Stratagem: A Nonlinear Match-3 Game

Sat, 31 Aug 2024 03:06:27 UTC

Stratagem v0.5.0

by vm70

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Stratagem is a match-3 game: its objective is to get as many points as possible by swapping adjacent gems to clear touching groups on the grid. Spend your chances to make wrong non-matching moves wisely; once you run out, it's game over!

Changelog

v0.5.0

Bit-shift scores down by 16 to increase maximum score value
Let the player gain 1 chance per level

v0.4.1

Hotfix: reset player combo when leveling up

v0.4.0

Add animations in between game states
Add mouse controls
Add better instructions for incrementing release versions
Split cubic easing into its own function
Fix UI nitpicks
Move "level-up" logic elsewhere from idle game state
Simplify particle animations by using quadratic ease-out

v0.3.1

Hotfix: update label & bump version number

v0.3.0

Player can now move the cursor during gem-matching combos (#32)
Left-pad score in HUD (#26)
Fix #34 by separating functions into files (#35)
Use off-screen printing to calculate text width (#33)
Use spr instead of sspr for drawing gem grid (#28)
New animations leveling up, swapping gems, & clearing matches (#14)
Nerfed overpowered scoring rules (#27)

v0.2.0

Fix #24: rearrange state transitions to act like other Match-3s
Fix #20: add menu option for resetting leaderboard
Gem resprite by squaremango
Fix #18: Bring back pico-tool & update cart building scripts
Fix #12: add credits screen

View its source code here: https://github.com/vm70/stratagem

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