{"author_link":"\/author\/raincole\/","author_name":"raincole","author_uid":"17708","comments":[{"author_name":"Suese","author_uid":"8361","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 7:01am","epoch":1355727360,"text":"Wouldn't load."},{"author_name":"raincole","author_uid":"17708","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 7:09am","epoch":1355727840,"text":"@Suese it works for me now... could you try again?"},{"author_name":"Felix20","author_uid":"6525","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 7:14am","epoch":1355728140,"text":"Really great game concept.\r<br\/>Only problem is the blue cursor is practically impossible to beat on lev 2 and 4.\r<br\/>sound is ok, graphics are good, theme fits very nicely.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>But how are supposed to get that blue minesweeper &gt;:o\r<br\/>Now I know what it feels like to be a villain &gt;:("},{"author_name":"raincole","author_uid":"17708","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 7:39am","epoch":1355729640,"text":"Sorry for the lack of tips. The way to kill the blue one is to &quot;make it clueless&quot;. In other words, force it to guess. It takes some luck but not as hard as it sounds. When a cursor guesses there will be a question mark beside it.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Since you have known what lev 4 is, I believe that you have practically beat lev 2. Good job, villain!"},{"author_name":"amassingham","author_uid":"1282","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 7:57am","epoch":1355730720,"text":"I originally read the title of the game as 'MineStreaker', That would have been an interesting variation - haha.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I quite like the concept! Dynamically shifting Minesweeper, neat."},{"author_name":"ddionisio","author_uid":"17724","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 7:58am","epoch":1355730780,"text":"The AI in this game plays Minesweeper better than I do!  I love the concept!"},{"author_name":"kroltan","author_uid":"10851","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 11:01am","epoch":1355741760,"text":"haaha awesome game!"},{"author_name":"recursor","author_uid":"1105","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 11:02am","epoch":1355741820,"text":"The blue cursor is hard. Neat concept."},{"author_name":"Grouflon","author_uid":"14480","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 11:15am","epoch":1355742600,"text":"great great great concept, you should make a multiplayer version !"},{"author_name":"Luis Anton","author_uid":"12053","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 1:43pm","epoch":1355751480,"text":"So original! I couldn't beat it, but I like the idea :D"},{"author_name":"LucaPavone","author_uid":"8645","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 1:45pm","epoch":1355751600,"text":"Brilliant idea. I don't play much minesweeper but its very engaging, even when you have no idea what you're doing!"},{"author_name":"har_g","author_uid":"18614","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 1:48pm","epoch":1355751780,"text":"very simple, but very awesome !! I liked it :)\r<br\/>and i like orange."},{"author_name":"Norgg","author_uid":"5283","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 2:34pm","epoch":1355754540,"text":"Argh! That last level is infuriating! Awesomely done."},{"author_name":"Norgg","author_uid":"5283","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 2:39pm","epoch":1355754840,"text":"Ohhhh, figured out a tactic for the last level and felt so evil. Beautiful."},{"author_name":"Norgg","author_uid":"5283","time":"Dec 17, 2012 @ 2:47pm","epoch":1355755320,"text":"Haha, and going back to it, the fact that you track the fastest time you've been defeated in gives it an awesome little moral choice edge too."},{"author_name":"kewry","author_uid":"12789","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 5:45am","epoch":1355809200,"text":"Was hard at start but managed to beat it!"},{"author_name":"Faust","author_uid":"18319","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 2:11pm","epoch":1355839560,"text":"Nice reverse play, It's really hard to set traps to the AI, but interesting."},{"author_name":"MaTX","author_uid":"8087","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 2:14pm","epoch":1355839740,"text":"Awesome idea, I love this sides switch.