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- Tiles! 12/16/88
-
- Tiles! is your basic no-frills Shanghai-type game. A board is covered
- with a set of 144 tiles, 36 different suits of 4 identical tiles, each with
- a picture on it. The object is to remove all the tiles, 2 at a time, by
- matching pairs of identical tiles. Select one tile and it becomes
- hilighted. Select another matching tile and they both are removed from the
- board. The catch is that you can only select tiles which are on the end of
- horizontal rows. Some rows are on top of other rows, but you can match
- tiles on different levels. You select tiles by... Oh, you can figure that
- out. :-)
-
- Less obvious is that selecting a tile a second time deselects that tile.
- Selecting an unplayable tile deselects any selected tile. Selecting another
- playable tile that doesn't match the currently selected one makes this new
- tile the selected tile. (Whew! The words are more confusing that the
- game, believe me.) Selecting no tile (the background) will also deselect
- the selected tile if there is one. If not, it unplays your last move. You
- could back up as far as you like just by clicking on the background, but if
- you do back up you can't really call it a win when all the tiles are gone.
-
- Every board can be solved. Really. The game could live on a hard disk
- with no problems:-) It should get along with other programs quite well.
- And I want to make it clear that I didn't intend to rip off any commercial
- programs. I had the game completed before I knew about any commercial
- offerings for the Amiga. I must admit that it is, in fact, a rip-off of
- the game GunShy for the Mac. My heart sank as I walked into my dealer's
- show room, disk in hand, ready to share my gift with the world, and saw the
- commercial program running on one of the display machines.
-
- But I got over that soon enough. I'm planning a companion program which
- will let you replace any of the pictures you don't like with your favorite
- icon images. And of course, I am open to comments, suggestions, and flames
- at: utoddl@unc.bitnet
- utoddl@ecsvax.uncecs.edu <<--- Not sure about that one,
- I never send myself mail.
- Todd M. Lewis (919) 962-0101
- C.B. #3450, 402 Hanes Hall
- University of N. Carolina
- Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3450
-
- (Modula-2 code for the Menu and Requester came from Richie Bielak's program
- "Trails" on Fred Fish Disk #32. Thanks Richie!
- An early version of Tiles! was included on the October, 1988 JumpDisk.)
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