Hello, this is my first Pico-8 cartridge.
It's a fun and addictive puzzle game. To play, you swap tiles to create combinations (3 or more tiles with same value, horizontally or vertically). When a combination is created, the combination collapses into one tile, and the tile value is multiplied by a power of two, greater with the more tiles there are in the combination.
Beware: if you like puzzle games, you could spend hours playing this one (I did ;-)
This a Pico-8 rendition of Exponentile by Mike Bellika, made with his permission.
https://www.bellika.dk/exponentile
You can check out more of my games here:
https://davidprograma.itch.io/
@Heracleum Great score! Luckily I got a score overflow when testing and had to fix it ;-)
@tmskna Great Score! I have played quite a lot and never saw what you describe. What happened next? Did the blank space get filled with fallen tiles? I would like to reproduce the issue to fix it... Also, while tiles are swapped (or combining, or falling) in theory the cursor is disabled and you cannot move it... I know it probably happened too fast, but if you remember any more details, I will thank you :-)
If I hit the arrow keys repeatedly to move and also hit the swap button at the same time, there is a reasonable chance of reproducing the phenomenon of two tiles disappearing without swapping occurring (perhaps on tiles that cannot be swapped). (This rarely happens in normal play.)
The vanished tile remains vanished until the next successful swap of another tile. At the next successful swap, the vanished tile will be replaced by a tile falling from above, just like a normal empty tile location, and the game returns to normal play.
@tmskna Fixed! It was a incorrect state management issue. If swap button was released on the same frame as the swap operation was initiated, then the state was set to INIT instead of SWAP which is the correct state.
Thanks your precise and detailed report, it has been very helpful in pinpointing the issue.
Super addicting! I'm not drawn to Match-3 games, but for some reason I can't stop playing games that have the 2048/Threes mechanic of merging tiles, so this is a fun mix of both.
So I had to go for your best score.
Still going too. I'm really glad you included a way to resume where you left off.
(Edit)
OK here's my final high score where I lost it.
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