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A bat approached me with two Green hearts
I lined up three greens both horizontally and vertically in a rotated L.
X X X
O O X
O O X where X = GREEN
Why does this not award the kill?
Interesting case feedback.
It is an unintuitive interaction, you're right.
That is the type of nonsense only possible in OOP
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The simple answer would be saying that you need a total of 6 matched tiles to count as two hearts (3+3) and you only matched 5.
But worry not, your feedback will be taken into consideration at our next design meeting.
Then the horizontal should dissapear first, leaving the vertical intact as only 2 remains
Now you're going a bit insane.
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I assume you scan horizontally first.
If you detect 3 and count it as a score, then remove all of these 3 from scoring the next scan cycle AND these are in turn NOT removed before that cycle, I am effectively losing a turn. Punished for scoring.
How would you then handle the case where the enemy requires a match of 4 Green and you do the L shaped 5-match? If you count it as a 3 only then it's clearly wrong.
I would count it as 6 because my game (and bejeweled 2, candy crush saga) count horizontal and vertical matches, not Snake matches.
This is not how it currently works, the match is detected fully (horizontal and vertical) as a 5match with double direction. You can see the match results in the "Log" under the battle screen.
To be clear; the engine is quite robust and these things are simply a matter of design choice, not a result of the match detection algorithm.
Your genre of game traditionally counts MATCHES.
Consider the following:
X X X
O O X
O O X this is the first match
X X X
O O X
O O X this is the second
In terms of matched gems:
3 + 3 = 6
In terms of matches:
1 + 1 = 2
In terms of combos
0 + 1 = 1
How many matches is X X X X
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That's not fair to the 4, 5 is only 1 higher than him but always counts as double.
X X X X X would count as two matches.
I wouldn't want the gems to get upset.
Your genre of game does not typically match by 3, rather it matches by conjoined horizontal or vertical sections