Re:Show HN: I made a deceptively simple but hard sliding puzzle
by jcfields on Thursday June 02, 2022 @08:21PM
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There’s a Japan-only game for the Sega Game Gear called Kinetic Connection that plays similarly but involves rearranging a scrambled picture rather than moving colored blocks into a pattern.
“Game 3” is the mode that rotates rows and columns like a Rubik’s Cube.
There are probably earlier examples, but that’s the one that I’m familiar with. I imagine a clever person could adapt it into a simple word game as well. Old computer and console games are a gold mine for ideas for simple puzzle games.
https://segaretro.org/Kinetic_Connection
“Game 3” is the mode that rotates rows and columns like a Rubik’s Cube.
There are probably earlier examples, but that’s the one that I’m familiar with. I imagine a clever person could adapt it into a simple word game as well. Old computer and console games are a gold mine for ideas for simple puzzle games.