the game.

...

this game.

That's better.

Joking aside that seems like a great project. Will you be able to post screenshots soon?

Nice. Are they mostly mockups or do you have some of the coding (besides the engine you are using) done?

I know it's a double post. Just got a screenshot going of what I have so far.

The way I do it is a rather roundabout way, since I built it using structures provided by the E:SoR menu system and rendering routines. I'm basically using a piece of the game's "textshadow" buffer as an array.

The way you should probably do it is to keep your table in something like a matrix or some 2D array. This table should be completely independent of the image you're supposed to be making, but... the contents of this array should be something like sprites where an empty tile would be... well. Empty. A [ ] tile would be some other value, and x tiles would be yet another value. When you go to compare the contents of the game area to the image you're supposed to be recreating, just recreate a binary of the image given your [ ] tiles versus your non-marked tiles. Non-marked would be 0 and [ ] tiles would be 1, where the x tiles would be ignored in the reconstruction of the image.

Should the image match what you have, then you've won the game. If you are trying to do something like a timer and penalize the player for incorrectly marking a tile as [ ], then you should try something like the following:

After you have reconstructed the image, compare it against the original in this manner:

(original xor playarea) and playarea

If there's any nonzero things as a result of that operation, then you know that a player tried to chisel out a tile in the wrong spot.

At any rate, and to attempt to answer your question...

I find it better to keep your images as a binary, and your play area as an array. Only when the array changes between a marked [ ] tile and an unmarked tile, should the array be silently converted in the background back to a binary file and compared directly between your source or solution image.

Changed the mid-border line to black. It was white. I think it looks better.

The game can now tell if you've won. When you start marking the board white, a small number appears below the title thing. When it turns to a "1", you know you've solved the thing. You can see me playing around with it.

And, yes. I'm looking at the solution as I'm doing the puzzle, so don't get any ideas. I just wanted a quick way to test the thing out.

Maybe tomorrow, I'll make it a little fancier.

Very nice! 

Although I've never played this game.