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A New Casual Game

by John Kanalakis · 11/03/2007 (10:57 pm) · 3 comments

Introducing Solicheck, a casual solitaire checkers game for Windows. I created this game with Torque Game Builder in about a week. The object of the game is to use your mouse to pick a checker piece and 'jump' diagonally over other checker pieces. You get extra points when you land on a bonus spot. You rack up points as you clear the board and win by exceeding the determined par score.

I made two versions of the game; one with several levels that become increasingly difficult (and changing scenery), and the one available here for download, that randomly generates layouts and calculates par scores.

www.envygames.com/downloads/SolicheckGG.jpg
The game can be downloaded from here. (3 MB Download)

A video of the game can be viewed from here.

Please let me know if you run into any problems. I'm also interested in hearing what you like or don't like about the game. I'm sure there's plenty of room for improvement.

John K.

About the author

John Kanalakis is the owner of EnvyGames, an independent game development studio in Silicon Valley that produces games and tools for Xbox 360, Windows, and the Web.


#1
11/04/2007 (5:09 am)
Now this is code I'd love to take a peek at ... TGB resources are so small. Nice job here!
#2
11/17/2007 (10:10 am)
no other comments eh? subconscious.. share code share code.. :)
#3
11/21/2007 (7:46 pm)
hey cool game John,
I spent some time on it, it's fun-
put it on a cell phone!!
I like the installer and the deployable completeness of it.