Hello All,
I recently learned that the boomslang is a type of snake, and they look so cool that I had to name this update after them.
To make the flow of the levels more logical, I added five more introductory levels and rearranged the order of the levels to provide a smoother difficulty curve. Then because of the new level ordering, I updated the map to make the intended completion path more clear.
I couldn’t resist throwing in some harder puzzles too. Try them if you dare! Note that if you did the thanks or secret levels, they will be removed from your snake and placed in their new map positions because I completely changed them.
Level changes
- Added new tutorial levels - The Test (level 4), Small Hallway (5), Slider (6), Chessboard (7), Antenna (8)
- Added new hard levels - Padlock (67), Do You Love Picross? (68), and ???. I replaced the old thanks level with "Do You Love Picross?" and the old secret level with "???"
- Sprawl (64) was slightly changed to make the level easier to see
Other changes
- All the levels (especially the non-gate puzzles) were completely reordered, and the map was updated to fit this
- Moved the gray x that appears when a gate is unsatisfied behind the gate text so that the number on the gate is a little easier to read
- Fixed a game-crashing bug involving unsatisfied gates moving boxes when pushed
- Fixed a bug where the internal direction of the one-block-long snake did not match the displayed direction at the start of the map
- Added water around levels 2 and 3 so that they cannot be pushed into the snake’s reset position
- Added the feature that the snake is sorted by level number when reset
- Decreased the size of the level name text slightly so that it wouldn’t cover level tiles
- Made some changes to the storage format of the levels and the save file, there shouldn’t be any visible differences though
Contact me if you find bugs or have suggestions!