Free, Open Source Puzzle Games: Sokoban, Lasertank, Enigma, Frozen Bubble, Rocks'n'diamonds, Heartlight, Pingus, Fish Fillets Ng, Popcorn

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Sokoban, Lasertank, Enigma, Frozen Bubble, Rocks'n'diamonds, Heartlight, Pingus, Fish Fillets Ng, Popcorn, Katomic, the Adventures of Robbo, Kmines. Excerpt: Enigma Enigma is a transport puzzle computer game based on Oxyd, and is released under the GPL . Enigma continues to be very popular as an open source multi-platform derivative of Oxyd now that Oxyd is no longer maintained. The open source Enigma has been praised in reviews. Landscapes usually take the form of logic puzzles, although frequently, dexterity with the pointing device (the only form of input) is also required. The landscapes are generated by scripts in the Lua programming language, making the creation of complicated landscapes relatively easy. A level editor exists, but it is currently not used very much. As well as the 624 standard landscapes designed for it, Enigma also includes 20 tutorial landscapes, 149 landscapes adapted from various Sokoban games, 161 landscapes adapted from the Oxyd games, and 91 landscapes adapted from Oxyd' s predecessor, Esprit . This makes a total of 1045 landscapes. Additionally, Enigma is capable of reading and playing landscapes from the data-files of the original Oxyd games, potentially adding another 389 landscapes to Enigma' s collection. Although some Oxyd -series features are not yet implemented in Enigma, most of the landscapes are fully functional. Enigma does not currently support the popular cooperative two-player network games that were available with some versions of Oxyd . However, most of the two-player landscapes are playable in single-player. Enigma is compiled for Mac OS X, GP2X, Microsoft Windows, and Linux (with packages available for several distributions). Due to the large number of levels and the variety of challenges involved, achieving 100 % level com...

48 pages, Paperback

First published May 7, 2010

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