Great work, Yoyo+!
I think your game is coming along really well, and feels very full-featured and polished already. I particularly like the following things:
1) The harder levels really are very challenging.
2) The scribble support. This, IMO, makes all the difference in being able to solve difficult Sudokus on the GP2X in practice. Very nicely implemented, and credit also to the guy who suggested it.
3) The mistake checking. I think this is a nice feature, both conceptually and how it's implemented visually. I don't think it makes the game too easy, at least not if one doesn't abuse it on purpose.
4) The game is overall very visually polished and appealing.
After playing the game quite a bit, I also have some ideas for possible improvements. Please don't take these the wrong way -- I realize that it's your game and that you cannot implement all the request from everybody on the internet. These are just things that occurred to me, they may or may not be feasible in your implementation.
A) It would speed up things a bit if one could hold down the control stick to move faster on the grid.
B) It would be really nice to be able to remove one scribbled number. So if you have 4 numbers scribbled and manage to eliminate one of the possibilities you could remove the eliminated number without re-entering the others. This could be achieved control-wise by re-scribbling the already scribbled number again.
C) It would be cool if one could scribble two different colors. Then one could use one color for unconfirmed guesses ("pencil in") and another for the rest of the possibilities. If a guess then turns out to be false one can still see the other scribbled possibilities.
D) Ok, this may not work well in practice, but it would be nice to be able to enter numbers faster (not having to press L-L-L-L or R-R-R-R all the time). The idea I was thinking about was that if one holds one of the entering buttons (A for normal entering or Y for scribble) *and* presses a direction on the stick, the number that is entered could depend on the direction pressed, like this:
Code:
1 2 3
\ | /
4- -6
/ | \
7 8 9
Pressing down the stick could be used for 5. This way, it would be possible to e.g. quickly scribble four different numbers in succession.
Anyway, enough crazy ideas from me. Great work on your game, you should be really proud of it.
/Khell
