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Mouse-operated swordfighting by ~ranma-tim:iconranma-tim:

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©2005-2010 ~ranma-tim
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This is my entry for the Puzzle Pirates 'Slice of piratey life' contest. One of the puzzle games in PP is 'swordfighting' (which plays like Puzzle Fighter, apparently), so I decided to show a cross-section of the puzzle indicating how it is actually operated by mice. Two weeks of pondering and designing, then working Friday night through to 4am Monday morning (Sunday 11:59pm PST deadline = Monday 8am deadline in the UK!) with just a bit of a break over Saturday evening. I still had to miss out some of the ideas I wanted to include just to keep things clear while meeting the contest's size restriction (1280x1024).

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~ranma-tim Aug 27, 2005, 2:59:21 AM
Well... I won!! [link]
Super yay! :w00t: :winner: :w00t:

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~juststupid101 Nov 13, 2005, 9:40:02 AM
realy nice artwork and explaination of this it rocks also i'm in cobalt look me up sometime my name is warwaves

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~kameleonkat Mar 30, 2006, 1:54:56 PM
awesome! i love that game!
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~FictitiousSky Jul 9, 2006, 2:02:36 PM
OMG this is so cool! I wish those mice would give me some more breakers though :p
:+fav:

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~kitty2385 Sep 9, 2006, 5:11:08 AM
wow, awesome cute mice. i wondered where all the music came from and who gave me all little blocks...

Just wondering though, what hapens to those little mice in the blocks when a sword comes down? =P

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Mood: Satisfied ~ranma-tim Sep 10, 2006, 9:05:38 AM
Good question! As I said, I had to miss out ideas to keep things clear, but here's how it's supposed to go.

There's two reasons for mice to be in blocks on the playfield; dropping blocks and gray blocks. They get in the dropping blocks so that they can separate the two halves if necessary; after the block has been dropped they climb down the back of the blocks and come out at the bottom to help recycle parts, and then they can go and get some cheese. The grey blocks have four sides; plain grey, grey with a picture of a sword, the full colour block, and the fourth side which has a door for them to get in and out of. The mice in these blocks are there to rotate them, you see, and when they do the final rotation they then climb out.

As swords come in, any blocks they replace are supposed to be pushed backwards and fall down to the bottom of the board (just as when pieces are broken by breakers). Any mice that happen not to have gotten out of the blocks as this happens should be okay - the terminal velocity of a falling mouse being less than the fatal velocity. At least, I hope it is. One of the design goals was to avoid harm coming to any mice!

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Life is not a zero-sum game.
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Mood: Love ~KarenKaren Nov 25, 2007, 1:57:33 PM
lol AWSOME! XD I love pp, specially swordfighting, but you have to be REALLY creative to come up with such an idea!!! +10
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*Obaba Dec 26, 2007, 1:52:19 PM
Oh my gosh! I loved this entry when I first saw it. It reminded me of my old Richard Scarry books with a ton of stuff going on.

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~McTweeter Jan 20, 2008, 1:05:46 PM
Mice... swords... IT ALL MAKES SENSE!!!

XDDD, love this picture. It's creative, and it (sort of) explains how it works.

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