[JOM]

Greetings,

http://jouni.miettunen.googlepages.com/unity

Version 2.20, release date 2008-10-31

• Disable screensaver when at foreground
• Disable sensor when at background
• Startup board size Small (5x6)
• Cursor stays at selected non-empty tile when rotating
• Simple end detection (1 tile remaining)
• 3 - Jump level, for testing purposes
• Fix: all top10 scores numbered 1-10
• Tested on N82 (sensors)

HOX: Unity works in both accelerometer enabled devices and also in normal ones! If you have e.g. N82, turn the device sideways. Otherwise use keypad shortcuts (2 up, 6 right, 8 down, 4 left).

The idea is to clear the whole playing area by removing tiles in groups. The more tiles you remove at the same time, the more points you get. The trick is that the scoring system is exponential:

1 tile - cannot be removed
2 tiles - (2-2) ** 2 == 0 points
3 tiles - (3-2) ** 2 == 1
4 tiles - (4-2) ** 2 == 4
5 tiles - (5-2) ** 2 == 9
...
12 tiles - (12-2) ** 2 == 100
13 tiles - (13-2) ** 2 == 121
14 tiles - (14-2) ** 2 == 144
15 tiles - (15-2) ** 2 == 169
...
n tiles - (n-2) ** 2 == Lots of points

Tip: You should remove small groups in order to create larger groups. When the group is big enough even just one more tile will make a big difference!

When you remove tiles, the space will be filled by tiles above falling down. Empty columns will be filled by sliding remaining columns to left. If you manage to clear the whole field, you will get 1000 points as a bonus and go to next level.

Accelerometer Sensor usage

Turn device (up / down / left / right) to change which way tiles collapse. This allows you to get further on the game, by kind of "reshuffling" remaining tiles. Just keep rotating the device until you can remove the last ones

Keyboard usage

Use arrow keys (joystick) to move the white selection rectangle around the board. Press Select (joystick) to remove tile and all neighbouring tiles with same color. Press Backspace (C key, Clear key) to undo one last move.

• 2 (Two) - Drop tiles upwards, shift columns right
• 3 (Three) - Jump 3 levels forwards (for testing purposes)
• 4 (Four) - Drop tiles leftwards, shift columns up
• 5 (five) - New game
• 6 (six)- Drop tiles rightwards, shift columns down
• 7 (seven) - Take screenshot
• 8 (eight) - Drop tiles downwards, shift columns left
• * (star ) - Small board
• 0 (zero) - Normal board
• # (hash) - Large board
• C (clear) - Undo last move (only one move)

Screenshots are saved into C:\Data\Images.

Enjoy,

--jouni

[croozeus]

Hi Jouni,

Fantastic, was waiting for this.

Great work!

I tried it on my N95! Now this seems a very polished version

Btw, as I had mentioned before, do try to keep previous versions downloadable somewhere on the site

Best Regards,
Croozeus

[JOM]

Originally Posted by croozeus

I tried it on my N95! Now this seems a very polished version

Well, I'm not happy with the rotation and will change it some day! It works as I planned, but now that I see it in action it just isn't natural enough. Tiles should drop and shift based on gravity. That would be the right way

Btw, as I had mentioned before, do try to keep previous versions downloadable somewhere on the site

I know what you mean, when I "lost" sources for 2.10 and overwrote the SIS with 2.20 content by mistake. Guess I'll have to install subversion and give up on manual version control. There's a saying "suutarin lapsilla ei ole kenkiä", but I have no idea what's that in English

As for keeping older versions online, I already have 54 files on googlepages.com. It's getting out of control, so adding all older versions for all apps would increase that with maybe 50+ files and that definitely would be too much...

I write too much, I guess The bigger problem is that there's dozens more I would like to write, some already started (hopefully next sw will be an address book related helper tool, unless I write a game by accident).

Cheers,

--jouni

[cyke64]

Hello JOM ,

Congrat for the new version

But don't forget to update file names on your website (2.2 instead of 2.1

Happy gaming
Cyke64

[JOM]

Originally Posted by cyke64

But don't forget to update file names on your website (2.2 instead of 2.1

Well,

Minor side-effects from getting up at 0600.. Now version numbers should be ok and links should point to updated files

Hungry,

--jouni

[Rafael T.]

Hi Jouni,

Thanks for this update

I really felt the absence of detecting automatically when the game was over on the former versions. Thanks for implementing this!

Congratulations and continue great work


BR,

Rafael.