proof: imgur.com/a/fe3mJIB (can't embed links :()

i really liked it! i love sudoku, so creating a complex twist on it was always gonna fascinate me. the layouts took maybe a minute or two to understand, but way longer to full grasp, which i think is good. it provides a nice difficulty, where it can be relatively easily picked up and a person can start to make progress, but if they want to do it quickly or elegantly, they need to put in the effort to figure out how it works. each of the puzzles was a lot of fun and took between 5 mins and maaybe an hour, with one restart max, which allowed for a more substantive game of sudoku than usual without having the beginning brick wall of more esoteric sudoku puzzles. if u wanted to make more puzzles using this method, i would love to play them! my biggest issue was not having the quality of life features that most modern sudoku engines have, like candidate numbers and crossing out options when they are fully used. given the context of how this was made, its understandable, but itd be more than welcome in a new release and i think itd allow it to be more approachable while letting u make harder puzzles.