How 913 Puzzles Became 7,304 Levels: Procedural Variation on a Precomputed Puzzle Bank

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Meowdoku ships over a hundred levels and keeps growing. Every one of them has to be provably solvable. This is a Star Battle-style puzzle, so a malformed board is a dead end the player can't solve. You can either generate levels at runtime with a solver or hand-author them. Neither works well in practice.

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