin1, Windowskin2, etc... Otherwise the program will not load them.

-Customized Challenge
If you wish to add your own challenges, just modify the content of the Tests folder, by adding or removing your own schemes. The names of the files must be Test0, Test1, Test2, Test3, etc... In order to be loaded correctly the file must be a PNG image with a transparent background.

-Save & Load Feature
If you wish to save your progress you can press F6 in the selection menu. Now you will be asked to save even when you leave the game.
Now files are more recognizable since they show some of the solved puzzles.

-New Puzzle Menu
When solving a puzzle, you can press undo to open the menu. You can either reset or complete the puzzle, save or take a screenshot of the puzzle.

-Screenshot Feature
If you wish to play on paper, or you wish just to take a photo of the solved puzzle, just press the proper button, and it will save a PNG of the whole scene in the main folder. (If you want to play on paper you shall reset it before taking a screenshot).

-Zoom Feature
Now you can Zoom in and out the puzzle just by pressing Ctrl+Z or X.

-Settings Feature
You can customize the window resolution ( from 640x480 to 1280x800) and the default puzzle zoom.

-Animated Background Feature
In the title screen the background changes when time changes. You can also choose it by pressing Z.


Thanks for caring about

I've just solved Test0, Test1 and Test2.
It's a drug, damnit! I cannot leave before solving them!

Only one remark...

You should let the player save even from the Image Selection screen, since I've lost my data once because of this.
In addiction, you should customize Save Scene in order to easy recognize saves.
Save files are a bit anonymous...
You could display the current puzzle name, for example, or the number of puzzles solved, in order to allow the player to easily recognize the desired save file.

Apart from these things, this game is actually good and well designed.

Jens

Here's the update: (Thanks Jens)

Crucipixel Deluxe V 1.1

Features included:

You can now save anywhere you wish to

Save files now feature the number of puzzle solved

More challenging puzzles added!


I dunno how many picross lover and rpg maker addicted may be hanging around the forum, but a feedback will be appreciated

Too much challenging, in my opinion...
That damned Ditto is too damn difficult!
Maybe I'm goat-skilled in picrosses...

Jens

Well the pokemon puzzles are very very very difficult, you shouldn't have tried them if you have never played picross

(Anyway, the easiest of the pokemon ones is oddish, if anyone ever wished to try )

If anyone ever dared to try it, here's a brand new version, with 21 puzzles:

Crucipixel Deluxe V 1.2

If you have some Chocobos tell me and I'll try this trappling-mind game
(O just a great-glorious-red R )
I'm serious, no time for jocking

I have indeed! There was a little bug in the 1.2 version, so I'll update the fixed one:

Crucipixel V 1.2bis

Featured:

Pokemon puzzles (Oddish, Horsea, Ditto, Flareon....)

Final Fantasy puzzles (Chocobos and many others)

Feoden for President I'll try to solve them

Re-opened so the developer can update their topic.

Thank you. Now a new version has been released.

If you go to the first post, you can download it and find out what's new.

A new version has been released!

Implemented:

Customized Resolution
Customized Title Background (it changes during the day)
New Save interface
No more unsolvable puzzles (They have ALL been tested)
New puzzles!

Download 2.2:

Crucipixel Deluxe V2.2

Ok, I played it a bit more and it's amazing only one thing to point out:
I have Windows 8 and when I press Ctrl + X it doesn't work. I tried it on 7 and on XP and it worked again... You can write in the main page the OS Compatibility

EDIT: during the game Ctrl + C doesn't work... have yo typed the wrong letter?

I've got a couple of requests and notes

1. In the tutorial, I see some squared "missing characters".
These characters are displayed only when you access a compressed archive and your file includes characters like \n, \t, etc.
If you playtested it with RMXP debug player, you couldn't see them.
To solve that issue, insert a in the function which slices the text, where string represent each line printed.

2. I hate seeing the selected colour box over the grid. When the grid is zoomed down, that's pretty annoying

3. On my netbook (res. 1024 x 600), the game.exe was too big and I couldn't even move the window, since the main bar was out of the borders.
I had to resize the window, even if the 800 x 600 resolution would have fit the screen...

Anyway, the new level of customization is awesome

Jens

Never played picross before, but it's cool how you were able to make this with RPG Maker.

@Ratty524

Thanks! It took a while to write it all but it's awesome

@Jens

1- I know and this is the code I used:

On my pc (windows 7) there's no sign of those squares, even after compression. Gosh...

2- I thought it unnecessary since when it overlaps you can no longer distinguish number xD
Anyway my suggestion is Always to print them (you can play on Pain too, and it works quite well )

3 - I know and that's why the default window was set to 800x600 (if I didn't mess things up before releasing)

Oh yes, playing and solving picrosses is a real Pain Well, I actually dunno what to say.
Send me your .txt files and I'll use a converter I created to make proper arrays, without odd symbols...

Oh, and what about the bug 3rr3 mentioned? Is that true that on Windows 8 there are some problems concerning the zoom?



Jens

@Jens

Well why are you asking? your brother is the only one who's got windows 8 so ask him XD

Anyway there's no serious bug in this release

There is only a misprint in the tutorial: Ctrl+Z is zoom out and Ctrl + X is zoom in