The Cerebral Puzzle Showcase officially starts today, and Tametsi is participating! This event is organized by Draknek & Friends, the developers of well-known games like Cosmic Express and A Monster's Expedition.
The Cerebral Puzzle Showcase (cerebralpuzzleshowcase.com) is back this year from August 3 - August 7. Organized by Draknek & Friends, the Showcase includes many beloved puzzle games as well as titles you may not be familiar with.
We are very happy to be included, and encourage you to check out the other games and developers participating in the event!
Cerebral Puzzle Showcase
Developer Draknek & Friends (creators of A Monster's Expedition and Bonfire Peaks) has organized an event called the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase from May 19 - May 23. A lot of great puzzle games are included in the event, and I am very happy that Tametsi has been invited to participate!
Many games that I have recommended in the forums and to my friends are included, and I will also be using this event to check out some newer titles that I'm unfamiliar with. Tametsi is in great company here, and I hope that this will help highlight some games from other small developers.
Tametsi Beta branch
There is a new beta branch available. It is identical to the main branch, except that it prefers to use an existing Java installation instead of the OpenJDK that is bundled with Tametsi.
This is a potential fix for a few users who have reported a crash upon launch. There is no reason to use this branch if you aren't experiencing this specific issue.
Players who opt in to this branch will see the version number appear as "1.79b". For anyone trying this out, please share feedback!
Version 1.79 - Quieter win/loss sounds
Version 1.79 - Quieter win/loss sounds
The "revealed mine" sound is now several decibels quieter, and the "win" sound is lowered a bit as well.
Version 1.78 - Wider eraser
Version 1.78 - Wider eraser
The eraser was previously 25% larger than the pen. This was okay for drawing and erasing wide lines, but didn't really help for thinner ones, and it was probably too conservative.
The new eraser is 25% larger + 12 pixels in diameter. This should make it easier to spot-erase work, while hopefully not causing problems for anyone.
Version 1.77 - Removed black tiles
Version 1.77 - Removed black tiles
Some players reported minor issues with the black tiles in puzzles 52 and 75; specifically, the total mine count for black tiles was not black, but dark grey.
To avoid any future confusion, I have replaced the black tiles with other colors in those puzzles. The puzzles themselves are unchanged.
Hello new players!
Thanks to a very kind and very unexpected review from John Walker over at Rock, Paper, Shotgun, there have been a lot of new players coming in over the last few days.
A PSA to anyone new to Tametsi: the options in the launcher are there to help you out, and none of them make the game significantly easier. I play with most of them turned on these days, and they default to off for legacy reasons -- after you get used to certain numbers counting down or not counting down, it's a bit of work to change.
Also, if you have any questions, I still check the forums regularly. I don't plan to add any more features to the game, but I will definitely (try to) fix bugs, and I will try to help if you encounter an accessibility issue.
Finally, some of the bonus puzzles (on the right) are much harder than the main puzzles on the left. In my opinion, if you finish the main 100 puzzles, you win -- the others are there if you get bored one day or feel like a challenge.
Have fun!
Version 1.76 - Minor bug fix
Version 1.76 - Minor bug fix
This update fixes an unreported bug: toggling fullscreen with alt+enter was sometimes incorrectly resizing text inside tiles. This is barely enough to justify an update, but it's a mistake that I wanted to fix.
Happy holidays!
Version 1.75 - Cleanup
Version 1.75 - Cleanup
This is just a small refactoring update. The only change that will be visible to some players is that error logging for achievement-related issues is now off by default.
I have not received any recent reports about earned achievements not being awarded; if this happens, please reach out to me via the discussion board or email.