The kids and I had a blast playing Baba is You this morning, and it brought up ancient memories of playing Sokoban puzzles (where all you can do push crates around; in particular no pulling). Now I want to play Sokoban on my phone. https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/sir-box-a-lot contains 300 publicly available Sokoban puzzles. It turns out the C syntax that those puzzles are encoded in is just a few search-and-replaces from being perfectly valid and usable Lua. So far I can render the starting state.

Oh nice! I love sokoban games. (There are even some good ones that do have pulling!) If you get this running, I will play it.

Here's a playable iteration of the game: https://akkartik.itch.io/sokoban

I'm a big fan of "A Monster's Expedition through puzzling exhibitions." It isn't needlessly difficult, but simultaneously has some mind blowing mechanics https://store.steampowered.com/app/1052990/A_Monsters_Expedition/.

Somehow, just using the arrow keys, I made a copy of the character sprite, and when I touch it with my character it opens a code editor?

Opening the code editor might be a sign it's throwing an error message. If it happens again could you look for a message in the output window (bottom half of screen)? 🙏

Unable to select the text, so here's a screenshot

Amazing ❤️ I can't reproduce this at all. What device are you on?

Power Macintosh Professional macOS OS X (Ten) 14 (Fourteen) Sonoma

I just got it to happen! Nice race condition. Seems to be harder to trigger on Linux, but I can still do it by trying to hit left and right arrows at once.

Solving really fast

This broke my mental model of LÖVE for a few minutes, but no I was doing something naughty: introducing side effects when drawing a frame.

I'm having a hard time figuring out how to download the updated version

I updated the page in place. The old file sokoban-aa shouldn't be available anymore. Now you should see sokoban-af. It's in the same place on the page but it's a new file. Feel free to delete sokoban-aa. Does that help?

"in place" — on itch.io?

Yeah exactly. Great.

Is there a way to see which puzzle number I'm looking at? I want to try 42 after hearing you talk about it on Masto

You should see a level number. It's near the top left of the puzzle in landscape mode or centered above the puzzle in portrait mode. But I think it might get hard to spot if the window is close to square..

yeah

Ouch. Will fix.

Oh, it's fine

Those buttons are also overlapping.

Yeah — I was wondering "seems undo is broken"

I've definitely seen a level immediately after a hard one be easy. But it's possible they're more linear after 106. I gather 1-106 is the kiddie pool.