\r<br\/>Although at least after a first playthrough, the game is really hard, have you considered slowing it down a bit?"},{"author_name":"Edocentrique","author_uid":"18304","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 2:56pm","epoch":1355842260,"text":"Cool concept and realisation !"},{"author_name":"Husky","author_uid":"17464","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 3:10pm","epoch":1355843100,"text":"Wooho!!\r<br\/>So bad but I like it! :)\r<br\/>Great work!"},{"author_name":"Husky","author_uid":"17464","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 3:10pm","epoch":1355843100,"text":"I mean -Evil"},{"author_name":"caasi","author_uid":"17875","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 3:18pm","epoch":1355843580,"text":"Great idea ane implementation!\r<br\/>Not sure how to trick the AI, it's good."},{"author_name":"arch.jslin","author_uid":"18318","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 4:45pm","epoch":1355848800,"text":"This gave a very creepy thought: There must be some guy behind my computer sneaking the mines when I play minesweeper.... (*gasp*)"},{"author_name":"raincole","author_uid":"17708","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 5:19pm","epoch":1355850840,"text":"@everyonewhosaiditstoohard: You're right. I slowed the blue one down by half.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>@arch.jslin: It's exactly how I figured this concept out!"},{"author_name":"Kuulog","author_uid":"10301","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 6:21pm","epoch":1355854560,"text":"Very interesting Minesweeper reversal here. Quite hard, though."},{"author_name":"HeXoT","author_uid":"19448","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 8:39pm","epoch":1355862840,"text":"That AI... I hate it!"},{"author_name":"zenmumbler","author_uid":"17143","time":"Dec 18, 2012 @ 11:44pm","epoch":1355873940,"text":"I won the first round by accident by just clicking and I suck at minesweeper and I apparently suck harder at reverse minesweeper but this is brilliantly done. Really original! Now even more sure that AIs will kill us all in due time."},{"author_name":"Amos Wenger","author_uid":"4598","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 3:28am","epoch":1355887380,"text":"Overall very nice, not my type of game but it ran well, graphics are simple yet consistent, I could never get past the second level though :)"},{"author_name":"dekart","author_uid":"14826","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 9:56am","epoch":1355910660,"text":"Nice game!"},{"author_name":"Pitoum","author_uid":"7969","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 10:00am","epoch":1355910900,"text":"Very clever and fun to play! Remember all my time on this game :D SO THAT'S WHY I USED TO FAIL!"},{"author_name":"Digiraze","author_uid":"344","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 12:21pm","epoch":1355919360,"text":"Great game, very nice idea and very well executed.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>My trick to beating the blue, I picked up a mine and then I wait until I have 1 or two tile, so I know which tile the blue one is going to click on, and then I just spam my mouse left click on that tile, seems to confuse it, but you won't get a very good time for it though!  Because you have to wait until that 1 tile."},{"author_name":"Madball","author_uid":"8370","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 12:57pm","epoch":1355921520,"text":"I would prefer a slower pace. It's a very thinking game, so I would like to think, and not place mines randomly hoping to win. But it's a great idea."},{"author_name":"Datw","author_uid":"11318","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 1:28pm","epoch":1355923380,"text":"The game is really good and fun. But that AI man, it is just sick. Couldn't go past second level :\/. Good work anyway!"},{"author_name":"GFM","author_uid":"7375","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 3:09pm","epoch":1355929440,"text":"Until I understood how to make it clueless, I was just trying to put mines under the cursor. (it works on the first level xD)\r<br\/>But then there is a easy (and cheap) way of making it clueless... so it became quite easy. xD\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Neat concept!"},{"author_name":"fishbrain","author_uid":"3007","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 7:12pm","epoch":1355944020,"text":"Clever idea and good AI."