Unpuzzle It!

Unpuzzle the craziness and unleash the fun!

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Inspiration

As a freelance developer, I had heard a lot about flutter, but never got to try it out! I thought building a fun game would be the best way to learn flutter. After I read about the puzzle challenge, I had few ideas and hence I decided to participate in the hackathon.

Unpuzzle is to not only solving the puzzle, but find ways to surprise ourselves in the process!

What it does

My game has 3 modes - Simple, Lost of Track and Go Custom. Each is made for a purpose :

  1. Simple - Simple image with known blocks for solving.
  2. Lost of Track - Involves a quest to find the path to help a character find his way to Gold coin.
  3. Go Custom - This is where users can upload their own images and the game generates a puzzle. The grid size is customization too!

There's hidden achievements as well for users to unlock.

Platforms Supported -Android: Tested -Web: Tested -Windows: Tested -iOS: Not Tested (pretty sure it works)

How I built it

I took the reference code as base and understood the code flow first. Then I made a design table of the features the game would provide. Of course, I did make sure its fun to play!

Challenges I ran into

  • First challenge was to learn flutter. After 2-3 days of playing around, I was familiar with the programming language. There were lot of challenges, but most challenging was to auto solve the shuffled puzzle. I had to do a lot of work here. Finally was able to figure it out!

Accomplishments that I am proud of

  1. I am now confident and versatile in flutter app development. In fact, few weeks after I started the hackathon, I even built 2 apps for my personal use.
  2. The game is my biggest accomplishment. Its totally fun to not only play, but also to interact, right from menu screen to scoring.

What I learned

  1. I learnt flutter and I am impressed I have done so much in such less time (I started a month late).
  2. I learnt that flutter is the most easiest and versatile cross-platform out there and anyone can quickly learn and build responsive apps.
  3. Learnt to use photoshop to turn my photos into game backgrounds.

What's next for Unpuzzle It!

  1. I plan to launch a fun multiplayer mode. Usually people skip this, thinking there's not much scope for multiplayer. But during development, I got a really fun idea for multiplayer using XP.
  2. I also hope to win this hackathon.

Demo Link

https://abhinandanbr.github.io/#/

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