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Cool Game Elements #1: Puzzle League’s Hint Arrow
5 november 2007
NL
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What you see in the above screenshot of 'Puzzle League DS' for Nintendo DS (which you hold sideways, like 'Brain Training') is simple.
The player just moved stuff around so that the three green blocks are going to pop and disappear. The game recognizes that, if the player quickly moves the purple block to the right, just after the green blocks go away, he'll form a line of purple blocks. Thus turning the player's single line into the start of a chain reaction. And so, it displays a hint arrow.
In other words, the game knows when the player can start a chain by moving a single block. This is an option that can be turned off, something pro players will probably do.
(During a YouTube search, I found that one )
