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Show HN: I made a little puzzle game about a rogue chess knight

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149 points freetonik | 1 comments | 29 Mar 25 14:02 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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yubiox ◴[31 Mar 25 20:42 UTC] No.43539734[source]▶
4872 first game. I got all the pieces on every level except the first because I didn't realize you could. Pretty fun and I don't even play chess. Are the levels designed by hand or generated?
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vikingerik ◴[31 Mar 25 22:26 UTC] No.43540632[source]▶
They must be generated. Hand designed levels probably wouldn't have things like pawns on the first rank, or four opposing rooks, or situations where the first move unavoidably loses points.
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1. HenryBemis ◴[01 Apr 25 22:11 UTC] No.43551866[source]▶
I had a similar thought, randomly generated in 'strength'/points and positions. Pawns on first row are impossible, and last row turn to Queens (or whatever).

There must be a 'relative position' though in the mix of the algorithm, because on some levels the pieces are scattered in the four corners and some others they are on 'perfect-knight-stepping-sequence' so I could take 5-6 pieces in 5-6 moves and then exit.