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Flip - A puzzle for your eyes and your brain

Discussion in 'Made With Unity' started by suribe, May 17, 2014.

  1. suribe

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    Hi,

    Last week I released Flip, my first game in a long time. It was made with Unity, and is available for Windows and Android (more ports coming soon). It is a puzzle game where you rotate pieces to match a desired configuration. It has 4 level types and more than 1000 puzzles.






    Official page:
    http://perroelectrico.com/flip

    There you can find images, videos and links to download.


    It was reviewed already by a couple websites, notably Rock Paper Shotgun:
    http://rockpapershotgun.com/2014/05/12/rubiks-surface-flip
     
    suribe, May 17, 2014
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  2. suribe

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    suribe, May 17, 2014
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  3. casperjeff

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    I love the 'wired' levels.
    Can't get a feel for how the user selects which 'set' of items he wants to flip though...how do controls work?
     
    casperjeff, May 17, 2014
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  4. BrainMelter

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    BrainMelter, May 17, 2014
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  5. suribe

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    Very, very interesting link, turkeypotpie, thanks! I actually got the idea from ordering coins (I have stacks of coins, with varying degrees of "shininess"), but clearly pankakes might make more sense, specially given the "flip" act. :)
    I'm gonna read the paper to see if I could have done my solver more efficiently, although there are some differences, I think, specially when I introduce sided pieces.

    @casperjeff: you choose a 'pivot' coin, and you turn all the coins to its left or to its right. You can try the demo at suribe.itch.io/flip. On mobile it feels much better, though.
     
    suribe, May 18, 2014
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  6. BrainMelter

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    The author is the most interesting part :)

    More info on pancake sorting:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancake_sorting
     
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    BrainMelter, May 18, 2014
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  7. suribe

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    hehe, had not noticed that! Checking wikipedia, I see that the "sided" puzzles are actually burnt pancakes, and how to sort them was solved by a Simpsons writer:
    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0166218X94000093 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_X._Cohen

    Maybe I should now design a game based on the dining philosophers problem...
     
    suribe, May 18, 2014
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