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Show HN: A pixel art puzzle game for mobile using PixiJS (pixel-puzzler.playcurious.games)
27 points by himmelattack 1122 days ago
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). The graphics are all rendered using the awesome library PixiJS.

What do you think?

5 comments

Tapping 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.
Neat 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.
Oooh that is a good idea. I should try that
Yeah 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.
The android version is done already! Though still in beta…

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=games.playcuri...

Nice, is it using a WebView? How did you build it?
Yup, 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.
This is great, well done. I'd love to be able to disable the hints (maybe I missed the setting)
Ok good idea !
That's cute and relaxing! Love the animations when I finish a puzzle.
Thanks! Those are thanks to my art director, he does amazing work
The puzzle pixel aesthetic reminds me of eBoy FixPix.
I didn’t know that game. That’s a cool concept!