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Re: Game about squares

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Post by psawaya »

thisjepisje wrote: post #30
Thiz wrote: post #15

I love this kind of games. Reminds me of good ol' Sokoban. Where are the mobile versions? I'd like to play it in my iPad. Kudos.

Sokoban rules, you can get it for free here: http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/231/Sokoban.html You need DosBox to play that. But there's probably a multitude of online clones as well.

I made a web based one a few years ago which I'll take the opportunity to shamelessly plug: http://sokobanjs.com

Re: Game about squares

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Post by Artemis2 »

khoury wrote: post #28
pseudometa wrote: post #26

And go! Tomorrow this game in full will appear on the Google Play store with the exact same colors. In 3 days this game will be rewritten in Swift, Erlang, and have a community based variation. In 4 days someone will find a way to merge this game with 2048 and Flappy Bird. In a week there will be 20 variations of this game including one called Dodge Squares on the iTunes App Store. I'm not psychic, I've just seen thi…

In a month, someone writes a QBASIC version with random map generation and a month later, someone writes a javascript AI that can play it.

The next day, Twitch will play it.

Re: Game about squares

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Post by tobias2014 »

It should be possible to write a solver for this with a "decision tree". There are decisions where the blocks run out of the screen - you ignore these. You only take into account "sensible" decisions (this has to be formalized). When there are multiple possible "sensible" decisions you branch. One decision consists of an action "click x times on block X and y times on block Y …"

Re: Game about squares

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Post by LukeShu »

PeterWhittaker wrote: post #23

With cookies disabled, it tells me I have an "old and rusty" browser. How odd. (FF 31 on OSX, why do you ask?)

I also got that with FF 31.

For me, it was because I had dom.storage.enabled=false. LocalStorage obeys cookie settings, so I guess disabling cookies would do that too.

Re: Game about squares

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Post by zalzane »

pseudometa wrote: post #26

And go! Tomorrow this game in full will appear on the Google Play store with the exact same colors. In 3 days this game will be rewritten in Swift, Erlang, and have a community based variation. In 4 days someone will find a way to merge this game with 2048 and Flappy Bird. In a week there will be 20 variations of this game including one called Dodge Squares on the iTunes App Store. I'm not psychic, I've just seen thi…

and every single variation is going to hit the front page of hacker news
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