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A Puzzle Game.
The objective is to remove as many squares as possible.

The area around the square you move is affected.

R = red
G = green
B = blue
X = Blank

affected area.

RRG
BGR
GBB

Tells say you replace the central Green with a Red square you would remove the following Red squares.

XXG
BXX
GBB

Name:	space squares.rar
Date:	28/ 6/2007
Size:	187.1 KB
Version:
Author:	mac-10
Website:
Downloads:	817
Full English Review:

Operating Systems:

gp2x F100
gp2x F200

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2 Comments

Thunor:

2007-06-30

Overall it's nicely presented. At first I didn't think I was going to be able to cope with the smallness of the "squares" because some of the icons on them are difficult to identify but I realised after a short time that it's possible to ignore the icons and concentrate on the colours.

For me there are a few issues with the cursor navigation :-

No button repeat makes navigation of the board tiresome
The cursor needs to wrap around at the board edges
There's no diagonal movement
There's some mild flickering on the main menu and in-game when moving the cursor. It looks as though you are updating the entire screen every time a button is pressed.

What's the difference between a "standard game" and a "random game"? You don't mention it in the readme. I think it's simply that the random game is smaller and not necessarily equal in width and heigth.

I have found some interesting game mechanics that possibly you are aware of but I'm not sure they are correct :-

It is possible to pick up an empty space and swap it with a square
If there are two or more matching squares adjoining one another and I pick up one and immediately put it back in the same place, its matching neighbours disappear but the one I picked up doesn't.
Once a game has started there is no way to return to the main menu even when completing a game. The user is required to press Start to quit to the GP2X and then run the game again.

On game completion I'm presented with my score and nothing is done with it. It would be nice to have a high score table so that I have an incentive to play again.

I've enjoyed what I've played of it.

Regards

mac10:

Hi Thunor Thank for the input. I will defiantly look in to the cursor navigation issues. As for the game mechanics your first point was intentional swapping an empty space will a square allows the player of position squares more strategically to be the best chance for a combo i.e. X0X 000 X0X And you second point that is a bug :) which I will fix ASAP This is my first game so some of the other things such as the score table Is some thing I would really like to include but currently don�t know how. Thanks Mac

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