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Re: 2048

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Post by mattw1810 » Mon, Mar 10, 2014, 5:48 PM UTC

peshkira wrote: post #4

I love it! Really great and well done. I'd appreciate it, if someone can share a few more links with similar puzzlers on the web.

If you've got an Android phone, Slide (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.pentapixel...) is pretty similar (yet not quite the same).

Re: 2048

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Post by aeiowu » Mon, Mar 10, 2014, 5:50 PM UTC

Beat it on my first try: http://cl.ly/image/023K3o2F3X2P

Re: 2048

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Post by jobigoud » Mon, Mar 10, 2014, 5:50 PM UTC

Ok, I give up. I managed to get a 512 and a 256 but then there is so little place to build up…

Re: 2048

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Post by RealCasually » Mon, Mar 10, 2014, 5:51 PM 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…

Very fun game! Love the dynamic, couldn't get higher than 256 though. Also check out Fives for Android--somewhat similar: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rcg.fives

Re: 2048

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Post by gyom » Mon, Mar 10, 2014, 5:54 PM UTC

I never imagined that I would one day feel like I'm "downing in my own filth of useless powers of 2".

Re: 2048

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Post by wiredfool » Mon, Mar 10, 2014, 5:55 PM UTC

phillmv wrote: post #52

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…

Holy shit I just lost like 45 minutes to this.

Evil evil game.

Re: 2048

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Post by PaulJulius » Mon, Mar 10, 2014, 5:55 PM UTC

I managed to get 2048 on my first try. Different enough from Threes to stay interesting, but a lot of the same strategy applies. In Threes though, the number that appears has a higher chance of being a bigger number (24, 48, even higher later) the longer the game goes on. There were a few times I was almost stuck and was able to get out of it by continually moving in the same direction and sucking up 2s.

http://cl.ly/image/462B1P0Y250T

Re: 2048

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Post by ctdonath » Mon, Mar 10, 2014, 5:56 PM 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…

Make sure not to get addicted!

Hah. It's binary crack.

Re: 2048

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Post by yeldarb » Mon, Mar 10, 2014, 5:57 PM UTC

terabytest wrote: post #45

deletes wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How many reached 2048?

The latest stats show no "game-win" events :P It might just be a matter of time though. EDIT: oops, there was a bug in the win/lose tracking so I probably missed out on a few wins. I fixed it now, so it should hopefully track it if someone else wins!

I just beat it! First try.. but I've been addicted to Threes for the past week or so.

http://i.imgur.com/nf25AVZ.png

Re: 2048

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Post by Uhhrrr » Mon, Mar 10, 2014, 5:58 PM UTC

selter01 wrote: post #21

I wonder if there's an optimal strategy. Hmm.

So far the best heuristic I've found is to not let smaller blocks get trapped behind bigger ones.