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by ketmar
Fri Oct 31, 2025 3:38 pm
Forum: New Ideas
Topic: new time limit mode: "explorer"
Replies: 9
Views: 322

Re: new time limit mode: "explorer"

This would prevent the need for three (potentially confusing) options, and seems to work reasonable in both cases (with option set to either "on" or "off"). looks good to me. ;-) and maybe add some mark to the cave, which tells the player that they solved the cave, but not in ti...
by ketmar
Fri Oct 31, 2025 2:49 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Miho Dash: BD clone written in Scheme
Replies: 1
Views: 25

Miho Dash: BD clone written in Scheme

it seems that it's ok to do small self-promotion here, so why not. ;-) this is cross-post from Arno's BD forum, i hope it's ok. Miho Dash is BD-compatible engine written in Miho Scheme. because i needed something to test my Scheme implementation with, and why not BD? ;-) it features: support for alm...
by ketmar
Fri Oct 31, 2025 2:39 am
Forum: New Ideas
Topic: new time limit mode: "explorer"
Replies: 9
Views: 322

Re: new time limit mode: "explorer"

(thinking loudly) i guess that if i'll make the patch, Holger will be way more interested — because then he'll have almost nothing to do. now i need to find some time to make that patch. ;-)
by ketmar
Wed Oct 29, 2025 2:03 am
Forum: Programmer's Corner
Topic: Patch proposal to fix an old CVE
Replies: 1
Views: 75763

Re: Patch proposal to fix an old CVE

i always wondered who is that mysterious "attacker" on my home PC, and how he managed to get there. actually, if i have that "attacker" active, RnD wrong access rights on fresh config dir would be the tiniest of my problems…
by ketmar
Mon Oct 27, 2025 6:23 pm
Forum: New Ideas
Topic: new time limit mode: "explorer"
Replies: 9
Views: 322

Re: new time limit mode: "explorer"

resetting the score is the main difference from "no time limit". the idea came from my playing expirience: i am not a good player, but i love to "compete with myself". usually i prefer to explore the level without paying attention to time limit first, and later try to beat it wit...
by ketmar
Mon Oct 27, 2025 2:48 am
Forum: New Ideas
Topic: new time limit mode: "explorer"
Replies: 9
Views: 322

new time limit mode: "explorer"

as far as i can see, there are only two time limit modes in the game now: "respect time limit" and "ignore time limit". i suggest adding the third one, "explorer" (the name is not important, of course ;-). the idea is that when the time is out, cave score is reset to 0 ...