{"author_link":"\/users\/marcmagus","author_name":"marcmagus","author_uid":"marcmagus","comments":[],"epoch":1682786593,"event":"LD53","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":362664,"likes":10,"metadata":{"p_key":"195545","p_author":"marcmagus","p_authorkey":"1133764","p_urlkey":"426178","p_title":"A Start!","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD53","p_time":"1682786593","p_likes":"10","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1133764","us_name":"marcmagus","us_username":"marcmagus","event_start":"1682726400","event_key":"118","event_name":"Ludum Dare 53"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD53","removed_author":false},"_superparent":332127,"_trust":1,"author":133764,"body":"I've been thinking it would be fun to play around with the new \"hat\" aperiodic monotile, and the theme seems like a great fit with a variant of the monotile shared by Carlos Luna-Mota on Mastodon with [pipes](https:\/\/mathstodon.xyz\/@carlos_lunamota\/110171345407668765).\n\nThis morning I imported the image from Carlos' 3d printing plans to Inkscape, played around with it a bit, and made a print sheet that's not *too* wasteful (they tile, but not very neatly to a rectangle).\n\n![PXL_20230429_161252055.jpg](\/\/\/raw\/48a\/02\/z\/57e3c.jpg)\n\nI printed and cut my first sheet and I'm now playing around with the pieces to see what I can come up with.\n\n![PXL_20230429_162432098.jpg](\/\/\/raw\/48a\/02\/z\/57e4a.jpg)\n\n(The dark blue on is \"flipped\", and I'm currently using a similar blue convention to the original paper for that. I'm not quite sure how this is going to become a game: whether the tiles will be identical or have decorations printed on them directly. Regardless I will likely try to make a two-sided print sheet available so if your printer is accurate enough they will line up front to back, and will probably do a dark blue\/light blue coding on either the pipes or the backgrounds to help visually identify the \"flipped\" tiles.)\n\nOne cool thing about the paths is that while they don't enforce perfect tilings they do visually exclude a lot of positions which don't tile, so shapes will be more closed. I'm expecting to have some kind of a \"if gaps happen that's ok but you have to be reasonable about your placements\" rule.","comments":5,"comments-timestamp":"2023-04-29T17:35:50Z","created":"2023-04-29T16:14:14Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":362664,"love":10,"love-timestamp":"2023-04-29T20:29:50Z","meta":[],"modified":"2023-04-29T20:29:50Z","name":"A Start!","node-timestamp":"2023-04-29T16:43:13Z","parent":362662,"parents":[1,5,9,332127,362662],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/53\/hat-game\/a-start","published":"2023-04-29T16:43:13Z","scope":"public","slug":"a-start","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":1105686},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"362664","n_urlkey":"426178","n_parent":"362662","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/53\/hat-game\/a-start","n_slug":"a-start","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"133764","n_created":"1682784854","n_modified":"1682800190","n_version":"1105686","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/53\/hat-game\/a-start","text":"I've been thinking it would be fun to play around with the new \"hat\" aperiodic monotile, and the theme seems like a great fit with a variant of the monotile shared by Carlos Luna-Mota on Mastodon with [pipes](https:\/\/mathstodon.xyz\/@carlos_lunamota\/110171345407668765).\n\nThis morning I imported the image from Carlos' 3d printing plans to Inkscape, played around with it a bit, and made a print sheet that's not *too* wasteful (they tile, but not very neatly to a rectangle).\n\n![PXL_20230429_161252055.jpg](\/\/\/raw\/48a\/02\/z\/57e3c.jpg)\n\nI printed and cut my first sheet and I'm now playing around with the pieces to see what I can come up with.\n\n![PXL_20230429_162432098.jpg](\/\/\/raw\/48a\/02\/z\/57e4a.jpg)\n\n(The dark blue on is \"flipped\", and I'm currently using a similar blue convention to the original paper for that. I'm not quite sure how this is going to become a game: whether the tiles will be identical or have decorations printed on them directly. Regardless I will likely try to make a two-sided print sheet available so if your printer is accurate enough they will line up front to back, and will probably do a dark blue\/light blue coding on either the pipes or the backgrounds to help visually identify the \"flipped\" tiles.)\n\nOne cool thing about the paths is that while they don't enforce perfect tilings they do visually exclude a lot of positions which don't tile, so shapes will be more closed. I'm expecting to have some kind of a \"if gaps happen that's ok but you have to be reasonable about your placements\" rule.","title":"A Start!","wayback_source":[]}