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Post by GooRoo on Aug 19, 2018 21:49:52 GMT -8
Thanks to PowerfulMind, there is a new overall Index to the Gruntz Level Editor Manual (GLEM) in which the links to the different letters now actually works! Click on an underlined T (anywhere!) and your display shifts to the first entry for that letter (for example). THat makes getting to the word topic you are interested in much faster.
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Post by GooRoo on Aug 20, 2018 18:05:44 GMT -8
Several indices have been updated in the past couple of months. The most frequent change is to remove the "Battlez" section (when it existed) and to move the individual BATTLE entries into its proper place, be it chronologically or alphabetically. They are identified by having the link name in red, and the word BATTLE replacing the columns for Walk-through and Coinz. The "How Hard" column is also eliminated from its entry, as human vs computer is adjustable from "Very Easy" toward "Frustrating" (when the puzzle is well designed). The threads for such may contain evaluations from the Gruntzerz who have succeeded in playing against one, two or even three humans on-line.
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Post by GooRoo on Aug 21, 2018 17:52:42 GMT -8
I have completed updating the "By Release Date" entries, and a few of the Designer entries. I am totally wiped out from squinting at the computer screen, and will resume updating tomorrow.
Edit: Done with the Individual Designers, and will be working on adding Collaborators beyond Nathan (where I stopped tonight). Probably have that finished late tomorrow (Friday, August 24, 2018).
Keep in mind that your browser may have something in its cache that is very old, and clicking on a link may display old stuff. I recommend that you use F5 (refresh) liberally when browsing through the indices.
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Post by GooRoo on Oct 27, 2018 7:33:49 GMT -8
Except for individual Designers, virtually every index has been updated, using NotePad++ to undo the problems bundled NotePad caused ... and my lack of understanding of the reasons why my preferred indentation structure was sometimes being destroyed.
As a reminder (to myself) I adjusted the puzzle names without game-time "View the map!" images to be aligned top, right instead of bottom, left. Some of these will never be updated, due to actions taking place even before the solver responds to the flashing "press any key...". To create images that show the design structure rather than what it looks like when the solver assumes control would require changing 'team' numbers in a temporary version so that there are no battles causing Giant Rocks to be broken, mounds dug up, enemy Gruntz reduced to Goo Puddles, etc.
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Post by GooRoo on Dec 30, 2019 16:07:28 GMT -8
Only the individual Designer indicez remain to be 'standardized' when Battlez Custom Levelz are involved. And I am not in the mood to do that at this time.
I would rather spend my time updating the GLEM Toolz that deal with ranged weapons. So I am off-line to my XP computer where I can do testing/designing.
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Post by GooRoo on Feb 5, 2020 10:41:02 GMT -8
Added a listing by Collaboraterz ... moved some from under Designerz to Collaborationz
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Post by GooRoo on Jun 13, 2022 19:23:24 GMT -8
Indices have been updated to reflect the 2022 entry released yesterday. I also updated every "by Release Date" index, adding a link to 2022 at the bottom. Tomorrow I will update the Download page for GooRoo's Gruntz - The Journey Home. Then I will begin to try to teach myself how to replace Tilez in the Grunt.REZ file. Once tested (on some of my own CLz) to prove that the new tiles operate correctly, I will make the version 1.11(?) of Gruntz.Rez available for download. Hopefully, the result will be that some graphics area maps will be more varied and (IMHO) more attractive ... by default (if the Designer used more than tiles 1 & 9 on their map).
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Post by GooRoo on Jun 28, 2022 7:01:30 GMT -8
It has been quite a project, identifying all of the broken links (and fixing them!) brought on by the realization that Paul's Gruntz Page was no longer available as a resource. I am nearing the end regarding the indices, diving into the "by Difficulty" indices.
Completed: Alphabetical; Graphics Area; Release Date; (most) Threads in this Forum; (most) Designers.
There are 31 indices (27 in Medium!) regarding difficulty left to do. NotePad++ has been a GREAT help in making the changes, simply via the "Find" applied to all open documents. I opened half (A through L) in one pass, corrected links, then closed them and opened the other half and fixed them. The 27 'Medium' indices will also be done in two groups. So three more sessions should finish eliminating broken links. (Some of the broken links required me to do some extra work to replace the "_w1.html" links with something to view.)
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Post by GooRoo on Jun 28, 2022 15:12:02 GMT -8
Boo!
While checking links of walkthroughs, I noticed a YouTube video link and clicked on it.
This video is no longer available (or some such message)
This just confirms my preference for supporting files to be hosted with whatever web host is current, and paid for (by me).
I try to have everything use relative addressing within the web host 'tree'. That is why I replicated my own structure, so that (if I kept everything currently maintained) I could fairly quickly migrate from one web host to another, as happened with the (externally caused!) change from Neron hosting to GoDaddy.
Now I have to go in search of YouTube videos, to correct (probable) broken links in those threads/indices. The solution is far more difficult, as there are fewer Designers who have made such videos that are still active in this Forum, so there is less likelihood that the video may be acquired from the source for proper web host storage.
If YOU are one of those Designers who have created video walkthroughs, please provide a current link to GooRoo, Zu or swietymiki to copy them to the Forum's web host.
Edit: GooRoo In the Difficulty indices (other than Medium) I have identified some YouTube video walkthroughs, and makred those still viable with and those that are broken with .
I plan to go back through the indices I (thought I had) completed to search for more YouTube video walkthroughs. It never rains (in southern California) but it pours! (Here)
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Post by GooRoo on Apr 3, 2023 7:51:40 GMT -8
I was just made aware that there was a broken link in the 'Easy' difficulty index for @zu's "Quick Gruntz Tutorial", and I found that there was the same error in his personal index as well as in the "Miniature Masterz" index. Thanks to qwertyasdf's post in Discord, they are now corrected. In most browsers you will need to do a refresh to see the (now) working link, as my browser (at least) caches many images.
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