My top scores (but arguably I was using glitches): Total Snapshots: 30 Merges: 10 Reverts: 0 Merge Conflicts: 0 Snapshots with Liv: 4 Snapshots with Pluto: 3 Trophies found: 3 Doors climbed over: 37
My favourite video was 3 snapshots with Pluto, and my favourite parts across all videos were all the different ways you solved Pluto's 4th level (2 red boxes).
The funny thing is that I added the "door feels upset" message to discourage exploits, and instead you took it as an invitation to cheat even harder! I had no idea that it was possible to upset some of those doors.
I'm pretty sure that the tall-ladder glitch is required to reach 0 conflicts and the demo-28 message. I'm tempted to patch the infinite jetpack exploit, but I also believe that anyone who finds that exploit deserves to use it.
That was real sneaky the way you got from #34 to #35. It took me ages to figure out how you did that.
I'm particularly impressed by how you managed to skip Pluto's first level, and that allowed you to come back to it later. It was polite of you to do all your merges before Pluto appeared.
You can remove 2 snapshots by making #21 more efficient. Good luck!
Well done! It's interesting to see other people's strategies. I usually ignore that first jetpack, while you made 10 branches coming off it! I kinda wish I had made a shorter game, just so it would be easier to share screenshots of the album.
I probably cheesed a lot of puzzles by bringing everything from other levels and infinitely refilling the jetpack fuel to 4 (by making a snapshot where its at 5 fuel, then, every time you need to refill, making a branch where it changes to 4 and merging it with the current snaphot). But anyway, the game is great, I loved the mechanics (btw I never used revert, so I can’t tell anything about it lol).
I couldn't figure out how to do Pluto (ended up with 42, the extras being in the third room), though I did realize you can skip doing the puzzles properly by just bringing in a ladder/jetpack/key from an earlier room. I opted not to since it felt like the requirement was set to not need to do that.
I wasn't sure how to solve the jetpack revert puzzle so I just snapshotted and refilled my fuel in midair. The specific rules around when a dropping an object makes it not come with you are really confusing and I don't actually get them. Like, I was able to bring a ladder with me to get to the second trophy (although not a green key because they've all been spent... could get around that by reverting the respective green door open commit, but I got too lazy) but when I tried to bring a jetpack or trophy it just didn't let me for some reason.
Thanks! It means a lot to me that you've gone into so much detail.
It's intended that you're able to skip levels by smuggling items from earlier levels. That being said, it is possible to beat Pluto's third room in 6 snapshots without smuggling items (or abusing the physics engine).
I like your work-around for the jetpack revert puzzle! When you revert a snapshot that involved you picking up an item, the item will go back to its original position. To avoid this, take an extra snapshot after you pick up the jetpack but before you use it.
The rule about dropping items in a Merge is that it depends on the snapshot where the branches diverged. Here's an example:
Since I'm carrying the key in Snapshot #1, the game will focus on the fact that I dropped the key in the top branch, so I wouldn't get the key in Snapshot #6. If I wasn't carrying the key in Snapshot #1 then I would be carrying it in Snapshot #6.
I hope that made sense and that you can apply that explanation to the trophies. Good luck!
Fun game, very challenging. Got Liv, Pearl, and Basil in my final snapshot, as well as one trophy (the last one). Unfortunately I wasn't able to get the first trophy because I had dropped it much earlier in the timeline, and I couldn't figure out how to get the second one. I also wasn't able to satisfy Pluto since I would have had to undo a big chunk of my progress. Maybe if I had a second album that tracked changes to the first...
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My top scores (but arguably I was using glitches):
Total Snapshots: 30
Merges: 10
Reverts: 0
Merge Conflicts: 0
Snapshots with Liv: 4
Snapshots with Pluto: 3
Trophies found: 3
Doors climbed over: 37
https://youtu.be/playlist?list=PLfKGsE_mI0WaP_UwuIXO2Xt-vtF6HDXYM
My favourite video was 3 snapshots with Pluto, and my favourite parts across all videos were all the different ways you solved Pluto's 4th level (2 red boxes).
The funny thing is that I added the "door feels upset" message to discourage exploits, and instead you took it as an invitation to cheat even harder! I had no idea that it was possible to upset some of those doors.
I'm pretty sure that the tall-ladder glitch is required to reach 0 conflicts and the demo-28 message. I'm tempted to patch the infinite jetpack exploit, but I also believe that anyone who finds that exploit deserves to use it.
Thank you for playing my game.
I challenged myself to try find the minimum Total Snapshots required to beat the game. I got it down to 70
Congrats, you have beaten me at my own game!
That was real sneaky the way you got from #34 to #35. It took me ages to figure out how you did that.
I'm particularly impressed by how you managed to skip Pluto's first level, and that allowed you to come back to it later. It was polite of you to do all your merges before Pluto appeared.
