Boulder Dash Forum

Oh, don't get me wrong, I could complete the level without savestates three times in a row, I tested all my levels like this (it was someone else's advice I read), but because I knew all the tricks and designed the last part of that level around them, I could just whizz through it. So fair and predi...

Hi, Sendy here, 6 years late, but there you go :P Thanks for your compliments. I'm glad you had fun. Level 42, the bottom part IS possible, but it's ridiculously hard. You need to savestate all the time and exploit quirks in the boulder physics. There was an update I put out for SD1 that was on my w...

Interesting... Expanding on the idea of warping to a cave in a nonlinear order, how about if every exit had it's own destination cave and prerequisites for opening it (number of diamonds, time limit, 'has not died on level' flag, whatever else...). That way not only could there be warps but also an ...

Hi guys, remember me? (Of course, how could you forget?) I don't know when I came here last but I haven't been able to access my old C64 BD projects for a long time because of computer problems. My old gaming PC won't fully boot up, but the hard drive seems to not be damaged. I keep meaning to get i...

RTADash wrote:I'm thinking 11...

I agree (and I'm not 'just' saying that).

And it seems I completely overlooked much of the last puzzle

Come to think of it, you might be able to get that last diamond and escape, if you snapped it from below and ran down and to the left quickly

I think, 17, though collecting the last one will leave you trapped with those four boulders near the top right roomlet.

johnomg wrote:

Arno wrote:But suppose that Rockford is at the north or south pole, and someone says "walk 4 steps East", what should he do??

Man....That's a tough one.

Walk sideways like a Crab on the spot???

Spin around!

Yes, walk left until there's two squares of dirt left between you and the border. Snap left and step right. Move up and right, up and left, and now I'm pretty sure there'll be space to the left of you enough to go left again and up to the "mouth" of the "smiley face" of dirt in t...

I'm guessing it's 50/50 possible/impossible.

EDIT: Actually I'd say yes, looking at it, but I've only took a glance.

It just means that the default is that the amoeba never speeds up. Though most caves never use the default setting, as far as I can tell.

Amoeba has two default growing speeds, slow and fast.

It begins in slow mode, and will enter fast mode after the amoebatime has counted down.

I'm sure one of the more technical minded can say what the probabilities of growth are in both states...

I'm not demanding that you change these things. I'm just bringing up some fine details now that everything else is rock-solid. :) But I will :) I just have to find out the rule. I alredy recorded the amoeba+magic together sound to include it. Cool, that sound is my favorite :) For some reason it re...

independent level settings for slime permeabilities? Hmmm. Why not? Sounds interesting. In 1st level slime let boulder through very fast, in 5th level very slow. Certainly a funny thing... Or: Level 1 - Slow permeability, lets through a gentle trickle of boulders and diamonds, generous time limit t...

Got it, thanks.