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Monday, February 27, 2006

Polarium clone in WPF - compendium

A clone of the popular game Polarium is available for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). This currently runs on the WinFX Jan CTP May CTP of WinFX Beta 2 runtime.


It is currently in version 2.2 and includes the following features:
  1. Supports all standard interactions available in NintendoDS
    1. Single click: Move to selected tile
    2. Double click (on current tile): Flip tiles
  2. Ability to load levels in the custom NDS puzzle format. You can simply copy the puzzle code from the Polarium Puzzle Archive and right-click twice on the Polarium title. This will load that puzzle.
  3. Flipping tile colors (White <-> Black)
  4. Cool animations
There are certainly many areas that can be improved/added. If there is enough interest I would be glad to create a GotDotNet workspace.

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Download Source and Binaries.
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Here are all the blog posts detailing the development of this game:
  1. http://pavanpodila.blogspot.com/2006/02/polarium-clone-in-wpf.html
  2. http://pavanpodila.blogspot.com/2006/02/level-loader-for-polarium-clone.html
  3. http://pavanpodila.blogspot.com/2006/02/animations-ready-for-polarium-clone.html
  4. http://pavanpodila.blogspot.com/2006/02/polarium-clone-v10.html
  5. http://pavanpodila.blogspot.com/2006/02/support-for-nintendods-custom-puzzle.html
  6. http://pavanpodila.blogspot.com/2006/02/polarium-cleanups-cool-new-feature.html
  7. http://pavanpodila.blogspot.com/2006/02/flipping-tile-colors.html
[Update] The Polarium clone now works on May CTP of WinFX Beta 2. Enjoy!

posted by Pavan Podila @ 12:44 AM