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Re: 2048

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Post by deevus » Tue, Mar 11, 2014, 9:44 AM UTC

2732 just by spamming keys for 10 seconds.

Re: 2048

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Post by sajithdilshan » Tue, Mar 11, 2014, 9:47 AM UTC

siddboots wrote: post #214

gopalv wrote: post #151

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Programmer Step #2 - write an automated solver :)

I thought about this for 5 minutes and really got nowhere. Can anyone come up with a nice analytic way to think about an algorithm? There are a couple of brute force approaches: a) always pick the direction that will result in the most blocks to combine, b) always pick the direction that will result in the largest score.

How about using A* algorithm?

Re: 2048

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Post by terabytest » Tue, Mar 11, 2014, 9:50 AM UTC

jf wrote: post #150

pje wrote: post #117

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Please allow me to throw money at you somehow

Yes! At the very least put up a BTC or Dogecoin address we can send donations to!

Not sure if I can do that. Wouldn't it be unethical and unfair to the other developers?

Re: 2048

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Post by IE5point5 » Tue, Mar 11, 2014, 9:55 AM UTC

Weak game to be honest, it's tedium and meaningless for 10 minutes then the actual game begins for the next 2

Re: 2048

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Post by gavinpc » Tue, Mar 11, 2014, 9:57 AM UTC

The first step is admitting that you have 2^N problems.

Re: 2048

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Post by elleferrer » Tue, Mar 11, 2014, 10:03 AM UTC

terabytest wrote: post #17

Hey, author here! I'm pretty overwhelmed that this made it to the top of HN without me even thinking of posting it here :) I made this game as a fun weekend project, inspired by another game called 1024 ( https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1024!/id823499224 ) and a spinoff called 2048 ( http://saming.fr/p/2048/ ). I did mine to add animations to the latter, which was a bit hard to play without them. I discovered Threes…

Ah! This game IS addicting! My highest so far is around 3500.

Re: 2048

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Post by pointernil » Tue, Mar 11, 2014, 10:15 AM UTC

And now we start the social experiment:

"Will 2048 ever reach 2048 points on HN? And how long will it stay at exact that number of points?"

Good luck everyone! ;)

Re: 2048

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Post by filipm » Tue, Mar 11, 2014, 10:16 AM UTC

terabytest wrote: post #17

Hey, author here! I'm pretty overwhelmed that this made it to the top of HN without me even thinking of posting it here :) I made this game as a fun weekend project, inspired by another game called 1024 ( https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1024!/id823499224 ) and a spinoff called 2048 ( http://saming.fr/p/2048/ ). I did mine to add animations to the latter, which was a bit hard to play without them. I discovered Threes…

Hi Gabriele, I created a mirror of your project with an easier memorable name at

http://2048.mx/

:-) Hope that's fine. It might take an hour or so for the domain to be accessible for everyone due to DNS cache.

Re: 2048

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Post by frevd » Tue, Mar 11, 2014, 10:23 AM UTC

Couldn't figure out how to play it at first - because in IE11 it doesn't work as intended - check your code.

Re: 2048

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Post by arijitraja » Tue, Mar 11, 2014, 10:31 AM UTC

I was searching on google and quora trying to know what are ideal posts for hackers on HN. Thanks - your post just just answered my question!