Saturday, March 19, 2005
 
Game in a Day? Yes and no.
Okay, I started working on this at about noon on the 18th. It's now almost 9:00 AM on the 19th, and the gameplay is already implemented.

If you download the game, you will be able to move the bars with your cursor keys, and swap rows and columns with the 'A' and 'X' keys. Give it a try!

So, was this an entire game in a day? Not quite. Some things are still missing:
  • Automatically collapsing columns horizontally.
  • Adding a font to show the score.
  • Recognizing an end-game situation.
  • Difficulty levels (by changing the number of different colors, the number of balls in a row/column, etc.)
  • All the front-end stuff (where I beg for registration money, give instructions on how to play the game, and make a decent loading screen).
Still, all the basic gameplay functionality is there already. Sweet.


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- posted by BrandG @ 6:48 AM
Comments:
That would be pretty interesting, given that you would still have the same mechanic of accidentally creating small words while you're trying to build your bigger word. Also, it would assign a value to the balls themselves (because you want to put the 'Q' and 'U' together more than you would worry about using up the 'E's).
# posted by Blogger BrandG : 3:19 PM
 
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