That was a fun little game, thank you! I love puzzles!
A few suggestions that may or may not make sense :)
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I’m not sure about others, but I love assembling puzzle without knowing what’s in the picture (tiny preview doesn’t hurt that). A special gamemode (option to remove the hint) for such geeks might be welcome.
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Option (for players like me) to have (significantly, like 4x-8x) more puzzle pieces would be welcome. It’s way too easy now, no feel of achievement. Of course that’d work only for more varied images, would be too boring otherwise.
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During the start, the pieces are scattered all around the table. It takes around a minute to (almost mindlessly) clean up an area to start working. Many times lost “that last piece” under the already-made image.
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With the hint in-place it’s not always clear which part of the puzzle is actually missing, especially in dark regions. Maybe not darkening it, but de-saturate (grayscale?) and reduce the contrast instead? Add blur? Negative? (Personally I’d rather have an additional option to remove it completely)
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The pieces “flicker” when the mouse is over them + plays some sound effect. Especially for large assembled regions (like the whole image) it’s fun at first, but quickly becomes annoying.
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Music is way to repetitive and quickly becomes annoying. Maybe a good idea (for future projects) will be to pick a longer soundtrack? As last puzzles took me around 5 minutes to assemble, that should be the “lower estimate” for the total music duration (one track or a playlist).