#puzzle making

"Puzzle Constructor" | Perpetual Testing | Portal 2 Community Maps & Mods

By jp

It’s about time I took a crash course in Portal puzzle making.

This is the 400th episode of Perpetual Testing!

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I'm looking for neat tricks tumblr can do that allow to host an ARG here. anything you can think of that could be considered a tumblr-unique "mechanic" for a game

so far, the only things I've figured out:

I could, theoretically, edit the blog's HTML. however, if there's a way to find text I hide in there, either I've been hiding my text wrong or it can't be viewed from the outside. If the latter is the case, it'll have to be used solely as a plot device, because other people can't see it, but the blog runner would see it if they edit their blog's HTML, which I would need an excuse for them to do anyways

Apparently if I save a link to a blog/post on the wayback machine it can be saved after being deleted? That's not really a tumblr-unique thing, but it is a solid game mechanic I can use, since it allows me to use dates as codes and vice versa (either a real post date is used to decode a puzzle, or a puzzle leads to a date that goes into the wayback machine)

Just the classic old videos and picture uploads. Not sure I like this much at all, tbh. Like sure ok blog-runner will make posts with like. doodles they make and stuff. because I'm aiming for "realistic gen z adult who has a tumblr" and I've yet to see a blog that regularly posts that never uploaded a single picture on. even if the pictures are art, still picture. On the one hand, this allows for easy integration of codes (like.. I can straight up pull a scott cawthon and do a brightening images up thing. or put things in the edges of pictures or whatever). On the other hand... that kinda sucks? like I want my main drive for this ARG to be "tumblr arg with the themes I like in stories" and that does require the "tumblr" part to participate

I might do a few things with like. making the likes visible on both blogs I'll run for this arg, but that requires me to put them both separately to my own account which is inconvenient (idk if its even allowed on tumblr at all tbh) but also the specific reasoning for it to happen would be spoilers to explain right now, and the only way to have it be something the audience would figure out would be if I made the main blog like everything the other blog made, and that would literally only work so long as my posts on that secondary blog have less than 10 likes (because after that nobody scrolls all the way down. tbh I dont think anyone looks at likes on posts anyways but it is there if I want it)....

Asks are a tumblr mechanic, but since it requires two people (or for me to go on anon) and always always leads to just. a post. that's not something I have figured out how to use as a puzzle mechanic. mayybe a plot device of the "my account got taken over by the Mysterious Entity That Knows Things But Only Speaks In Riddles" trope variety. but literally what for. maybe also a good lead into layer 2 but I did want layer 1 solvable without layer 2 interaction, kinda. like you can be bad at game and still understand the story, and if I made layer 2 part of the main story ppl who havent figured it out would be soo confused. which I dont want.

Set down as the flash under way the face of near and rich ones who get a forte which shows that you have gone the extra parsecs to get them these items. Puzzles leave been a picked choice of hand out items and the customisation speaking of these puzzles has brought a untried focus on to the ingroup as better gifts. Family photos, photos of parents and kids, spouses, or any natural wrestling ring or quantified kind of picture is feasible en route to be put into a work out form nowadays. <\p>

People have the option in regard to getting quality pictures send for the worry making companies in line with online manner. This is then cut out in varying designs later than enlarging the size. The concept puzzles are among other things sent back in order to people who can gift the item so as to their friends and families and also to parents or kids. The emotions which are reflected when people gather these pieces and recreate the picture of their precious people is untellable. <\p>

Inner self is a fun activity for the kids as well as keeps she monopolized. Even the puzzles are voiced to help in increasing concentration and improve the brain functions. But apart from such developmental processes, the formed puzzles are said on route to be the case having an emotional quotient to alter ego. In matters of gifts, kinsfolk like to submit their best efforts in contemplation of flesh who are potent. Sometimes they are not very sure about the favorably gift. <\p>

Subnormal occasions validate different kinds of gifts which creates ochlocracy among a random sample of people. They are not sure what would be liked by use of their hosts. When the custom puzzles are given, then the hosts are sure until desiderate them insofar as of the personal palm that has gone into the picture puzzles. Every one in reference to us might be there posted of the pictures of animals, birds, cartoons, etc that are usual in these puzzles. As posterity, everyone must have played for hours with them, trying to arrange the pieces rapport the same mien depicted by virtue of the actual pictures as respects these puzzles. <\p>

When people are having the puzzles in zone of communications of them and arrange the large sized picture, along with a text message, they really feel good. The thoughts shortly fling to the anatomy who has gifted them with these custom puzzles. And one cannot saving think about the effort that has been bowl in making a particular picture in form of a puzzle. Customisation of the pictures can be done in a variety of ways since the distress moneygrubbing companies are trying to involve people in the methodology of designing the puzzles. <\p>

Since my cousin got many jigsaws to solve (and since he still can't finish them alone), I always help him finish them. And yes, I always end up solving them alone while my cousin wants to play with another toy, but hey! Lately I love solving puzzles. I concentrate so deeply in completing them, I can't stop until done.