Yay! I did it!
I started development at the very last moment (IRC folks can confirm), because I was super busy with my work these whole two weeks. I was already sleepy and tired, heh, but I’ve managed to finish.
This is a hexagonal grid style puzzle game. Each tile is an RGB light emitting diode with a small energy cell.
Combine cells of the same value to drive LED to the full power.
What I did in four hours:
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Graphics in Photoshop. Basically very few were needed.
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Found music and sounds.
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Figured out how to work with hex maps thanks to this incredible tutorial http://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/
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Swipe recognition in 6 directions.
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Moving tiles / combining tiles.
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Found out why all Corona apps crash on certain devices (received 1 star for Laser Puzzle during the blitz because of that), turns out Android fails to load OpenSL ES library and game crashes. Need to bugreport.
Extra time was needed:
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A nasty bug, when tiles occasionally occupy a place they don’t belong to.
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Prepare forum post and video
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Eat
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN2HSNmU2D8[/video]
Screenshots:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/55969280/hex/1.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/55969280/hex/2.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/55969280/hex/3.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/55969280/hex/4.png
Sorry, I won’t share the code for this one. This is going to be published soon.
UPDATE
So the game is nearly finished for the stores. Here is a video of it’s current state.
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbbIHoc-NyM[/video]
UPDATE2 So
The game is out on Google Play! Will be available on iOS on Saturday!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spiralcodestudio.hexled
