Topic, Game "BLockoban"

  they're pretty good :)

  Thanks to oldmanrob for a really cool Harry Potter series.

  (i think there will be a) levelflood incoming, yes another, again...

  great job omg. you're (one of) the best we have.

  I have just updated eight levels that had duplicate names. What I have done is place a space and the number one behind the duplicate levels. This is just to let any of you designers know why the name was changed.
Maze 1 (BLockoban)
Pyramid 1 (BLockoban)
Two Boxes 1 (BLockoban)
Four Corners 1 (BLockoban)
Big Bang 1 (BLockoban)
Blue Cruise 1 (BLockoban)
Crossroads 1 (BLockoban)
S.O.S 1 (BLockoban)

  I still agree with toughman's advice, you don't have to get the exact category for a level, we also have wrongly categorized levels.

  the difference between a hard medium level and a not that hard hard level isn't that big. so i think your chose is ok. there isn't any reason to change anything. don't bother about that and go on creating levels. thank you for the "levelflood". :)

  Sorry to everyone for my inability to know categories for this game. Although I may be good at puzzles, it is very challenging for me to decide what the difficulties are for most levels.

Therefore, the difficulty of some of my levels may be a bit off. If you have ideas as to what a level category could be for one of my levels, post it in the comments, it'll probably be the best category.

  i smell levelflood. eh ak?

  Congrats AK. Good luck with your next challenge!

  After 3 and a half years of battling this game, I have finally gotten in the top 50. This means I am now in the top 50 for every game! :DDD

Now, for the real challenge: Beat every official level...

  Wow, that's pretty much, congrats thecat! :)

  yes 5000 level,s solved

  I think it's possible to do OMR thing with code. But coding that would be a challenge though.

  Noted Simon. Thanks. I guess we should all be counting on OMR to keep updating the list. Out of curiosity again, isn't it possible to upload that list (that is to become an official BB feature or even a BL one) whereby only admins of let's say 'LvL 3' could edit them, one of them being OMR or whoever is chosen?
That way we will overcome the QuickSearch issue because we would all go to the list and search for whatever we want (name, category, etc) and find ALL the results instead of just 5 or 10, and b) we would see all the relevant info of each level. If, with the help of a software you can automatically link the highscore of each, then I think this could solve all my questions otherwise we can the highscore comparison aside (which is not so important).

  @ToughMan 1) This only works for levels you can edit, in your case this is the levels you made, for admin lvl 1 it's all the level except officials. And for admin lvl 2 it's all the levels.
2) I probably said that because I didn't knew it properly, now I know for sure, it's only accessable by jp.

  I am honoured OMR because, seriously, your work is priceless. I tried once to make a Global Tournament Pack (when the levels were like 2-3000) and I stopped. I can't really imagine how much time and what sort of effort you have put into it to make this happen and be useful. Thumbs up and a Gents Bow for you!!

@Simon. 1) Although I am in the admin list as a Trusted Member I don't believe I have the ability to see the category on the 'more' list. Anyway, my remarks were just food for thought, probably just towards JP, in order to improve the game's quality and service to members. As the number of levels increases significantly it would be worth taking some action now instead of later, mainly to avoid the big fuss. 2) If I am not mistaken Simon (probably am but for the sake of the conversation lets assume I aint)you were the one telling me - some time ago - at PuzzleIt that it would be quite difficult (almost impossible) to code this (apart from the 'time consuming' factor of course).

  btw. im adding the designers on my excel list. it will take some time to finish this. there is so many other stuff to do. solving all the new levels and some less important real life stuff too. anyway when im finished i will inform you and ask if you like to have the update.

  I think you can also do it as a lvl 1 admin, because lvl 1 admins can also edit levels, so they also should be able to make a quick edit in the more tab (change title/category).

  It's not hard to code such things, the problem is that Jp needs to find time to do it. Unfortunately other people can't do it, because they don't have the source code of the site. And for your 2 questions I'm afraid you can't. If you're admin lvl 2 you can check the category in the more page of the level though.

  You should also put this into the topic for suggestions for the site :)

  Thanks TIMU and OMR for answering and special thanks to OMR for preparing that list. I already have it and its extremely helpful but this is a mitigation to the problem. It doesn't really solve it, i mean within the community. It requires OMR or anyone else to keep updating the list (including any recent changes to older levels) and keep distributing to everyone which as you understand is, the least, painful and time consuming whereas an addition of the category to any level's info would just be sufficient. As for the 10 levels at the homepage search it really is better than 5 but again we may reach a point (if not yet there) when thousands of levels are created and 10 won't be enough.

Coming back to each level's info, I am just posting an older thought - extensively debated within the community (I believe with Elizea, Simon, OMG, Jyxz and others) - where the key info that should appear (when the mouse is on the level's little square)in every level would be the following:
1) Status of Level (Accepted, to be edited, rejected, etc)
2) Designer
3) Category
4) Rating
5) Current Highscore
6) Your Score (to compare each time with the current HS
7) and a new item called 'Not Yet Rated by You' which will help a lot of designers getting their levels rated
I remember it was extremely difficult to code all this information but is there any progress (probably a new software or something).

Regards.

  1) you can ask for my excel list. it was lot of work so im pleased if many people can take profit of it.

  1) It seems like that it's not possible to find category in a easier way, but look at the color of the C icon can help you identify its category.
Green: hard
Red: medium
Black: easy
Blue: kids
BTW, oldmanrob made a category list, you can get it by sending your e-mail to oldmanrob's inbox :)

2) The homepage's search can find 10 levels, but its result is by the game's publish date, form old to new, so it means it's easier to find more bb levels.

  Hi guys. I have two questions which may be naive and I apologize beforehand if there are obvious answers to them which I am not aware of.
1) Is there an easy way to identify a level's Category or do you need to find it in the 'Showing Level' window amongst over 6000 levels?. I would expect that when you type a certain level on the quick search section the level's info would state its category (I was not able to find the category for a specific level in order to respond to a question put by my friend OMG). Have I missed that?

2) Is there a way to extend the Quick Search section to allow for more than 5 findings? There are levels you want to re-play but not be able to find them (especially when you don't really recall the exact name but part of it) because they do not appear in the findings.

Thanks in advance guys.

  Same for me with Puzzle it^^

  you guys probably don't care. but if you change the category you give me a lot of work to do with the packs. please don't do it too often.

  I hope I still retain originality even with all those levels...

  there are people still overusing concepts but in a different way i think.

  This game is just amazing! There are over 6000 levels, and people still create original levels!