Comments on: kompression

By: IndieGames.com - The Weblog Browser Game Pick: kompression (Stephen Lavelle)

IndieGames.com - The Weblog Browser Game Pick: kompression (Stephen Lavelle) — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:11:51 +0000

[…] kompression is another neat puzzle game made by Stephen Lavelle, featuring no instructions but simple-to-understand rules that you can figure out just by spending a couple of minutes playing through the first few levels. Presented with a grid-like layout, your task here is to remove the numbers five at a time until only one digit remains on the board. Whenever the numbers converge, it will also cause the lines above and beside it to be pulled inwards. […]

By: Laura Palmer

Laura Palmer — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:20:50 +0000

I don’t think it’s meant to be intuitive. I think the numbers are meant to be disorienting. Wouldn’t be much of a game without an aspect of confusion.

By: Brainy Games for Your iPad – FIND PUZZLE

Brainy Games for Your iPad – FIND PUZZLE — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:44:47 +0000

[…] nonplus games that we can play in your browser; my favorites are Snowdrift and Compression. Happy […]

By: John Baber

John Baber — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:58:24 +0000

I agree colors would be more intuitive.

By: zaphos

zaphos — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 23:36:30 +0000

I’m imagining this would be a bit better if you used colors in addition to numbers … would make the pre-process bit of ‘look for all the + patterns’ easier, so shift more focus to the ‘meat’ of the puzzle …

By: Jasper

Jasper — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:48:25 +0000

Very satisfying.

By: K

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:00:04 +0000

Cool game. Strange how my friends say this messes with their minds while I can effortlessly complete it.

By: mcc

mcc — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:29:46 +0000

As the game started, found myself returning to the thought that it would be interesting sometime to try to graph out the decision trees of some of these kinds of puzzle games.

Then got to what I think was the final puzzle and wound up unable to solve it except by actually attempting a BFS of said decision tree. Mapped out a pretty large space of it in TextEdit, then got distracted by a phone call and lost my place :| I could have just restarted from the root but decided instead to call that a stopping place for now at least.

FYI, in the early levels I found myself fooled into thinking the debris at the beginning of the level was somehow spawning from the outcome of the previous level, then wondering if it might be some of these puzzles had more than one solution and you could therefore screw yourself over at the beginning of the next puzzle by choosing the “wrong” one.

By: Weeble

Weeble — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:05:28 +0000

Nice game. Felt about the right length. I think I finished it more by brute force than any particular application of logic.