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Show HN: A pixel art puzzle game for mobile using PixiJS
The idea for this pixel art puzzle game came from playing Triominos, and wondering what would happen if you replaced numbers with colors. A few mutations later, and it became a mobile game where you click a piece to turn it in place, to recreate pixel art.
I built the basic idea in just over an hour on Twitch.
Dev-wise, I used a homebrew Typescript game engine I created, called Booyah (https://github.com/play-curious/booyah https://github.com/play-curious/booyah). The graphics are all rendered using the awesome library PixiJS.
What do you think?
- ofrzeta 3y agoThe puzzle pixel aesthetic reminds me of eBoy FixPix.
- himmelattack 3y agoI didn’t know that game. That’s a cool concept!
- antoineMoPa 3y agoThat's cute and relaxing! Love the animations when I finish a puzzle.
- himmelattack 3y agoThanks! Those are thanks to my art director, he does amazing work
- cloudking 3y agoNeat animations and sound effects has a nice video game feel. Next feature should scramble the tiles and let you drag them back to place in addition to rotating, make it more challenging.
- himmelattack 3y agoOooh that is a good idea. I should try that
- cloudking 3y agoYeah I think it's just too easy! After you do that, wrap it up into a native mobile app wrapper and put it on the app and play store. I think you would have greater success marketing there.
- himmelattack 3y agoThe android version is done already! Though still in beta… https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=games.playcurious.pixelpuzzler https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=games.playcuri...
- cloudking 3y agoNice, is it using a WebView? How did you build it?
- himmelattack 3y agoYup, that's right. I looked at a bunch of solutions and chose Cordova- it's kinda old tech these days, but still works quite well for what I need.
- dgreensp 3y agoTapping would be much more satisfying if it didn’t take so long for a tile to get bigger and then start turning. Maybe it could smoothly get bigger and smaller and turn in one motion.
- iamlolz 3y agoThis is great, well done. I'd love to be able to disable the hints (maybe I missed the setting)
- himmelattack 3y agoOk good idea !