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Another word solitaire game appears. After Word Solitaire I was kinda curious as to how the game would play with an inverted setup, so I implemented a small prototype. It’s a little easier and thus might be a good “tutorial” game for Word Solitaire.

The real reason for working on this game was not the game (although I feel the game is just fine), but I was more curious about working on the tech. I got a little curious as to what could be done with Emscripten, which allows for C++ to be compiled into WebAssembly. This involved porting a bunch of old code to use SDL2 and Emscripten. The process was fairly straight forward. I’ll probably end up using this tech to make some new games. So you can try playing the game in your browser here.

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Word Pyramid – Release 1

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Windows: WordPyramid.zip (4.3 Mb) (Release 1)

Instructions
Word game + Solitaire. You need to clear the board by doing 5 letter words.

• A-Z = To form words
• CTRL+Z = UNDO
• CTRL+Y = REDO
• RETURN = Input word
• BACKSPACE = Erase letter

Credits
Game Design & Code: Petri Purho ( petri.purho (at) gmail.com )

I made more solitaire games!

My spouse enjoys Spider Solitaire, Wordle and Dark Souls. So I made the Dark Souls of solitaire word games. It’s been a big hit in our household.

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Word Solitaire – Release 1

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Windows: WordSolitaire.zip (0.1 Mb) (Release 1)

Instructions
Word game + Solitaire. You need to clear the board by doing 5 letter words.

• A-Z = To form words
• CTRL+Z = UNDO
• CTRL+Y = REDO
• RETURN = Input word
• BACKSPACE = Erase letter

Credits
Game Design & Code: Petri Purho ( petri.purho (at) gmail.com )
Playtesting: Anna Zajączkowska

The pleasures of growing old: one gets to make minesweeper games without shame.

I made a small (and unpolished) Minesweeper variant. The game could be polished to make it more user friendly, but also I don’t know if I want to put too much more time into it. I was inspired by some of the Minesweepers Hempuli did.

Original idea was to make it work with a full deck of cards. Unfortunately 4 suits seemed like too much, so I dropped one. It was also an interesting experience to play around with the “single wrong click and you die” -mechanic. It seems somewhat under utilized way of designing puzzle games, cause usually as a designer you want the game to be forgiving.

 

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Solitaire Sweeper – Release 1

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Windows: SolitaireSweeper.zip (0.1 Mb) (Release 1)

Instructions
Minesweeper meets solitaire.

Your goal is to reveal all the cards without hitting any of the mines.

• Click on space to reveal it
• Right click to mark a mine

If you hit a mine, it’s game over.

If the card flashes, it means there’s a mine next to it in one of 8 neighboring spaces.

The number under the card tells you how many cards of the same suit are around that card. Max 8, min 0.

There are 3 suits (hearts, diamonds, clubs) and 13 cards each.

The orthogonal spaces next to a mine are always safe. I.e. Mines may NOT be next to each other horizontally nor vertically.

Credits
Game Design & Code: Petri Purho ( petri.purho (at) gmail.com )