smearle/puzzlescript-gists

PuzzleScript Human-Authored Games (Full Gist Corpus)

34,139 human-authored PuzzleScript games — the complete source text of each — collected from public GitHub gists.

This is the full corpus: every distinct gist is kept, and each row is tagged with its deduplication cluster so you can reduce to a unique set with a one-line filter. The deduplication is reproducible from the shipped dedup_master.json + dedup_master.py; non-vanilla PuzzleScript-Plus files are excluded (listed in quarantine_ps_plus_manifest.txt, reproducible via detect_non_vanilla.py).

Each game defines rewrite rules (mechanics) and one or more levels (initial states) — useful for world models of grid-puzzle dynamics, code generation, program synthesis, and game design.

Fields

field	description
id	the raw GitHub gist id
content	full PuzzleScript source
provenance	curated_collection or gist_scrape (category only; no handles)
parse_status	ok, parse_error, preprocess_error, timeout
n_objects, n_levels	counts (parsed games)
mechanics_hash, levels_hash	canonical, name/art-invariant fingerprints
dedup_group	deduplication cluster key
is_dedup_representative	True for one game per cluster
n_in_dedup_group	cluster size

Deduplicating

from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("smearle/puzzlescript-gists", split="train")
unique = ds.filter(lambda r: r["is_dedup_representative"])   # 24,735 distinct games

A game is a duplicate only when both its mechanics and levels fingerprints match an already-kept game, so genuine small variants are retained.

Provenance & license

Collected from public GitHub gists (the canonical PuzzleScript share target) and other public PuzzleScript archives. Rows are anonymized to a provenance category; the gist id is retained as the identifier. These are third-party, human-authored works redistributed for research; treat each game as belonging to its original author. License: other.