Sketch, Share, Solve by RDK

Sketch, Share, Solve is a fully-featured nonogram puzzle game for the Playdate. Play on your own or create puzzles and share them with your friends.

Features #

• Sketch: create your own puzzles
• Share: export your puzzles for others to play
• Solve: play 250 included puzzles and more shared by others
• Multiple player profiles on one device
• Tutorials for both Sketch and Solve modes
• Configurable hints for completed blocks or lines
• Autocomplete to skip the boring parts
• Undo for when you go too fast
• Timer to see how long you took
• More options to change how the game looks

How to export puzzles #

1. In the game use the Export puzzles option in your profile to create the puzzle collection file. The game will show the name of the file, e.g. player.json.
2. Connect the Playdate to your computer. See the sideloading documentation for details.
3. In the PLAYDATE volume under Data you’ll find a directory that is called either net.monometric.sketch-share-solve or user.1234.net.monometric.sketch-share-solve (with 1234 being your user ID) depending on how you sideloaded or installed the game.
4. In the net.monometric.sketch-share-solve folder you’ll find another folder called export containing your exported puzzle collection. Copy this file to your computer.
5. Make sure to eject the Playdate before disconnecting.

How to import puzzles #

1. Download the file to your computer. It should look something like player.json.
2. Connect the Playdate to your computer. See the sideloading documentation for details.
3. In the PLAYDATE volume under Data you’ll find a directory that is called either net.monometric.sketch-share-solve or user.1234.net.monometric.sketch-share-solve (with 1234 being your user ID) depending on how you sideloaded or installed the game.
4. In the net.monometric.sketch-share-solve you’ll find another folder called import where you can copy the puzzle collection file you downloaded.
5. Make sure to eject the Playdate before disconnecting.
6. After restarting the Playdate the new puzzle collection will be available in the game.

How to play #

The downloadable pdx can be sideloaded to your Playdate or played in the simulator that comes with the Playdate SDK. The full source code in Lua is available on github.

Links #

• Sketch, Share, Solve  is on sale on Catalog until March 14.
• The soundtrack is available on soundcloud.
• You can verify your created puzzles in the online solver.