The Shoebox. A place for lil' apps to live in peace and harmony.

A mysteriously familiar puzzle game. Click on a piece, then another adjacent (not diagonal) piece to swap them.
Only swaps that complete a 3-in-a-row match or more are allowed.
The more pieces you match in one move, the higher the score gained.
You can play in regular mode or timed mode.
High scores are saved.

Please use version 1.1, it fixes a major bug.

Versions:
1.1, 5 February 2009: Fixed crash on new game, plus a few minor fixes.
1.0, 4 February 2009: First version, main features in place.

Update: crash bug in version 1.0 was fixed (was due to a poorly placed recursive call, presumably causing a stack overflow).


Speak now or forever hold your peace:

Sobe
February 4, 2009

Really nice app !
The exe does not works on my XP, but the script is OK, so…

ehsanul
April 16, 2009

Damn, JUST as I was thinking that it sure must be hard to make sure that there’s always a way to make points, I get a “game over, no more moves”. I was hoping it didn’t rely on luck to make sure it’s always possible to get points, but it does know that I have no more moves, so that’s great!

I might just try to figure out how to make it always give me at least one way to make some points. Maybe even add smoother animation.

Todd
April 21, 2009

Doesn’t work on ubuntu with Shoes2.run

ShardPhoenix (the author)
May 1, 2009

ehsanul: I followed the behavior of the original game there. Otherwise the game would never end!

Todd: I don’t have ubuntu installed on my computer any more so I can’t test this myself I’m afraid.


How do I use this?