{"id":35,"date":"2007-11-13T10:42:10","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T09:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimblackler.com\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2007-11-13T13:07:31","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T12:07:31","slug":"grid-rotate-puzzle-flash-cs-actionscript-30-for-flash-player-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimblackler.com\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Grid rotate puzzle (Flash CS \/ActionScript 3.0 for Flash Player 9)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve written <a href=\"http:\/\/jimblackler.com\/TilePuzzle\/\">a simple puzzle game<\/a> based on an idea I\u2019ve been knocking around. The idea is inspired by slide puzzles and the Rubik\u2019s Cube. Also a lesser-known puzzle called the Rubik\u2019s Clock that I loved as a child.<\/p>\n<p>The objective is to return a grid of numbers to its original form by rotating individual 2 x 2 square bocks by 90 degrees. Hard to explain but give it a go, you\u2019ll work it out quickly I\u2019m sure<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimblackler.com\/TilePuzzle\/\"><img align='right' src='http:\/\/jimblackler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/puzzle3.gif' alt='Number puzzle grid' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The grid starts out straight. You can scramble it yourself or hit the \u2018Spin\u2019 button and have it done for you (hit it again to stop the scrambling). You can also experiment with using the slider to create grids of different sizes.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth pointing out something though. When I came up with the idea I thought that it would be about as difficult to complete as a standard slide puzzle. Wrong. It seems very, very difficult. People tend to get very stuck on the last row. In fact, based on a day\u2019s play testing, nobody has yet even completed a 3 x 3 grid.<\/p>\n<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/jimblackler.com\/TilePuzzle\/\">give it a try<\/a>, you could be the first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve written a simple puzzle game based on an idea I\u2019ve been knocking around. The idea is inspired by slide puzzles and the Rubik\u2019s Cube. Also a lesser-known puzzle called the Rubik\u2019s Clock that I loved as a child. The objective is to return a grid of numbers to its original form by rotating individual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimblackler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimblackler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimblackler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimblackler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimblackler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimblackler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimblackler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimblackler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimblackler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}