Mine Sneaker

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.68
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.33
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.30
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.03
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.93
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.43
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.87
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.81
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★100%
On this minefield you are the vallian. Pick mines up, set traps down, and try to kill those Minesweepers!

Edit: I moved the webpage from Github to my own domain, but the game was untouched.

Edit: As others have mentioned, the blue one is too hard. I slowed it down significantly.

Edit: Bug fixed: you can't play locked levels now.

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Comments51

Suese
Suese17 Dec 2012, 07:01
Wouldn't load.
raincoleauthor17 Dec 2012, 07:09
@Suese it works for me now... could you try again?
Felix20
Felix2017 Dec 2012, 07:14
Really great game concept.
Only problem is the blue cursor is practically impossible to beat on lev 2 and 4.
sound is ok, graphics are good, theme fits very nicely.

But how are supposed to get that blue minesweeper >:o
Now I know what it feels like to be a villain >:(
raincoleauthor17 Dec 2012, 07:39
Sorry for the lack of tips. The way to kill the blue one is to "make it clueless". In other words, force it to guess. It takes some luck but not as hard as it sounds. When a cursor guesses there will be a question mark beside it.

Since you have known what lev 4 is, I believe that you have practically beat lev 2. Good job, villain!
amassingham17 Dec 2012, 07:57
I originally read the title of the game as 'MineStreaker', That would have been an interesting variation - haha.

I quite like the concept! Dynamically shifting Minesweeper, neat.
ddionisio
ddionisio17 Dec 2012, 07:58
The AI in this game plays Minesweeper better than I do! I love the concept!
kroltan
kroltan17 Dec 2012, 11:01
haaha awesome game!
recursor
recursor17 Dec 2012, 11:02
The blue cursor is hard. Neat concept.
Grouflon17 Dec 2012, 11:15
great great great concept, you should make a multiplayer version !
Luis Anton
Luis Anton17 Dec 2012, 13:43
So original! I couldn't beat it, but I like the idea :D
LucaPavone17 Dec 2012, 13:45
Brilliant idea. I don't play much minesweeper but its very engaging, even when you have no idea what you're doing!
har_g17 Dec 2012, 13:48
very simple, but very awesome !! I liked it :)
and i like orange.
Norgg
Norgg17 Dec 2012, 14:34
Argh! That last level is infuriating! Awesomely done.
Norgg
Norgg17 Dec 2012, 14:39
Ohhhh, figured out a tactic for the last level and felt so evil. Beautiful.
Norgg
Norgg17 Dec 2012, 14:47
Haha, and going back to it, the fact that you track the fastest time you've been defeated in gives it an awesome little moral choice edge too.
kewry18 Dec 2012, 05:45
Was hard at start but managed to beat it!
Faust18 Dec 2012, 14:11
Nice reverse play, It's really hard to set traps to the AI, but interesting.
MaTX
MaTX18 Dec 2012, 14:14
Awesome idea, I love this sides switch.
Although at least after a first playthrough, the game is really hard, have you considered slowing it down a bit?
Edocentrique
Edocentrique18 Dec 2012, 14:56
Cool concept and realisation !
Husky
Husky18 Dec 2012, 15:10
I mean -Evil
Husky
Husky18 Dec 2012, 15:10
Wooho!!
So bad but I like it! :)
Great work!
caasi18 Dec 2012, 15:18
Great idea ane implementation!
Not sure how to trick the AI, it's good.
arch.jslin
arch.jslin18 Dec 2012, 16:45
This gave a very creepy thought: There must be some guy behind my computer sneaking the mines when I play minesweeper.... (*gasp*)
raincoleauthor18 Dec 2012, 17:19
@everyonewhosaiditstoohard: You're right. I slowed the blue one down by half.

