Knight With a Message
This was submitted for the Single Choice Jam in 2023. The first release was 1:50 AM Central, 8/12/2023.
The room with branches is the one where you choose the quest/puzzle.
Each move of the quest has only one option, even if some squares may be colored in as potential choices.
The sidebar links to a CREDITS page and the options page, which toggles normal mode (see possible moves) and hard.
While this is a trivial puzzle in that you cannot solve it wrong, the author hopes it is instructional as to how to solve a well-known but tricky puzzle.
Oh, choose just the first option if you're not interested in technical details.
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This is honestly the only way you will make me play chess :P
Making the knight into a messenger was fun!
Thanks, that's what I was going for -- and thanks for going across all the entries and keeping your intfiction thread going!
That was a fun experience and a clever use of the platform! I liked limiting the choices as a learning tool--like playing sudoku with autocheck on. And the story made it fun, too. Nice work!
I’m not a chess player, but I’m aware of the Knight’s tour, so I appreciate the lesson, but I found it hard to relate the framing narrative to the actual gameplay. You are meant to me a messenger going … somewhere?
I guess the intention is that you have to visit every square, because each square is a colour coded village, but the talk of forests, and sentries, and repeated patterns made it harder for me to understand instead of easier, I think. And there was some cognitive dissonance when I saw the board and it didn’t have forests or roads or indeed villages on it. All the more so because there is a town/house on it, but that doesn’t actually mean anything in the fiction (even though it does to the puzzle).
One other thought. If the idea is to actually test the player’s understanding, maybe suppress the “action” cursor on the correct choice, because as it is you can just wave the mouse around and see which one to click.