I Disguised Roman Numerals as Gems in my Linguistic Puzzle Game!

[@dariamakesgames]

There is a mistake at 3:27 in the solution to the problem. I added the correct solution here: docs.google.com/document/d/1UTU4jBVUmOAv7yfbQOZI12bacpr9QCI4k8dfc491jL8/edit?usp=sharing Thank you to @tellaferum for catching it!

[@oz_jones]

This was on my front page of YT. Never having heard of your game all I can say that the art is stunning. Good luck! Also, subscribed. EDIT: Typo.

[@telaferrum]

FYI step 4 at around 3:30 appears to be wrong. Instead it should reverse step 1 to bring back IX, IV, XL, and XC. As is, those numbers will never show up as the sum. And the current step 4 also incorrectly undoes the work of step 3. As shown in the video, if we add III + II, after step 3 we get V, then step 4 incorrectly reverses it to IIIII. And as shown in the video, if we add V and IIII, after step 3 we get VIIII. Instead of correctly replacing it with IC, step 4 changes it to 9 Is.

[@dariamakesgames]

Thank you very much for spotting this! I indeed made a mistake in that slide. *Step 4* should be the reverse of the replacements in the *first step* not of the 3rd one. That's where we get "IIII->IV". For a case like I+III it will get converted to IV during that last step, and in case of III+II it gets converted to V in step 3. And if we add V + IV, IV gets converted too IIII and then VIIII gets converted to IX in that last step.

[@StellaByLuna]

This is awesome! Thank you for showing us your process

[@soulmalley]

this looks so cool!

[@paradox9551]

This is extremely fascinating! I love games that involve linguistics, and this looks like it's going to be very well made. I would recommend playtesting it with others however, just to make sure that it has the difficulty level you imagined it.

[@dariamakesgames]

Thank you so much! Completely agree with you! Playtesting is such an integral part of my game development process. The puzzles end up changing so much based on what players find easy or difficult or where they get stomped.

[@Doty6String]

Yea this is too diabolical for me to solve lol. But I’m fascinated by the process!

[@seluscan]

It looks better and better every time I see it !!

[@abel9537]

Music: 😇 Voice: 😻 Video: 🤩

[@Doty6String]

Great idea to swap the Roman numerals with the gem shapes!

[@Amelia_PC]

As a player, I'm already intimidated by this puzzle,. Nicely done!

[@dariamakesgames]

Thank you! My goal was to take an initially intimidating puzzle and through some changes and addition of introductory puzzles make it friendly to players with different puzzle solving skills

[@mikey6467]

I already know I'm going to be too dumb for this, but I'm still excited

[@dariamakesgames]

Haha, hopefully the game can give you the opposite feeling of being smart. I think it ended up looking complicated in the video because I'm showing mostly the last stage in the puzzle. But in the game the concepts are introduced more delicately through simpler puzzles

[@thepaladxn]

Super cool!

[@tillschlothauer5377]

I'd like to do the puzzle myself but feel like you did not give enough information on the problem. Would it be possible to add a link to the problem in the desription (or somewhere else)? Love the the game's idea and wish you luck in your development.

[@dariamakesgames]

Thank you for this great idea! Added the link to the description: docs.google.com/document/d/1A2il95jnFbAtmz05_PLvFoVxmV4KaI2n2Shu3Oz4GtE/edit?usp=sharing

[@dandymcgee]

Lovely!

[@guyvvbhvgdcvhyf-yl4ol]

So the solution is to put them in units of 1,10,100,1000, then add the units, 10s, hundreds, and then write out it's sum in roman numerals? I mean, might as well turn everything into I, and the just count it up to make back numbers. II + IV is II+IIII, which is IIIIII, and 6 in roman is VI. Not much of an algorithm. XD

[@telaferrum]

That is not what the algorithm does. Firstly, the units are 1s, 5s, 10s, 50s, and 100s. Roman numerals are not quite base so there's more to it then that. And, even though I is 1 and X is 10, IX is 9 instead of 11 so just adding things up as is doesn't work, so the first step is converting it to a form where you really can just add up all the individual letters to get the sum. "write out its sum" also isn't an algorithm, so the key is how to do that. Steps 2 and 3 are about doing everything in the right order, the equivalent of carrying the 1 when adding numbers in base 10 if 2 digits add up to 10 or more. Step 4 in the video is wrong, but is supposed to be about bringing back IV, IX, XL, XC which were removed in the first step. It's not the most complicated algorithm, but it's also more sophisticated than you give credit. Converting everything to just ones isn't necessarily easier, because you still need an algorithm to count up one by one in Roman numerals. Plus it's a way slower algorithm.

[@dariamakesgames]

Replacing everything with "I"s and then back would also work, but it would increase the length of each step. In the game right now it's not a possibility because there is a limit to both the amount of steps and the number of elements in each step.