Michael Fogleman

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@thinkingshivers hell yes

yellow-crowned night heron

Photography is my passion

hmm, can’t reproduce now

@thinkingshivers seeing a lot of cases on today's puzzle where hovering over the horse doesn't show how he can escape

@thinkingshivers I wish the "Past Puzzles" was an actual page like the Browse page, with thumbnails.

All of the comments were really nice, but the top one said I need better wall sprites, so that's an option now! At this point, I'm not actually sure what features (if any?) still need to be implemented. Might just focus on refactoring the code and polishing things.

>front page of hacker news

@Nil053 @thinkingshivers Game Variant idea based on the above: make the user place the horse too, not just the walls.

@Nil053 @thinkingshivers Here's another type of analysis that may be useful when creating levels. For every valid horse position, what is the max score possible? Example using the Jan 1 puzzle:

Added a solver! Now in edit mode, you can see the optimal solution before publishing*

@thinkingshivers This is awesome! It reminds me of Rodent's Revenge from my childhood, except this is much better. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodent%27… Now I may have been nerd sniped into trying to auto-generate (good) puzzles...

I made a simple puzzle game! Try to enclose the horse in the largest possible area with limited walls.

@AchillePomeroy Yeah it’s certainly not perfect! He’ll probably just use best of 3

@FogleBird confounding factor: I tapped on a touch screen and accidentally scrolled, so had a slow outlier

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

@WebbyJamesHere @rikardorichards Yeah, you don't wanna mess with those feet (same owl as in the video, different day)

@rikardorichards @FogleBird I noticed the size of the feet 👀

Great Horned Owl

American Mink (Huntington Beach State Park, July 2023)

Great Horned Owl

👑 Golden-crowned Kinglet 👑

Is it a Blackpoll Warbler? I think it’s a Blackpoll Warbler. Anyway, I took its picture.

@evornithology I love the green tinges!

@FogleBird A hatch-year male as well! Green tinges, pointy juvenile tail...

male vs. female: black-throated blue warbler