Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection
From wiki.gp2x.org
| Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Colleciton | |
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| Download | http://www.ledow.org.uk/gp2x/ |
| Original Developer | Simon Tatham and others |
| Ported By | Ledow |
| Version | Beta 4 |
| Webpage | http://www.ledow.org.uk/gp2x/ |
| Status | working, testing |
| Controls (Ingame) | |
| Button | Action |
|---|---|
| Move cursor |
| Left mouse button |
| Middle mouse button |
| Right mouse button |
| Decrease number for entry |
| Increase number for entry |
| Enter current number |
| Menu/New game |
| Restart current game |
| Controls (Combinations) | |
| Button | Action |
|---|---|
| Solve |
| Solve |
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| Quit |
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| Quit |
"Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection" is a port (by Ledow) of the games available at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/. This is a collection of 27 small puzzle games, ranging from a Minesweeper-clone, a Peg Solitaire-clone and a Sudoku-clone to more unique games such as Net, Map and Tents. Many of them are based on Flash puzzles seen on the Internet.
Originally written for Windows, GTK and MacOS, these were ported by Ledow to SDL and customised for use on the GP2X. All games except "mines" are playable, if not perfect conversions, and each game is self-contained so that players can pick and choose which ones to load on their GP2X.
The GP2X conversion, based on a recent SVN snapshot of the collection, is currently nearing completion and in the final stages of testing (as of 9th May 2008). Source code to the port is also released under the terms of the original MIT license.
Contents |
The Games
- Black Box
- Find the hidden balls in the box by bouncing laser beams off them.
- Bridges
- Connect all the islands with a network of bridges. (This game is also known as Hashiwokakero.)
- Cube
- Pick up all the blue squares by rolling the cube over them.
- Dominosa
- Tile the rectangle with a full set of dominoes.
- Fifteen
- Slide the tiles around to arrange them into order.
- Filling
- Mark every square with the area of its containing region.
- Flip
- Flip groups of squares to light them all up at once.
- Galaxies
- Divide the grid into rotationally symmetric regions each centred on a dot.
- Guess
- Guess the hidden combination of colours. (A variant of Mastermind.)
- Inertia
- Collect all the gems without running into any of the mines.
- Light Up
- Place bulbs to light up all the squares.
- Loopy
- Draw a single closed loop in accordance with the clues. (This game is also known as Slitherlink.)
- Map
- Colour the map so that adjacent regions are never the same colour.
- Mines
- Find all the mines without treading on any of them. (An implementation of Minesweeper.) NOT WORKING IN CURRENT BETA VERSIONS
- Net
- Rotate each tile to reassemble the network.
- Netslide
- Slide a row at a time to reassemble the network.
- Pattern
- Fill in the pattern in the grid, given only the lengths of runs of black squares. (This game is also known as Nonogram.)
- Pegs
- Jump pegs over each other to remove all but one.
- Rectangles
- Divide the grid into rectangles with areas equal to the numbers. (This game is also known as Shikaku.)
- SameGame
- Clear the grid by removing touching groups of the same colour squares.
- Sixteen
- Slide a row at a time to arrange the tiles into order.
- Slant
- Draw a maze of slanting lines that matches the clues. (This game is also known as Gokigen Naname.)
- Solo
- Fill in the grid so that each row, column and square block contains one of every digit. (This game is commonly known as Sudoku.)
- Tents
- Place a tent next to each tree.
- Twiddle
- Rotate the tiles around themselves to arrange them into order.
- Unequal
- Complete the Latin square in accordance with the > signs. (This game is also known as Futoshiki.)
- Untangle
- Reposition the points so that the lines do not cross. (This game is an implementation of Planarity.)
Development
The puzzle collection was designed to be portable and, as such, is already available for a variety of platforms included Windows, Linux, MacOS, Palm, Nintendo DS, etc. The GP2X port was developed by converting the code to use an SDL interface (and therefore also allowing further ports to even more platforms easily - there are rumours of PSP ports based off this work). The puzzle collection comes with extensive developer documentation on how to implement new "frontends" for various platforms as well as how to develop new puzzles without having to worry about which platform it is going to run on.
For STPPC2x, there are several thousand lines of code just associated with the porting, which were written using the "pico" text editor in plain C. The code makes use of various libraries including the Open2x GCC toolchain and libraries, Paeryn's hardware accelerated SDL library, SDL_gfx and some DejaVu fonts. There is a development blog for the port at: http://stppc2x.blogspot.com/
An early work-in-progress screenshot with side-by-side comparison of the SDL and GTK versions.
Original forum post where the idea of porting it was first brought up on 6th January 2008. Nobody else was interested, so Ledow took it upon himself to port the collection.
Released Games
The games are released in a playable state in the latest Beta version. Only one game does not work at all (mines), the rest can be played from start to finish with only very minor display problems. All of the released versions are listed below. Each download is mirrored at the porter's website at http://www.ledow.org.uk/gp2x/.
Beta versions of the complete collection
Beta 4 - Released 6th May 2008
Beta 3 - Released 19th April 2008
Beta 2 - Released 9th April 2008
Beta 1 - Released 2nd April 2008
Earlier test versions
Net - Released 30th March 2008
Untangle - Released 29th March 2008
External links
Categories: Games | Ports | SDL | Source Available