You can remove 2 snapshots by making #21 more efficient. Good luck!
I found a way to bring 3 brown keys, 2 green keys, and 1 blue key to the end (;
Using the power of reverts you can bring literally every item to the end
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hahaha that is so cursed!
My headcanon has been that the Dino picks up keys by inhaling sharply, and then balances other keys on top of the bottom key.
I'll need to come up with a new theory now that I've seen your screenshot.
Oh yeah I did slightly wonder how it held things without arms
a winner is me yay (:
Well done! It's interesting to see other people's strategies. I usually ignore that first jetpack, while you made 10 branches coming off it!
I kinda wish I had made a shorter game, just so it would be easier to share screenshots of the album.
I think I broke it
I know for a fact I can improve some of these numbers if I tried again, but I'm very happy with my first playthrough :D
Very cool game!
Basil outsmarted me
I'm really glad someone found this. Basil's game was my favourite part to make.
That's right, you saw nothing.
I 100% the game!
I probably cheesed a lot of puzzles by bringing everything from other levels and infinitely refilling the jetpack fuel to 4 (by making a snapshot where its at 5 fuel, then, every time you need to refill, making a branch where it changes to 4 and merging it with the current snaphot). But anyway, the game is great, I loved the mechanics (btw I never used revert, so I can’t tell anything about it lol).
Great work! I'm impressed that you managed to do that without using Reverts.
I haven't seen a lot of people use the jetpack to cheese levels. You're also the first person that I've seen to recieve the "Doors climbed over" stat.
Yeah, I think I discovered a pretty interesting way to cheese absolutely everything lol
Nice game.
I couldn't figure out how to do Pluto (ended up with 42, the extras being in the third room), though I did realize you can skip doing the puzzles properly by just bringing in a ladder/jetpack/key from an earlier room. I opted not to since it felt like the requirement was set to not need to do that.
I wasn't sure how to solve the jetpack revert puzzle so I just snapshotted and refilled my fuel in midair. The specific rules around when a dropping an object makes it not come with you are really confusing and I don't actually get them. Like, I was able to bring a ladder with me to get to the second trophy (although not a green key because they've all been spent... could get around that by reverting the respective green door open commit, but I got too lazy) but when I tried to bring a jetpack or trophy it just didn't let me for some reason.
Thanks! It means a lot to me that you've gone into so much detail.
It's intended that you're able to skip levels by smuggling items from earlier levels. That being said, it is possible to beat Pluto's third room in 6 snapshots without smuggling items (or abusing the physics engine).
I like your work-around for the jetpack revert puzzle! When you revert a snapshot that involved you picking up an item, the item will go back to its original position. To avoid this, take an extra snapshot after you pick up the jetpack but before you use it.
The rule about dropping items in a Merge is that it depends on the snapshot where the branches diverged. Here's an example:
Since I'm carrying the key in Snapshot #1, the game will focus on the fact that I dropped the key in the top branch, so I wouldn't get the key in Snapshot #6. If I wasn't carrying the key in Snapshot #1 then I would be carrying it in Snapshot #6.
I hope that made sense and that you can apply that explanation to the trophies. Good luck!
OH MY GOD IT GOT UPDATED dude i loved this game i stayed up until like 3am playing it with my friend.
Awesome! I'd love to see the solution you two came up with.
Excellent, I'll show it to my students.
Any easy way to erase my progress? I tried deleting local storage but it didn't work.
Awesome! I'm glad this is being used educationally.
You can erase your progress in the game by selecting Snapshot #0 then pressing the delete button.
I really like it so far.
I just wish there was a non-browser version.
Thanks!
Itch has an app that lets you play their browser games in a separate window: https://itch.io/app.
Could you try using this first, and if it doesn't work the way you want it to then let me know and I'll build an exe that you can download.
Thanks, this is better, but still not perfect for me.
So if you could buil an exe, I would be thankful. :)
I've uploaded it, though I warn you I've barely tested that it works. Enjoy!
Thank you very much! It seems to work fine. :)
Fun game, very challenging. Got Liv, Pearl, and Basil in my final snapshot, as well as one trophy (the last one). Unfortunately I wasn't able to get the first trophy because I had dropped it much earlier in the timeline, and I couldn't figure out how to get the second one. I also wasn't able to satisfy Pluto since I would have had to undo a big chunk of my progress. Maybe if I had a second album that tracked changes to the first...
I'm glad you found it fun, and good job getting so many of the bonuses!
You can still reclaim the first trophy if you create a branch starting at a different snapshot. There's also a way to get it using a Revert.
I like that idea of putting the album in a bigger album. It's always amusing when a puzzle game becomes recursive :D
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Thanks for posting. There's so much more ahead. Is there something you could have brought with you to get out the hole?