Electric Jigsaw Puzzle game

[3h]

Hello everybody,
several weeks ago I wrote an online jigsaw game. I tried to do my best and I'm interested in your opinion. Here is a link (it's a Facebook game so requires Facebook account):



And looks like this:


What do you think? What are your ideas?
Thanks, Tom

[puzzle]

Hello,
I am sorry but I don't have a Facebook account.

I have played with some on-line jigsaw puzzle games and my opinion that they are good for time wasting, like other games (cards, dices, ...) nothing compared to real ones.

[3h]

All right
In a matter of fact my aim was to create an online game as close to mechanical jigsaw puzzles as possible. Obviously it's still quite different from real game
I made a temporary, direct link for you:



Invitations and publishing won't work. In some time I will prepare a real off-facebook version

[selene]

Hi Tom!
Welcome to our website!

I have tried your puzzle and I liked it, it's quite similar to other online puzzles. Though, I think the maximum number of pieces is too much to do it online because of the time you have to spend looking at the screen, it could be very tiring for your eyes.

I would reduce the possible number of pieces. Or if it could be possible you could work out something to save the progress and continue later (I suppose this is not possible unless you login or something like that?)

The pictures are nice

Good luck!

[selene]

Wow I just realized you can select a lot of pieces at the same time and move them together to clear space. That's a good idea!

[selene]

Two pieces got united accidentally and now I can't turn them so I can't finish the puzzle.

I think you should be able to turn a group of pieces too.

[3h]

Nice to meet you, selene

sory about this bug, it has never happened before and I couldn't reproduce it. I've just made several improvements to prevent sth like this to happen again. It should never be possible to join pieces that are not rotated properly.

As for the maximum number of pieces it is really high. Even more than 2000 pieces if you have 1920x1080 (HD) resolution. And max jigsaw I composed was 300 pieces with rotations turned off and it was finished by my wife actually . But I'm not an expert . I agree that saving a game would be a nice option and I plan to do it although it's quite hard to do technically. Untill then we can set lower numbers of pieces . I could even try to do it without "logging in" mechanism.

Comparing to other online games that I found on internet Electric Jigsaw Puzzle has some new features:

- wider range of pieces to cut image into - lets say from 8 to 2000 (depends on screen resolution)
- each jigsaw is generated randomly, plugs and holes are in random places and even puzzle shapes are random so each jigsaw is different
- you can scale your image using the white arrow
- full advantage of fullscreen mode (however I realize some players don't like fullscreen)
- nice high resolution pictures

thanks for your advices

[selene]

[3h]

Wow, 620 with rotations - impressive
I currently work on a version that doesn't require neither full screen nor Facebook. Should be ready soon. Then I will look closer to the rotation issue.
Thanks for feedback, selene

[3h]

All right guys - I prepared a non-fullscreen, non-facebook version so everyone could try it:



Note - this version allows less puzzle pieces as it takes only web browser's window.

P.S. The previous link I supplied is now inactive

[3h]

I managed to add also a "save game" option. So now composing a 1000 or 2000 pieces jigsaw is not so painful

[francisco]

[naleiged2]

Wow I just realized you can select a lot of pieces at the same time and move them together to clear space.

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