Jon Thysell released 1.0 of the MacLO yesterday.

MacLO is a clone of the puzzle game Lights Out for the 68k Macintosh. It is a port of ArduLO for the Arduboy. MacLO is B&W and has been tested on System 6.0.8 and System 7.5.5. Click to expand...

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GitHub - jonthysell/MacLO: A clone of the puzzle game Lights Out for the 68k Macintosh.

A clone of the puzzle game Lights Out for the 68k Macintosh. - jonthysell/MacLO

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Avalbile as a .sit or .dsk so you can easily use it on an emulator or a real vintage mac.

Crickets over here too - you'd think there would be more interest in a new Mac game!

I'm interested!
Just in the middle of a project right now. I am also getting into 68K game development. Mostly in HyperCard but plan to migrate to C sometime soon.

I'm terrible at games, but I still love this game!

I think it's amazing that Jon made the source available. I feel like, even if there isn't an immediate reaction, this sort of material has a lot of value for years to come!

Source too - that's cool. And it's the MIT license which is even better!
I have the source to Flappy Mac. I'll have to check this out too.

MacLO has been updated to v1.1!

From the author:

Hi everyone, I've released an update to MacLO, my clone of the game Lights Out. Besides some minor optimizations and bug fixes, the main new features are saving your progress and providing a level select screen so you can retry puzzles you've already completed. Complete source and binary downloads are provided on GitHub and Macintosh Garden. Website: https://github.com/jonthysell/MacLO/ Macintosh Garden: https://macintoshgarden.org/games/maclo Please enjoy, /jon Click to expand...

Nice!

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I tried my hand at solving the first stage of the B side of levels. You use an augmented matrix that puts 0 everywhere, except in the spots where a cell influences nearby cells. Also, the solution vector has 1's everywhere a square is initially lit up.
Here's the exposed method: https://www.xarg.org/2018/07/lightsout-solution-using-linear-algebra/

Here's a more direct solver for those who HATE fun: https://www.dcode.fr/lights-out-solver

>> Mu0n said:

Here's a more direct solver for those who HATE fun: https://www.dcode.fr/lights-out-solver Click to expand...

I'm glad you mentioned this solver as I don't get how to use it. Here's one of the puzzles I'm having a hard time getting 3 stars on and I just wanna see what the best first move is. I assume you put in the 1's for lights on and 0's for the lights off? But when I click solve I just get the same original puzzle...

>> Byte Knight said:

I'm glad you mentioned this solver as I don't get how to use it. Here's one of the puzzles I'm having a hard time getting 3 stars on and I just wanna see what the best first move is. I assume you put in the 1's for lights on and 0's for the lights off? But when I click solve I just get the same original puzzle... View attachment 2183 Click to expand...

That's because......it's the solution! Try it out. Click where the 1's are, once.

I confirmed it with this, which has an editor built-in: https://www.sfu.ca/~jtmulhol/math302/puzzles-lo.html

>> Mu0n said:

That's because......it's the solution! Try it out. Click where the 1's are, once. I confirmed it with this, which has an editor built-in: https://www.sfu.ca/~jtmulhol/math302/puzzles-lo.html Click to expand...

Ok, that's pretty wild...