Rocks'n'Diamonds

i think this should be moved to the "level design and artwork" subforum... didnt even know topics could be created in R'n'D Announcements

played thru the entire demo. very fun and probably as cute as deflektor can get

well can you do engine rnd with repton, DC 3, DC steam, heartlight, Supaplex sr and ruby hunter for rndtest for next day or week? that sounds like a tall order; implementing another game into rnd (especially one as different as repton) isn't the kind of thing that gets done in a week. much less 6 g...

When the dripper is revealed, it doesn't actually spread unlike how it does that invisibly. this may be related to the issues presented in level 004 of my tutorial levelset "ncrtorial", where drippers don't produce amoeba drips at all while the light switch/lenses are on, but can produce ...

Sometimes I start a level and realize it would be convenient to know what's beyond the camera (e.g. in small puzzle levels that are just too wide to fully see from the starting position). In that case it would be nice if I could press a button (Z for zoom?) that toggles the "small game graphics...

I had a dream that Rocks'n'Diamonds had a bug where single-step mode only applied to the player and basic Emerald Mine elements for some reason. E.g., while single-step mode is active, time pauses for gems, rocks, robots, etc. as expected, but elements from other games would just keep moving. No ide...

bugs truly are some charismatic critters ... enjoyed building up a little infestation of them in "the bug blaster" and watching them scurry along the level border every so often. not done with the levelset yet, & i've skipped most of the amoeba-intensive longer levels, but so far there...

usually when i die i rush to press F2 before that message comes up so i can get back to my "checkpoint" tape faster. would be nice if i could press F2 while that message was displaying to load a tape instead of restarting from the beginning or exiting to the menu. i guess this would requir...

after viewing it, the bottom of the screen also has the textbox lines there until you clear it by bringing up the tape UI on the bottom (going in-game or back to the menu)

maybe it would be interesting to add an option that sets the timer value to its old, much shorter maximum (and converts your final score so it's the same as if you had played with the normal timer). i have noticed that in a lot of levels i finish with still 90-80% of the timer remaining

https://i.imgur.com/g17SND1.png this was https://api.artsoft.org/levelsets/view/380 ; level 44 of mindbender was missing entirely because apparently no-one uploaded a tape for it before (until i did) as i write this i realize it makes sense for a level no-one has uploaded a tape for not to have a p...

is this intentional?

score shown at the end of my tape:

my score as reported in the hall of fame:

my score WAS 850 once it awarded me points for my remaining fuel, but then then the points for my missing heat were added and it became 947

see https://youtu.be/y7VXfb-q6zc , or play back this tape: 028.tape at 0:56 of the tape (or 1:01 of the youtube video) a fuse that the laser passes by gets activated when the laser passes by a prism and melts an ice tile. the laser remains on, but unable to melt any ice tiles until the fuse is deact...