UfoTofU (Commodore Plus/4 & C64)
A downloadable game
This is a Commodore Plus/4 variant of a PICO-8 game made by Albey Amakiir in 2016, which was then ported to Android and later had a sequel called UfoTofU:HEX.
The object of this game is to snake around on a 7x7 board filled with colorful symbols, trying to build up a palindrome pattern, the longer the better. Every turn, the length of each palindrome found is added to the final score. The player has to be careful not to accidentally find a short pattern.
There are three WARP moves available each game, which can be used either by pressing or via the in-game menu accessible by pressing . WARP gets the player to the centre of the board whenever their starting position isn't so promising.
There are two game modes: SHORT and LONG, meaning the game can be played through either 20 or 50 turns. Game modes come with their respective recording of high-scores.
UfoTofU is controlled entirely with joystick in Port 1.
Update: There is now a C64 version downloadable as well. Colors and sounds are different, and the game is controlled with Joystick port 2.
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Thanks for this, good puzzle game. Short ones are easy to find, but longer palindromes require more searching. I added it to my new video with other recently released games. Hope you like it.
Simple to learn, hard to master. Thanks a lot for this game.
Nice game!
I only just found this (I don't use twitter any more, so didn't see the notif). I'm amazed anyone would port any of my games. XD
I couldn't get it to run on the retroarch emulator, but from the screenshots, it looks very accurate. Goes to show how ports on older-style consoles would look vastly different where today they can look near identical. Wild and fascinating.
Well, if the concept is simple but captivating, there's no reason for it not to exist on a 40+ years old microcomputer. It was also fun to code.
You can play it online here. Gameplay is a bit different because I wasn't able to implement falling tiles without sacrificing speed significantly (it's doable in ASM but that's too difficult for me).