{"id":4582,"date":"2013-04-26T13:35:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T13:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielprimed.com\/?p=4582"},"modified":"2013-04-23T13:45:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T13:45:55","slug":"the-beauty-of-picross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/2013\/04\/the-beauty-of-picross\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beauty of Picross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/1062a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4583 aligncenter\" title=\"1062a\" src=\"http:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/1062a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/1062a.jpg 264w, https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/1062a-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve only just started the 15&#215;15 puzzles, but I thought that I&#8217;d jot down a few ideas about <em>Picross DS<\/em>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Although Picross can sometimes seem impenetrable, the player can never get stuck, it&#8217;s all a matter of looking at the numbers and figuring things out logically.<\/li>\n<li>Hidden behind the simple premise are a range of deduction techniques that the player internalises through play. One of the game&#8217;s strengths is how these techniques organically emerge from the basic set of rules. You can read about them <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nonograms\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Because the player makes deductions by adding information to the board and deductions are made based on the current available information, every time a deduction is made, the nature of the puzzle is fundamentally altered. So in order to solve a puzzle, the player must continually re-adjust their mental orientation.<\/li>\n<li>The player can often make more than one deduction at the one time, so two players can solve a puzzle in two entirely different ways.<\/li>\n<li>Picross is about the way small actions build to a greater whole.<\/li>\n<li>Because information is Picross&#8217;s currency, filled squares are just as important as crossed squares, even though crossed squares don&#8217;t etch out the image. This is why punctuation is so critical.<\/li>\n<li>There should be a third camera control option for 15&#215;15 puzzles, where the grid is large enough that the player must manually control the camera, that allows the player to move the camera with the d-pad and fill in squares with the stylus. This would prevent the player from having to manually switch back and forth between the scrolling and input functions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Like <em>Crosswords DS<\/em>, which I&#8217;ve been playing semi-regularly for 3 years now, I guess it&#8217;ll take me a long time to finish <em>Picross DS<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve only just started the 15&#215;15 puzzles, but I thought that I&#8217;d jot down a few ideas about Picross DS. Although Picross can sometimes seem impenetrable, the player can never get stuck, it&#8217;s all a matter of looking at the numbers and figuring things out logically. Hidden behind the simple premise are a range of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[409],"tags":[817],"class_list":["post-4582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-discussion","tag-picross"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4582"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4589,"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582\/revisions\/4589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielprimed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}