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.

StatusReleased
Rating
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AuthorKWAYNE
GenrePuzzle
Tagspetscii

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Sounds like a great way to spend an evening!

You look like the type of person who'd enjoy this jam: WOW JAM

They have a very interesting platform and are even offering prizes xD

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.

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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).