},{"author_name":"Ariake81","author_uid":"19384","time":"Dec 19, 2012 @ 9:56pm","epoch":1355953860,"text":"great twist on an old classic. nice job!"},{"author_name":"Niavlys","author_uid":"8666","time":"Dec 20, 2012 @ 10:39am","epoch":1355999640,"text":"Great idea! Not so hard to beat. I wonder if there's a real strategy of if it's just about placing a mine down the cursor before it clicks. Well done!"},{"author_name":"bentog","author_uid":"17307","time":"Dec 22, 2012 @ 10:34pm","epoch":1356215340,"text":"Wow. I don't like minesweeper at all, but I'm sure that people who like it would love this game. It's really cool!"},{"author_name":"Spelchan","author_uid":"15656","time":"Dec 23, 2012 @ 5:51am","epoch":1356241560,"text":"I wish I could have done this to a certain minesweeper player I know. Great concept."},{"author_name":"Dark Acre Jack","author_uid":"2947","time":"Dec 23, 2012 @ 6:01am","epoch":1356242160,"text":"That's incredible that you coded this AI in less than 48 hours. Stellar work.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>The game itself was a bit tedious, but I could see this being really fun as a head-to-head game."},{"author_name":"Pierrec","author_uid":"1874","time":"Dec 23, 2012 @ 9:38am","epoch":1356255180,"text":"I love it!\r<br\/>As a big minesweaper player, I had no difficulty to trick the cursor everytime, but I had a lot of fun anyway!"},{"author_name":"Gornova","author_uid":"2572","time":"Dec 23, 2012 @ 9:54am","epoch":1356256140,"text":"ahah! nice and very evil game :D"},{"author_name":"Xavier","author_uid":"15692","time":"Dec 23, 2012 @ 10:57am","epoch":1356259920,"text":"Excellent!"},{"author_name":"KWL_TW","author_uid":"18962","time":"Dec 23, 2012 @ 1:49pm","epoch":1356270240,"text":"Nice concept!"},{"author_name":"pereubu","author_uid":"16143","time":"Dec 23, 2012 @ 2:01pm","epoch":1356270960,"text":"Damn it's hard to play, but still the idea is great ( reminds me of Hatetris where one player chooses the tetraminoes the other has to put ). I'm a noob at minesweeper so i had a hard time trying to beat lvl 2, great job D:"},{"author_name":"CoffeeOnimal","author_uid":"1643","time":"Dec 23, 2012 @ 3:02pm","epoch":1356274620,"text":"Nice. Just nice."},{"author_name":"lekochen","author_uid":"12928","time":"Dec 24, 2012 @ 12:14am","epoch":1356307740,"text":"It is a very satisfying feeling to set up the traps for the mine sweeper. Very nice entry."},{"author_name":"mikemacdee","author_uid":"6769","time":"Dec 24, 2012 @ 9:52am","epoch":1356342420,"text":"level 2 is impossible due to what appears to be input reading."},{"author_name":"Sestren","author_uid":"10343","time":"Dec 28, 2012 @ 3:04am","epoch":1356663540,"text":"This is the best take on the &quot;play a well-known game from the bad guy's point of view&quot; theme that I've seen. Figuring out ways to force the cursors into guessing was a lot of fun. I'm sure there's a trivial solution, but I haven't found it yet, and the whole game was very well-executed."},{"author_name":"ilo","author_uid":"12377","time":"Dec 29, 2012 @ 9:26pm","epoch":1356816060,"text":"Like others, relatively quickly I discovered a dominant strategy that removed the challenge from each level, but it was still satisfying waiting for the AI to be snared by my trap, he he he. &gt;:)"},{"author_name":"Mago","author_uid":"5227","time":"Jan 4, 2013 @ 12:18pm","epoch":1357301580,"text":"great idea! now I know what computer do when I play minesweaper"}],"images":["ld25\/17708-aee00315b94b8261c5380d84eaa22479.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/raintomorrow.cc\/games\/mine-sneaker","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/raincole\/mine-sneaker\/raw\/gh-pages\/mine-sneaker.tar","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"27778","g_author":"17708","g_event":"LD25","g_eventkey":"14","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"27808","g_title":"Mine Sneaker","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"59","g_commentcount":"51","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/201083\/17708-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"On this minefield you are the vallian. Pick mines up, set traps down, and try to kill those Minesweepers!\r\n\r\nEdit: I moved the webpage from Github to my own domain, but the game was untouched.\r\n\r\nEdit: As others have mentioned, the blue one is too hard. I slowed it down significantly.\r\n\r\nEdit: Bug fixed: you can't play locked levels now.\r\n\r\n<\/p>","title":"Mine Sneaker"}