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by hyperlogic 1086 days ago
In 2010 I released an iPhone game that uses hyperbolic geometry in a similar way. It's a match 3 game inspired by the work of M. C. Escher. A few years back I ported it to javascript using emscripten. You can play it for free here.

https://hyperlogic.github.io/circull/circull.html

6 comments

This was really fun to play!

I wish there was a way to request hints on my own time instead of getting the flashing after a few seconds. In my experience the flashing hints were coming too quickly for me to even look through the whole board, let alone choose an optimal switch.

Nevertheless, great game! Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for sharing! I thought that Circull was a game that once existed for iOS and then was lost, did not know about the web version. (Esfera Chess was another iOS game that was non-Euclidean in some sense and is lost.)
This is very fun! Thanks for linking!
Nice.

Maybe you should fix the palette and not have cyan and teal in the same set (for balance you could shift teal in the direction of blue and further).

The principle is similar to that of defining a palette for readability of graphs (we also had interesting submissions on HN on the topic).

Can’t find in App Store :(
This is beautiful!