rantaiwarna is a tile-matching puzzle game which is also known under the names "Chain Shot!" or "SameGame". It is played on a rectangular board which is initially filled with elements of several different colors. Two or more adjacent elements of the same color may be eliminated, the score resulting from the elimination of elements depends on the number of elements eliminated at once. The goal of the game is to eliminate as many elements as possible until there are no more adjacent elements of the same color left or the board is completely cleared. Vertical gaps resulting from the elimination of elements are filled by sliding down elements from above the gap, column gaps are filled by sliding columns on the right side of the column gap to the left.
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Source Code Repository
The current development version is available from the source code repository.
News
2014-10-24: rantaiwarna 2
- Fix the logic checking whether a generated board is playable
- Fix status type
- Remove erroneously added markup
2014-03-15: rantaiwarna 1
- Initial revision
Documentation
Manual Pages
Build Instructions
rantaiwarna requires a POSIX:2004 compatible operating system, it has been tested to work on Linux distributions, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris and Illumos-derived distributions, and UnixWare. The following tools and shared libraries are required to build rantaiwarna:
- GNU make >= 3.81
- GNU or BSD install
- an implementation of the curses library compatible with X/Open CURSES Issue 4 (rantaiwarna can take advantage of advanced features of recent ncurses versions, in particular mouse support, but it also works with the native curses implementations of at least Solaris, NetBSD, and UnixWare)
Rebuilding the man pages additionally requires the xsltproc tool from libxml2.
Before building rantaiwarna check the commented macros in the Makefile for any macros you may need to override depending on the used toolchain and operating system.
By default, all files will be installed under the "/usr/local" directory, a
different installation path prefix can be set via the prefix macro. In
addition, a second path prefix can be specified via the DESTDIR macro which
will be prepended to any path, incuding the prefix macro path prefix. In
contrast to prefix, the path specified via the DESTDIR macro will only be
prepended to paths during installation and not be used for constructing
internal paths.
The following instructions assume that make is GNU make, on some platforms
it may be installed under a different name or a non-default path. In order to
start the build process run make all. After a successful build, run make
install to install the program, any associated data files and the
documentation.
Previously built binaries, object files, generated data files and
documentation can be removed by running make clean, any additional,
generated files which are not removed by the clean target can be removed by
running make clobber.
Contact
Please send any feedback, translations or bug reports via email to guido+rantaiwarna@berhoerster.name.
Bug Reports
When sending bug reports, please always mention the exact version of rantaiwarna with which the issue occurs as well as the version of the operating system you are using and make sure that you provide sufficient information to reproduce the issue and include any input, output, any error messages.
In case of build issues, please also specify the implementations and versions of the tools and shared libraries used to build the program, in particular the compiler.
In case of crashes, please generate a stack trace with a suitable debugger such as gdb, lldb, dbx, or debug after a crash has occurred either by examining the resulting core file or by running the program from the debugger and attach it to the bug report. In order to generate a meaningful stack trace the program as well as any dynamically linked libraries need to be built with debugging information, see the documentation of the used compiler for the required compiler flags. If any of the dynamically linked shared libraries do not contain debugging information, please either install debugging information for these libraries using mechanisms provided by your operating system or rebuild the libraries accordingly. Please refer to the documentation of the debugger for detailed instructions on generating backtraces.
License
Except otherwise noted, all files are Copyright (C) 2014 Guido Berhoerster and distributed under the following license terms:
Copyright (C) 2014 Guido Berhoerster guido+rantaiwarna@berhoerster.name
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.