My last one for this year, I *think*



http://www.cokeandcode.com/fourkay/shuffle/

(webstart if you prefer)

Drag the coloured blocks to slide them round the level. When two blocks of the same colour touch they will join and can then only be moved together. Move the coloured blocks to the matching coloured targets (dashed boxes) to complete the level.

All the details are on the page. You get a yellow box for completing the level and a green one for getting it done on target moves. The given targets are what I've (and others) have done them in - there may still be better solutions available (if you find one, please post a screenshot).

Still a work in progress (though all 16 levels are available now). Any bugs or issues reported much appreciated. No room left for new features, but I think I might try to write a bigger version after the contest.

Kev

Nice work Kev, not the best looking game so far but in my opinion probably the one with the most depth.

Thanks Markus.


Cheers for that!. I was hoping for clean presentation with polish (i.e. sliding menus etc) rather than going for the effects crazy approach. Of course theres only so much you can do with putty blocks - I do miss the little faces though


Thanks, and I totally agree. I'm hoping this one is playable and completeable by all - rather than the few that managed to get through putty puzzle . I'll update the target for level 5, thanks for that!


Aye, it was the first level I designed and strange that one with so little in it can be such a mind blower. It's common though, everyone seems to have a bit of a trouble with that one.

If anyone is interested, #7 is my fave.

Kev

Thanks for all the hard work, updated the version to move the text slightly and add the updated targets (I just need to solve them now ).

Hope you had some fun playing!

Kev

This way, someone actually plays it

Kev

Nice game (again!).  Only managed to play about the first 8 or so so far.  I beat the par on level 5 though -- 10/12, see attachment.

Damn it Ok, I'll update it again unless anyone can do it in less?

Kev

Heh! Ok, 7 it is.

Kev

congrats, very nice entry, so far its the 4k game i've spent the longest playing.

Thanks for all the positive feedback!

Kev

Had another play on it this evening.  The presentation really helps, it doesn't feel like a normal 4k game.

The level design is pretty good too. I keep on finding new ways to do solve them -

Level 5 in 6 moves.
Level 11 in 15 moves.
Level 13 in 20 moves.
Level 15 in 22 moves.

Edit: one small bug I suppose. If you try to drag a block in a direction that it can't go, it still counts as a move.

There's another minor bug. After you complete a level it still shows the "Restart" button, but all clicks take you back to the level selection menu.

Level 16 can be done in 12 it seems!

Kev

Hi Kev,

Great Blog.  I was thinking about porting my World Rally Driver 4K game to Android, so I did some performance tests.  I rotated and drew a 2000x2000 bitmap.  It jumped around between 18 and 26 fps on the Emulator (v1.1r1).  Your blog pointed out that the Emulator was about 5 times slower on your PC, I'm running the emulator on a Vista Laptop Core Duo 2GHz.  I can't imagine the phone would be able to rotate and render a 2000x2000 bitmap at around 100fps (I don't really want to shell out $AUD900 for the phone just yet, and don't know anyone with one. ).  Did you ever find out what the bottleneck was for Putty Shuffle on the emulator?

Thanks!

EDIT: Just realised I was doing something silly in my test code, now fixed it and get between 27 and 40 fps on the Emulator!

Ah, yes.  Just did a test on getRGB / setRGB to getPixel / setPixel.  In Java my test ran for about 4 seconds.  In Android it took over 3 mins!!!