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27 points by himmelattack ↗ HN
The idea for this pixel art puzzle game came from playing Triominos, and wondering what would happen if you replaced numbers with colors. A few mutations later, and it became a mobile game where you click a piece to turn it in place, to recreate pixel art.

I built the basic idea in just over an hour on Twitch.

Dev-wise, I used a homebrew Typescript game engine I created, called Booyah (https://github.com/play-curious/booyah). The graphics are all rendered using the awesome library PixiJS.

What do you think?

13 comments

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antoineMoPa
That's cute and relaxing! Love the animations when I finish a puzzle.
himmelattack
Thanks! Those are thanks to my art director, he does amazing work
cloudking
Neat animations and sound effects has a nice video game feel. Next feature should scramble the tiles and let you drag them back to place in addition to rotating, make it more challenging.
himmelattack
Oooh that is a good idea. I should try that
cloudking
Yeah I think it's just too easy! After you do that, wrap it up into a native mobile app wrapper and put it on the app and play store. I think you would have greater success marketing there.
ofrzeta
The puzzle pixel aesthetic reminds me of eBoy FixPix.
himmelattack
I didn’t know that game. That’s a cool concept!
dgreensp
Tapping would be much more satisfying if it didn’t take so long for a tile to get bigger and then start turning. Maybe it could smoothly get bigger and smaller and turn in one motion.
iamlolz
This is great, well done. I'd love to be able to disable the hints (maybe I missed the setting)