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This is a demo that uses Ren'py Cardgame to make a jigsaw puzzle. (http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/Cardgame)

Screen Shots:

This is what the puzzle looks like when you are playing it:


You can drag pieces to have them switch places:


Or click on pieces to have them rotate.


Theory

In Cardgame, you have stacks and cards. Cards are the things you can move around. Stacks are places where you can put cards.

Basically, I made a grid of 12 stacks (4x3) that each contain one card.

Practical

You get your image and slice it into squares. It is important that the pieces are square because you are going to be rotating them.

I used and 800x600 image and cut the pieces into 200x200 px squares using a combination of Gimp, Gimp plugin New Guides Every X Pixels: http://registry.gimp.org/node/13774, and Image>Transform>Guillotine (http://gimp4you.wordpress.com/2008/05/1 ... ce-images/)

The files are named "room-i-j.jpg" where i and j refer to the column and row of the image. (Yeah -- I just realized I got it backwards)

If you want to have a different number of pieces, you just need to play with this section of code:



Possible Improvements
- make the code more generic so you can have different puzzles in the same game
- add sound effects

This code is delivered as is. I will answer questions about it, but I will not write your game for you.

Susan

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Aw, this is neat! Thank you Susan!

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I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left,
and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.'”
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Once again I am leveraging the excellent code of KimiYoriBaka's Drag and Drop Jigsaw Tutorial (viewtopic.php?f=8&t=12504) and created my own version.



It creates the puzzle pieces using Crop and AlphaMask (http://renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/referen ... .AlphaMask) I created 24 (6x4) puzzle pieces and use them as a template.

One thing I did differently is that the puzzle is one long interaction, which means you can't save midway through the puzzle. I haven't decided if I want it to be able to save.

Sorry about the annoying noise.

Susan

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Oh, wow... This is awesome! I've been trying to implement something like this in one of my VNs for a long time now, but I've given up. And now that I've seen something like this, I can try again. Thanks for this! ^__^

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My avatar is chibi Alex in disguise, not chibi Zander. >_>

This is very cool! Thanks!

Hope SusanTheCat doesn’t mind, but I created anti-aliased versions of the jigsaw pieces.
I also did a bevel effect layer to put over the jigsaw image so the pieces appear to have volume.
Of course, you’d better use a clean version for the win image.

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Those look freakin' awesome! Thank you.

*\o/*

Susan

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