04-Mar-2013, 9:32 AM
I agree (even with what I said about including some harder, though not devilishly difficult levels). My main concern right now is that we've got so many difficult levels up for consideration that the staff will almost certainly need to make some tough decisions about what to keep and what to toss post-voting.
I completely hear you on monotony. One of the biggest surprises that has come out of playing Chuck's Challenge is that many of the levels are incredibly tiny, though this is partially due to the feasibility of playing a larger level on a mobile device. (I'm trying to push for the PC version to have larger stock levels!) But besides that, we're also living in an on-the-go world where a level like "On the Rocks" just won't fly. This is why I've been tending to enjoy puzzles with obvious objectives and campaign levels that, if long, flow smoothly with few surprises.
I completely hear you on monotony. One of the biggest surprises that has come out of playing Chuck's Challenge is that many of the levels are incredibly tiny, though this is partially due to the feasibility of playing a larger level on a mobile device. (I'm trying to push for the PC version to have larger stock levels!) But besides that, we're also living in an on-the-go world where a level like "On the Rocks" just won't fly. This is why I've been tending to enjoy puzzles with obvious objectives and campaign levels that, if long, flow smoothly with few surprises.