2048

HISTORY

• 2048 is a single-player sliding tile puzzle video game written by Italian web developer Gabriele Cirulli and published on GitHub.
• The objective of the game is to slide numbered tiles on a grid to combine them to create a tile with the number 2048.
• Nineteen-year-old Gabriele Cirulli created the game in a single weekend as a test to see if he could program a game from scratch

HOW IT LOOKS!

KEY CONTROL use arrow keys for tile movements

2048 Mechanics

• 2048 is played on a plain 4×4 grid, with numbered tiles that slide when a player moves them using the four arrow keys.
• The game begins with two tiles already in the grid, having a value of either 2 or 4.
• After each turn, another tile (either 2 or 4) appears in a random empty space.
  • Tiles with a value of 2 appear 90% of the time.
  • Tiles with a value of 4 appear 10% of the time.
• Tiles slide as far as possible in the chosen direction until stopped by either another tile or the edge of the grid.
• If two tiles of the same number collide while moving, they merge into a single tile with the sum of their values.
• The resulting merged tile cannot merge again in the same move.
• Special merge behavior:
  • If three consecutive tiles of the same value slide together, only the two farthest along the direction of motion will merge.
  • If all four spaces in a row or column have the same value, a parallel move will combine the first two and the last two.
• A scoreboard in the upper-right keeps track of the player's score:
  • The score starts at zero.
  • The score increases whenever tiles combine, by the value of the new tile.
• The game is won when a tile with a value of 2048 appears.
• Players can continue playing to reach higher scores beyond 2048.
• The game ends when the player has no legal moves (no empty spaces and no adjacent tiles with the same value).
• The largest possible tile is 131,072.

WHY THIS REPO?

• I wnated to recreate what Gabriele Cirulli over a week.
• I love to develop
• I wnated to revise my java skills and also learn more about jar creation and usage
• I love to solve problems

REPO TREE

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├── PROTOTYPE IN JAVA
│   ├── 2048Game.jar
│   ├── GUI2048.java
│   ├── Game2048.java
│   ├── GameLogic.java
│   ├── JAR_MAKE.md
│   ├── MANIFEST.MF
│   ├── Tile.java
│   └── out
│       ├── GUI2048$1.class
│       ├── GUI2048.class
│       ├── Game2048.class
│       ├── GameLogic.class
│       ├── Tile.class
│       └── production
│           └── PROTOTYPE IN JAVA
│               ├── 2048Game.jar
│               ├── GUI2048$1.class
│               ├── GUI2048.class
│               ├── Game2048.class
│               ├── GameLogic.class
│               ├── JAR_MAKE.md
│               ├── MANIFEST.MF
│               └── Tile.class
└── THEORY
    └── 2048_Theory.pdf

• THEORY - It describes game play and detailed math veiew on 2048 game.
• PROTOTYPE IN JAVA - this is the dir where main code logic is written
  • Game2048.java it is just a starter program
  • GUI2048.java it is the starting point of GUI and where all GUI handling is done with event loop mechanism
  • GameLogic.java it contains the game logic,tile generations and game play
  • MANIFEST.MF helps creating jar

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