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.
Solitaire Sweeper – Release 1
Download
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 )
