pnm wrote:
anyone have ideas for other achievements?
Me, me, me!
I've played lots of casual games, like
MS Solitaire,
MS Mahjong,
MS Minesweeper,
MS Jigsaw, so I've encountered a bunch of tasks, from nearly impossible (“Complete an Expert Classic Jigsaw puzzle by finishing the interior before attaching the edge pieces”
© Jigsaw, “Defeat 10 snakes without defeating other monsters in-between”
© Minesweeper) to those that are assigned automatically if you simply keep playing meticulously (e.g. “Read the tutorial”, “Complete all daily challenges”). And there were some funny ones, like “Fill the entire field with flags” in Minesweeper, which is basically
click-click-click – 81 times or so.
Basing on those achievements, I've come up with a few ideas of what could be applied to Calcudoku (in no particular order):
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Good memorySolve a non-Easy puzzle without using the pencil tool
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I want it that wayAlter both the board scale and the position of the numpad
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In the nick of timeSolve any puzzle (for the first time) a minute before deadline
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The winner takes it allSolve all
* puzzles of a certain day in time (i.e. receive points for each and every puzzle)
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StepwiseSolve all
* today's puzzles before the day ends
and in the exact order they are listed, e.g. Easy 4×4 → Easy 5×5 → Easy Killer → Easy Sudoku → Medium 4×4 → Medium 6×6 → ………
// This might be tricky, because the website will offer the next unsolved puzzles in the wrong order
* When speaking of “all puzzles”, perhaps we should exclude the three paid ones.•
MedleySolve every non-standard
** puzzle: modulo, bitwise, power, subtraction only, starting with zero…
** The list should probably exclude 15×15, −3 to 3 and other extras that are available to subscribers only and never to regular users.•
Treasure troveSolve a bonus puzzle
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New readerSubmit a solution of a book puzzle
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BookwormSubmit all solutions within a book
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Perfectionist (subscribers only)
Solve all today's puzzles before the day ends (i.e. have the entire puzzle list– bar, whatever – painted green)
// Of course the titles and descriptions are rough.
Also, I'd like to note that the series of casual games I've mentioned has got several types of awards.
Achievements like “Solve [a certain set of fields]”, or “Win a game of FreeCell without exceeding 7 cards in a column”
© Solitaire, or “When clearing the board, save a pair of golden tiles for last”
© Mahjong, will stay in your profile forever, while new
badges can be earned each month by solving daily tasks (but the previous ones still remain visible, too).
MS Solitaire goes even further: in addition to
achievements for classic games and
badges for daily challenges, they award
bracelets for daily events (the ones where you compete against other members), and these bracelets get cumulated in your profile, i.e. after solving 500 tasks you will have five bracelets of the type “100 tasks solved”, and you might have a dozen “Expert level solved in less than five minutes”, and forty “I’m in Top-10”, and a couple of “Third place”, et cetera, et cetera. Here's just some random pic from Google for reference:
https://filestore.community.support.mic ... pload=trueWhat I'm trying to say is: maybe some achievements need a counter of how many times they were, um, achieved?