Comments on: The Only Thing Missing Is Janet Ellis

By: Herb

Herb — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:54:04 +0000

I like xjig… but you have to compile it, and it sits best on Linux systems. But you can run it with Cygwin. And script it so it works with whatever images you like. I wrote a handy little wrapper for it called “jigger”…

Lord, I am a nerd, it seems. But I like jigsaw puzzles on my computer!

By: Bobsy

Bobsy — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:52:07 +0000

Ah, much better. Thanks Lucky, Jigsaws Galore is far, far superior. And free! (well, free enough)

By: Lucky

Lucky — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:21:51 +0000

Meh, Jigsaws Galore has always been quite enough for me. http://www.dgray.com/index.html

By: cheeba

cheeba — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:07:42 +0000

Nice touch sneaking Noseybonk in there. Unclean!

By: Bobsy

Bobsy — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:22:16 +0000

Ugh. Jigsaws are great – this isn’t. Sloppy and broken doesn’t come close: it’s a big messy cover for what should be a remarkably simple and free game (there’s no way this is worth $20). All you really need is the ability to import a jpg and have it generate a jigsaw from it. But this thing dresses it up in needless tarty clothing, rams the most insipid, irritating, hateful music into your brain and then sticks an errant hand out to try and get money off you.

A loading screen for the options menu is automatic fail.

By: gaijin

gaijin — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:27:25 +0000

On topic only re the oldtime BBC programme – I worked with a chap once who had just got a new book about pickling. He was very excited about the prospect of some home made pickles, and one night when we were in the pub he informed me that he now had all the necessaries to begin production. In fact he was off home now to do just that. The next morning I enquired how it had gone and he shook his head morosely. “no ****ing good.” (he swore quite lot) “got home all raring to go with the ****ing pickles, and i couldn’t get int’ ****ing kitchen. Janet Ellis and Sophie Ellis Bextor were in there drinking ****ing tea with the missus.”
I have thought ever since that I wish that was the kind of problem I have.

By: Hypocee

Hypocee — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:31:49 +0000

Yeah – there are so many full-featured, free jigsaw puzzle programs that’ll do your own pictures (or videos!), that to charge for one you really have to have achieved Nirvana.

I thought this was going to be a jigsaw program that did some clever wizardry to make, say, a surreal infinite panorama from landscape photos, or scenes out of sprites – an infinite jigsaw that you progress along. I wonder if something like that exists.

By: danielcardigan

danielcardigan — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:48:59 +0000

http://www.jigzone.com/

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:16:17 +0000

I would buy a jigsaw game that wasn’t so terribly broken and that could grab images from google image search or your my pictures folder. Or most terrifyingly of all your internet cache! Also rotation is very important and should have multiple control options, like rolling the mouse wheel and tap right to in right hold right to go left.

When a game is this close to empty it needs to be just as close to perfect.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:29:05 +0000

Yeah, that was implied by John at the end, hence the hilarity. The last jigsaw I did was in Professor Layton and the Curious Village, not sure if that counts though.

By: bc9b89

bc9b89 — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:54:08 +0000

The whole jigsaw argument is doubly funny because I’m pretty sure the puzzle is named after the tool. When you make one out of wood you use a jigsaw to cut it, so yea, Jigsaw Origns. Now they are made of cardboard, but the name stuck I guess.

By: Dorian Cornelius Jasper

Dorian Cornelius Jasper — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:05:08 +0000

Americans call jigsaw puzzles… jigsaw puzzles. It’s true, our TVs say it is so.