Flipside

What is Slide N Stack?

Its a connect 4 game where you can shift the gravity of the board with a swipe.

Challenges I ran into

One of the main difficulties was showing the board switch on screen as an animation. The data for the board was originally an array of piece colors, but eventually I was forced to make in an array of SKSpriteNodes in order to make the animation process smooth. The second difficulty was detecting diagonal connect (x). It sounds easy, but detecting a diagonal connect 4 requires iterating through an array diagonally in order to count .

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I am proud of how smooth it looks and plays.

What I learned

I have learned to save the easy stuff for last in a hackathon. As it approached 3 o'clock, I lost energy and was no longer able to think as well dimensionally. As a result, I spent 1.5 hours trying to figure out the diagonal iteration because I couldn't wrap my head around it as well.

What's next for Flipside

I actually play to submit this app to the store ASP. Its ready for it.

Built With

• ios
• sprite-kit
• swift