Yeah, I’m back on Shapeshifter again, that amazingly difficult puzzle game on Neopets….
Yeah, I’m back on Shapeshifter again, that amazingly difficult puzzle game on Neopets.
I’ve been thinking about getting back in that race again. I burned out on the puzzle back in September, but I have been getting encouraging notes from people urging me not to give up. There’s a strange community of solvers out there. People get up to about 25 on their own, then get stumped and either give up or try to write a solver.
Anyway, I somehow acquired a mentor who is going to give me encouragement and algorithmic help on my road to level 100. I’ve just done levels 80 and 81 without any significant code changes, though I did download the Python-C compiler onto my dual core machine so I could pump up the performance of my current, Python-based solver.
Now I want to translate it all into Java and multithread it, see what happens there…
It’s still a long distance to 100.
