Hey guys, I'm back!

I made a new game demo, this time of Sudoku!


Use the arrow keys to move the selection cursor. Press a number key (0-9) to enter a number in a square (0 means erase). In each empty square, pencilmarks have been added to show the possible candidates for the square. If there are no candidates, you made a wrong step in filling a square and have to try again. The program quits if all squares are filled in correctly or you press CLEAR.

There is a sample puzzle coded in, but if you want to change the puzzle, change GDB1 in the source file and recompile. The setup should be obvious for a puzzle, but please let me know if you have any questions.

Source file (ASUDOKU.8xp) and program file (SUDOKU.8xp) attached. Tell me your opinions so far.

Wow, this looks really great, i love how you organized everything! It would be nice to have a pack with several puzzles in it, though. Downloading immediately

I also love your 2048 clone. Your games are filling up my calc

Thank you. This layout was actually the reason I made it, because every other Sudoku clone I saw either had no pencilmarks, showed them poorly, or was on the 89.

The final game will hopefully have a random puzzle generator. I'm getting to work on that.

Also, do you just have my Axe games, or my BASIC games as well? I have more BASIC games than are on ticalc.org, but it would take a clever search to find them...

Nice to see you back , you should stick around more


I like the game layout so far, although I think screenshots could use some better WabbitEmu settings.

Noticed that as soon as I posted, but was already getting off the computer when I posted. I changed the settings, though, and the next screenshots will have gray, I promise

Also, school keeps me busy, and I had no real motivation to post here (there's at least one little quick-and-dirty BASIC program on my calc I never got around to posting, and even though I figured out a fix for the win bug in TI-2048, I never updated :\ ). But now I have finally posted something, and have a motivation to come back.

Aah ok. I was worried you were done with Omni because you posted Vine projects and videos on Twitter every few hour each day, but no longer cross-posted them here, and at one point I thought you got fed up with Omni due to lack of Code Golf entries or something. I'm glad that isn't the case, though.

Don't worry, I never got fed up, just busy. The contests took up more time than I thought. If you were moderator, you'd understand (also, lack of projects and ideas for projects )

Once I get done with manual pencilmarks, I'll post an update ASAP.

A couple thoughts and ideas:
-it would be really cool to have an undo button. I don't think it'd be too hard to do as you'd just need an array of the last few entries (like a miniature stack).
-it would also be nice to not have the pencil marks automatically update, ie. be able to type them in yourself. Maybe holding [2nd] or [Alpha] while pressing a number could update the pencil marks? With them updating automatically it can make it a bit too easy. So perhaps an option to turn that on/off?
-maybe adding a quicker way to jump between the 3x3 squares? (eg. [ + ]/[ - ] to cycle horizontally and [ x ]/[ ÷ ] to cycle vertically)
-it also might make sense to add [Del] as an alternative to [ 0 ] for erasing a number.

All in all i think it's really great, though with the pencil marks it's a bit easy. I hope you continue to work on it, i think it's already the best Sudoku program for the 83+. Nice work yet again! Ah, and yeah, i've only got your Axe games, i didn't know you had BASIC stuff, too.

Quote from: JWinslow23 on November 30, 2014, 01:43:02 am

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on November 30, 2014, 01:39:23 am

Aah ok. I was worried you were done with Omni because you posted Vine projects and videos on Twitter every few hour each day, but no longer cross-posted them here, and at one point I thought you got fed up with Omni due to lack of Code Golf entries or something. I'm glad that isn't the case, though.

Don't worry, I never got fed up, just busy. The contests took up more time than I thought. If you were moderator, you'd understand (also, lack of projects and ideas for projects )

Once I get done with manual pencilmarks, I'll post an update ASAP.

Trust me I know. I was Omni forum moderator until 2011 and there was a 400 posts/day spike that lasted half a year

Well, then, I respect you.

I love the idea on how to edit the sudoku field ^.^

Thanks! Credit to Xeda Elnara for the keycode-to-number routine!

A couple thoughts and ideas:
-it would be really cool to have an undo button. I don't think it'd be too hard to do as you'd just need an array of the last few entries (like a miniature stack).
-it would also be nice to not have the pencil marks automatically update, ie. be able to type them in yourself. Maybe holding [2nd] or [Alpha] while pressing a number could update the pencil marks? With them updating automatically it can make it a bit too easy. So perhaps an option to turn that on/off?
-maybe adding a quicker way to jump between the 3x3 squares? (eg. [ + ]/[ - ] to cycle horizontally and [ x ]/[ ÷ ] to cycle vertically)
-it also might make sense to add [Del] as an alternative to [ 0 ] for erasing a number.

All in all i think it's really great, though with the pencil marks it's a bit easy. I hope you continue to work on it, i think it's already the best Sudoku program for the 83+. Nice work yet again! Ah, and yeah, i've only got your Axe games, i didn't know you had BASIC stuff, too.

No undo button, but I did do manual pencilmarks. I will update shortly. I might take your advice on the +, -, *, and / buttons, and I will DEFINITELY make Del another erase key.

Update shortly!

Bump.

Project update! Now added random puzzle generator that automatically creates a random puzzle upon startup. Occasionally, the puzzles may have more than one solution, and once I figure out a way to generate puzzles that does not have this flaw, I will update once again.

As usual, screenie:


Source (ASUDOKUX.8xp) and program file (SUDOKU.8xp) attached. As usual, put in your opinion about the program.

Good job on those additions.

Thanks. I'm working hard to make a Sudoku puzzle generator that doesn't give puzzles with more than one solution.

In other news, my project has been featured as one of Cemetech's November POTMs!