01 February 2011

Year of the Rabbit 2011




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Socoban: Biohazard Edition


Socoban: Biohazard Edition
Code: r0mk1n
Levels: kater1nka
Flash
2011

Yesterday I started to solve the puzzles from "Socoban: Biohazard Edition", and .. WOW! There are very good puzzles!

Find good puzzles is not frecuent in Sokoban online programs. I looked at the "Credits" who is the author of the puzzles: "Levels: kater1nka", he says.

I continued playing, impressed by the quality of the puzzles. But ... surprise! :O ...  Why is here a puzzle of Sven Egevad?

What happens is that, in fact, the puzzles in the collection are of very different authors. I took hours to identify the authors of the 100 puzzles. They are (thanks to Jürgen Müller-Lütken from Onlinespiele-Sammlung):

1. Jordi Domenech. Pufiban #26
2. Serg Belyaev. #290
3. Thomas Reinke. YASGood #23
4. Jordi Domenech. Pufiban #76
5. M. Hof. Revenge Collection 10 #64
6. Eric F. Tchong. Atlas 1 #1 Atlas starts easy
7. Marti Homs. Maps after all #97
8. Eric F. Tchong. Serena 6 #3 Triplets
9. Buddy Casamis. Bugs 3 #79 (85)
10. Sven Egevad. #1022
11. Howard Abed. First Set #92
12. Eric F. Tchong. Atlas 2 #73 Wall of fear
13. Jordi Domenech. Pufiban #156
14.
Buddy Casamis. Bugs 2 #59 (59)
15. Jacques Duthen. Sokogen #68
16. David W. Skinner. Microban III #61
17. Sven Egevad. #725
18. David W. Skinner. Microban #107
19. David W. Skinner. Microban II #70
20. Thomas Reinke. Albizia #15
21. Sven Egevad. #788
22. Yoshio Murase. Autogenerated #43
23. Serg Belyaev. #226
24. Thomas Reinke. Calx  #9
25. François Marques. Sokoban online #86 O -> B
26.
Buddy Casamis. Bugs1005 #543 (550)
27. Eric F. Tchong. Atlas 10 #66 Frikandel
28. M. Hof. Revenge Collection 5  #30
29. Shaggath. V2009 #70
30. Shaggath. Mullholland D #6
31. M. Hof. Revenge Collection 1  #12
32.
Buddy Casamis. More Bugs #92 (93)
33. Frantisek Pokorny. #95 1,2,3
34. Sven Egevad. #677
35. Thinking Rabbit. IQ Carrier #15
36. Serg Belyaev. #39
37. David W. Skinner. Microban #65
38. David W. Skinner. Microban II #76
39. Sven Egevad. #925
40. Marti Homs. Maps after all #58
41. Ghislain Martin. Monde #208 Decontraction
42. Serg Belyaev. #450
43. Sven Egevad. #728
44. Eric F. Tchong + Jordi Domenech. The beautiful World of Remodels 1 #4
45. Sven Egevad. #667
46. Thinking Rabbit. Sokoban Perfect #227
47. David W. Skinner. Sasquatch VII #18
48. M. Hof. Revenge Collection 3  #74
49. Serg Belyaev. #339
50. Thinking Rabbit. Sokoban Revenge #86
51. Eric F. Tchong. Aruba 3 #14 Really funny
52. François Marques. Kokoban #17
53. Eric F. Tchong. Cosmac 2 #26 Move wisely
54. Edwin Abbot. Flatland #14
55. Evgeny Grigoriev. Grigr Sun #3 Query Mark
56. Sven Egevad. #463
57. Razorflame. Attrition 2 #12
58. Ghislain Martin. Monde #32 La barriere de corail
59. Eric F. Tchong. Atlas 8 #43 Kissing squares
60.
Buddy Casamis. Bugs #5 (5)
61. Eric F. Tchong. Cosmac 2 #95 Tammy's heart
62. Sven Egevad. #1184
63. ?

64. W. Ross Brown. For the kids #10 (KSokoban room #237)
65. M. Hof. Revenge Collection 7 #6
66. Eric F. Tchong. Cosmac 10 #28 Miwed peanuts
67.
Buddy Casamis. Bugs 3 #18 (18)
68. Buddy Casamis. Bugs1005 #250 (250)
69. Evgeny Grigoriev. Grigr2001 #54 Tiskoteka
70. Yoshio Murase. Handmade #34
71. Eric F. Tchong. Atlas 6 #3 Swing along
72. Rick Sladkey + Jordi Domenech. The beautiful World of Remodels 1 #12
73. Eric F. Tchong. Atlas 10 #92 Fill up
74. Eric F. Tchong. Atlas 9 #94 Epsilon
75. Eric F. Tchong. Atlas 1 #75 Veni amor mi 2
76. ?
77. Eric F. Tchong. Atlas 9 #95 Back and front
78. Thomas Reinke. Quagmire #28
79. Yoshio Murase. Handmade #33
80. Eric F. Tchong. Serena 3 #17 Quiraima
81. Eric F. Tchong. Atlas 7 #71 Mess up
82. Stanislav Kanev. Barona #6
83. Sven Egevad. #1242
84.
Buddy Casamis. Bugs509 #235 (243)
85. David Holland. dh5 #8
86. Sven Egevad. #602
87. Alberto Garcia. Puzzle #71
88. David W. Skinner. Sasquatch #4
89. Jordi Domenech. Small chessboards #11
90. Erim Sever. erim167
91. Sven Egevad. #35
92. Sven Egevad. #287
93. David W. Skinner. Sasquatch IV #16
94. Sven Egevad. #964
95. Eric F. Tchong. Aruba 8 #14 Big Z
96. Eric F. Tchong. Atlas 3 #50 Heart to heart
97.
Buddy Casamis. Bugs 2 #8 (8)
98. Sven Egevad. #1265
99. Eric F. Tchong. Atlas 8 #15 Turtle doves
100.
Buddy Casamis. Bugs509 #153 (157)

Why in these programs almost never are mentioned the authors of the puzzles? How hard is it?  :(

Otherwise, the design is good, but the handling of the player is very hard. Another inconvenience: the big puzzles are only partially displayed (the map moves up and down with the movement of the player): it is almost impossible to solve a puzzle if it does not display the entire map.

Something good: mix puzzles of many different authors is a good idea, I not seen since old times of Thinking Rabbit collections: this gives a large variety to the collection, and is more interesting and entertaining.

This is the only good idea of this program.