Tuesday, 9 September 2008

New Game: Colourific!


Sorry for the late post - I published a new colour matching puzzle game two weeks ago. It has currently been featured on the home page of http://www.simscarnival.com/ for about a week and has already been played over 1100 times!

In this game coloured blocks fall from the top of the screen and stack up at the bottom. The player must click on blocks which have blocks of the same colour next to them to make them disappear. To add to the challenge I have set the game to only give points for groups of three or more, though strategically it can be good to clear groups of only two.

I drew the graphics myself in Fireworks and created the sounds effects using a very useful utility called Sfxr. I used a public domain recording of a ragtime piano piece by Scott Joplin for the background music.

The Game Creator code for finding groups of blocks of the same colour is quite interesting. Hopefully I'll get around to writing about it soon but in the meantime you can download the game and look at it yourself in Game Creator.

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