Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection
| Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection | |
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| Genre | Puzzle games collection |
| Latest release | 20240802.1c1899e[1] (Announcement) |
| Release date | October 25th, 2023 |
| Developer | Simon Tatham and others |
| Code license | Expat |
| Media license | Expat |
| P. language | C |
| Library | GTK |
| Contribute | |
| Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. | |
 Debian:
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sgt-puzzles |
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 Flatpak:
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uk.org.greenend.chiark.sgtatham.puzzles |
 FreeBSD:
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sgt-puzzles |
| F-Droid: | name.boyle.chris.sgtpuzzles |
Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection is a collection of multi-platform single-player puzzle games written mostly by Simon Tatham and licensed under the Expat license. Portions of the collection are by Richard Boulton, James Harvey, Mike Pinna, Jonas Kölker, Dariusz Olszewski, Michael Schierl, Lambros Lambrou, Bernd Schmidt, Steffen Bauer, Lennard Sprong and Rogier Goossens.[2]
It is built on top of a special environment, which makes it easy to make new games, like 3D Maze by Edward Macnaghten[3], and port them to new platforms by creating new front-ends.[4] The games have been ported to Java with NestedVM and to JavaScript with asm.js, so they are available as web games on the collection's homepage. They are also available on Android[5] and iThings[6].
Games[edit]
The collection contains several games:
- Black Box (Black Box)
- Bridges (Hashiwokakero)
- Cube
- Dominosa
- Fifteen (15 puzzle)
- Filling (Fillomino)
- Flip (Lights Out)
- Flood
- Galaxies
- Guess (Mastermind)
- Inertia
- Keen (KenKen)
- Light Up
- Loopy (Slitherlink)
- Magnets
- Map (4 coloring problem)
- Mines (a Minesweeper implementation)
- Mosaic
- Net
- Netslide
- Palisade
- Pattern (Nonogram)
- Pearl (Masyu)
- Pegs (Peg solitaire)
- Range
- Rectangles
- Same Game (a SameGame implementation)
- Signpost
- Singles (Hitori)
- Sixteen
- Slant
- Solo (Sudoku-like games)
- Tents (Campsites)
- Towers (Skyscrapers)
- Tracks
- Twiddle
- Undead
- Unequal
- Unruly
- Untangle (Planarity)
References[edit]
- ↑ http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/puzzles.tar.gz (the file name shows the version on download)
- ↑ The "Licence" section of the collection's homepage
- ↑ Edward Macnaghten. A somewhat pleasant experience (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/1463 The page is not longer available, please check the archived version in Internet Archive Wayback Machine.) A somewhat pleasant experience (2006-01-13, accessed on 2014-01-13)
- ↑ https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/
- ↑ http://chris.boyle.name/projects/android-puzzles/
- ↑ http://hewgill.com/puzzles/
External links[edit]
- Home site of Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection