I like puzzles but it's fun seeing how others use logic.

Before watchin his Demon Crawl series I was NEVER able to understand Mine Sweeper. Now I've beaten that game on even the hardest difficulty, albeit with some lucky loot.

@@Nevir202 I miss Demon Crawl those streams were so good

@@masonengel1928 Never watched the streams, I prefer edited content, as I'm not really good at "watching in the background." so watching someone else play a videogame for 6 hours is significantly less interesting to me than playing a game myself. However, watching a tightly edited, 20-60 minute video that may represent 6 hours of gameplay? That's right up my alley lol.

I play completely different game genres to tyler but enjoy his content still, its calming 😂

Same here

Yeah

Agree

That's the reason I watched Tyler's Cosmic Express playlist

Agreed, feels nice having a break from solving the puzzle in my head faster than the creator

Are you shitting me? I 100% the game today... I read through the little launcher thing to make sure I wasn't missing any of the controls.

Months? How about ever

@@benjaminanderson1014 inscryption was pretty good though

@@BenjaminParker96 Oh absolutely, Inscryption is an awesome game. It takes a lot of inspiration from other card games though, so wouldn't call it as unique as this game. (not saying it's worse, just less unique)

In terms of creativity, I loved can of wormholes

I feel like every other comment is about the editing, and for good reason because *damn* his editors have been so good this past year

I scrolled down and saw this comment at exactly this moment. Wow.

also 11:23

Some notes I have while watching this video: - In the first puzzle, Tyler ends up stretching out a cylinder by a factor of 4, applying the waviness transformation to it, then reversing the stretching. This is an example a group theory concept called _conjugation;_ to be more specific, the waviness transform is being conjugated with the stretching transform to result in a new transformation that (to put it informally) "combines" the effects of both original transformations. - The square transformation (not the regular square one, the new square one) is homeomorphic to the circular one, but with the points on each radial line scaled by a factor of min(|sec θ|, |csc θ|). - Theoretically speaking, this entire game can be mathematically modeled as taking place within a space M x ℝ, where M is an arbitrary 2-manifold. Each of the tiles represents a coordinate chart on M, and the game involves applying the transition maps of these coordinate charts (with the third dimension not involving M being left unchanged). Combined with the rotations that the player can perform, this set of transformations forms a subgroup of the automorphism group on ℝ^3; the puzzle is then to find an element of this group that, given two subsets of ℝ^3, images one onto the other. - The target shape at 8:39 is called a helix. Or rather, to be more specific, it's a cylinder that is deformed into the shape of a helix.

​@@kianasheibani1708 something that I noticed is that a lot of the procedure is very similar to using calculus to find a solid of revolution - you can see the thought process at 4:45. it's interesting to see a game that subtly use those sorts of concepts.

@@FinnishArsonist Yes, many of the shapes constructed in this game are solids of revolution. That comes from the fact that moving from the regular square tile to the circular tile turns a straight line into a circle. If you take into account that the vertical dimension is unchanged, performing that transformation is equivalent to constructing a solid of revolution where the axis is vertical.

Very true (though there are no technical hyperboloids in this game, just surfaces with negative curvature with circular cross section, that is, the inner half of a torus)

I like your funny words magic man

Your profile picture shows that so we’ll tho 😂

I just wish he put his videos out a little earlier, so I'm not staying up so late. 😅

​@@Zaniahiononzenbeiit's literally 2:30AM rn and I'm like "alright, Tyler dropped, I NEED to watch this before sleeping"

​​@@AnAverageGamer18 don't think you need sleep after this

I think a huge help for me is experience with stuff in 3d modelling, like extrudes and revolutes and lofts. Maybe not.

It’s in the description: BenBenRanger

@@raymondarrington5339 I didn't say I didn't know. I was simply complimenting their editing work.

To be clear, a lot of the concepts from this game are indeed used to make real complex parts, as well as simulations for them to be tested. Of course it's a fair bit easier in reality, thankfully. Also I never ended up going into the field, but I do still have a fair bit of skill in FreeCAD.

It probably uses photographic processing to give it a percentage of how close the players' output is to the real thing

i imagine you could overlay slices of the shape you made and the target shape yeah then just check how well it overlays to get a % and boom there's your algorithm easier said than done obviously

I don't think you'd actually need to compare the shapes directly to tell if it's close enough. How I'd implement this is that I'd store the target shape as a list of transformations rather than the mesh for the shape itself. Then to do the comparison, the game would have to: 1. Simplify the list of steps that the player performed. For example, stretching a shape and then immediately shrinking it again with no intermediate transformation can be considered the same as doing nothing. 2. Compare this simplified list to the list for the target shape. Each individual step can have a tolerance for "good enough", which can be as simple as checking the distance between the target shape's position on the grid for that step to the player's shape's position is less than some value (say 0.1 units). 3. If all steps taken are the same, and each step is within the tolerance, the player passes the level. I don't know for sure, but I suspect the actual game does something like this, as it seems to know immediately if you've done it wrong, and only if it's successful is there a delay, which I assume is done for suspense.