@arch.jslin: It's exactly how I figured this concept out!
Kuulog
Kuulog18 Dec 2012, 18:21
Very interesting Minesweeper reversal here. Quite hard, though.
HeXoT18 Dec 2012, 20:39
That AI... I hate it!
zenmumbler
zenmumbler18 Dec 2012, 23:44
I won the first round by accident by just clicking and I suck at minesweeper and I apparently suck harder at reverse minesweeper but this is brilliantly done. Really original! Now even more sure that AIs will kill us all in due time.
Amos Wenger
Amos Wenger19 Dec 2012, 03:28
Overall very nice, not my type of game but it ran well, graphics are simple yet consistent, I could never get past the second level though :)
dekart19 Dec 2012, 09:56
Nice game!
Pitoum
Pitoum19 Dec 2012, 10:00
Very clever and fun to play! Remember all my time on this game :D SO THAT'S WHY I USED TO FAIL!
Digiraze19 Dec 2012, 12:21
Great game, very nice idea and very well executed.

My trick to beating the blue, I picked up a mine and then I wait until I have 1 or two tile, so I know which tile the blue one is going to click on, and then I just spam my mouse left click on that tile, seems to confuse it, but you won't get a very good time for it though! Because you have to wait until that 1 tile.
Madball19 Dec 2012, 12:57
I would prefer a slower pace. It's a very thinking game, so I would like to think, and not place mines randomly hoping to win. But it's a great idea.
Datw19 Dec 2012, 13:28
The game is really good and fun. But that AI man, it is just sick. Couldn't go past second level :/. Good work anyway!
GFM
GFM19 Dec 2012, 15:09
Until I understood how to make it clueless, I was just trying to put mines under the cursor. (it works on the first level xD)
But then there is a easy (and cheap) way of making it clueless... so it became quite easy. xD

Neat concept!
fishbrain
fishbrain19 Dec 2012, 19:12
Clever idea and good AI.
Ariake8119 Dec 2012, 21:56
great twist on an old classic. nice job!
Niavlys20 Dec 2012, 10:39
Great idea! Not so hard to beat. I wonder if there's a real strategy of if it's just about placing a mine down the cursor before it clicks. Well done!
bentog22 Dec 2012, 22:34
Wow. I don't like minesweeper at all, but I'm sure that people who like it would love this game. It's really cool!
Spelchan23 Dec 2012, 05:51
I wish I could have done this to a certain minesweeper player I know. Great concept.
Dark Acre Jack23 Dec 2012, 06:01
That's incredible that you coded this AI in less than 48 hours. Stellar work.

The game itself was a bit tedious, but I could see this being really fun as a head-to-head game.
Pierrec23 Dec 2012, 09:38
I love it!
As a big minesweaper player, I had no difficulty to trick the cursor everytime, but I had a lot of fun anyway!
Gornova
Gornova23 Dec 2012, 09:54
ahah! nice and very evil game :D
Xavier23 Dec 2012, 10:57
Excellent!
KWL_TW23 Dec 2012, 13:49
Nice concept!
pereubu23 Dec 2012, 14:01
Damn it's hard to play, but still the idea is great ( reminds me of Hatetris where one player chooses the tetraminoes the other has to put ). I'm a noob at minesweeper so i had a hard time trying to beat lvl 2, great job D:
lekochen
lekochen24 Dec 2012, 00:14
It is a very satisfying feeling to set up the traps for the mine sweeper. Very nice entry.
mikemacdee
mikemacdee24 Dec 2012, 09:52
level 2 is impossible due to what appears to be input reading.
Sestren28 Dec 2012, 03:04
This is the best take on the "play a well-known game from the bad guy's point of view" theme that I've seen. Figuring out ways to force the cursors into guessing was a lot of fun. I'm sure there's a trivial solution, but I haven't found it yet, and the whole game was very well-executed.
ilo29 Dec 2012, 21:26
Like others, relatively quickly I discovered a dominant strategy that removed the challenge from each level, but it was still satisfying waiting for the AI to be snared by my trap, he he he. >:)
Mago4 Jan 2013, 12:18
great idea! now I know what computer do when I play minesweaper

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