A downloadable game for Windows

This is my contribution for GAME OFF 2018

The theme was "Hybrid" My game is a Hybrid of a SOKOBAN like game, and a match three game, one of those where putting together three things of the same type gives you points and an upgraded thing. The "things" here are referred to as "boxes", and since I did the graphics by myself they are represented by wonderful colored squares.

The top level box has a shape that vaguely reminds that of a companion cube because, why not? These boxes can be moved, but cannot be matched together (who wants to lose one of those?).

Another square, with a smiling face on it, is the player. There are four different game modes: 

  1. Normal: It starts slowly, more boxes appear every few seconds. Put three boxes of the same color close to each other and give them a little push to match them, get points and a higher level box. When points grow, the game gets faster and boxes appear quickly. The objective of this game mode is to get as many points as possible. The game ends when the screen is filled.
  2. Crazy: just like normal, but faster.
  3. Peaceful: The pace of the game does not change during the game. Objective: get as many companion boxes as you can.
  4. Race: make one companion box as fast as you can. 

 This is my first game, and my first attempt to write such a big piece of code. I hope you will enjoy it, I do!

In fact, this made it harder in the last days, when the game was almost complete, I was playing instead of writing code...

Download

Download
Box_Match.zip 8 MB
Download
Box_match_Source.zip 59 kB

Install instructions

If you want the source code, the pyhton 3 code and the data files (pictures and highscores) are in the source code zip. You need the pygame module for python 3 (I used 3.7).

If you just want an executable the other zip file has the data folder and a .exe.

I tried it on windows and the executable is made for windows, but with the source code it should work anywhere with python 3.

Please write me if you have troubles I could not test this so much so there might be problems and I'll be happy to try to solve them.

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