Last tuesday, Lucas Newman (developer of Delicious Library) and I built the entire game within three days for C-4 Iron Coder and we won 2nd place next to Video Conference for iPhone.
Download link and brief installation instructions is at Lights Off website.
I’ve always loved Lights Out game from Tiger Electronic and iPhone with touch screen couldn’t be any more perfect for Lights Out-type game. This game is freeware and you should use it at your own risk. I’m not going to provide detailed installation instructions here as it’s fairly complex but I will update this post with a link when there is one.
Edit: This instruction is pretty good iPhone Atlas – 5-step process for putting apps on your iPhone
Nice work! Now if we could just get Frenzic on the iPhone :)
ttrying to get back to level 9 after you go to the home screen is a pain though :)
Wow. Simply amazing work, both graphically and… programically? Lovely graphics as usual. All I need now is an iPhone.
Any possibility of getting source code?
Congrats on the win! The graphics are outstanding as usual!
Curious, are all of the levels solveable? Level 8, 12, 14, 16 and more do not seem solveable according to the math that is involved for solving Lights Out game. You can cross reference these findings at http://mat.uniroma2.it/~tauraso/Ja...
If there are solutions, I would love to just see level 8 solved.
But great work. I play with this game more than any other application on the phone. Keep up the great work!
Just out of curiosity, are you or the devs ever going to port this to an actual OS X application? I can imagine it wouldn’t be much to make it with the same interface, just a little menubar with the close, min, max buttons. Alternately a widget would be incredible!
In short, I don’t have an iPhone and would love to play this. :D
Level 8 can NOT be solved. Can you guys please remove the never-to-be-solved-spend-hours-of-frustrated-playing-only-to-get-angry-when-you-find-out-it-has-no-solution levels out of the game?
Just reaffirming Unixed’s suspicion that some levels are not solveable. After spending an hour trying to solve level 8, I gave up and found a solver online:
http://anarkasis.com/rafa/luces/li...
That applet confirms that you cannot solve level 8. The closest I can get is one square in a corner!
Can we get an update that has all solvable boards? :)
8, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22, 25
No, these are not the latest lottery drawing, it’s the levels I’ve found so far, that are unsolvable. Love the game, and wouldn’t mind seeing an update with levels that I can solve ;)
Unixed, don’t give up, 12 and 14 are very much solvable ;)
The puzzles are located in a text file within the game if you want to tweak them. ;)
Awesome, thanks =)
After such widespread publicity, it’s astounding such a basic problem as winnability has been left unresolved. As good as a game may look, one shouldn’t recommend a game that is not even 10% beatable (linearly).
I admire your iPhone development skills, as well as your aesthetics, but to call an unsolvable problem a “puzzle” or “game” is false advertising at best and a frustrating waste of time for those who would really enjoy it the most.
For several years I’ve had a game on my Powerbook G4 that’s very similar to Lights Off. It’s called “Game of Colors”, used to be available on Versiontracker at
http://versiontracker.com/dyn/more...
but as of 2007-09-03 12:30 UT the link there no longer works. The author of Game of Colors is a Venezuelan Professor of Mathematics with home page at
http://mipagina.cantv.net/jesper/
I’ve tried to contact him, but so far have not had any response. Perhaps he did answer me and my spam filter killed his response without my knowing. I’d love to make the game available to others, but it would be better if he could re-activate the link that’s on Versiontracker. I’m still working on it.
I beat level 8 but am stuck on level 14. It is in fact possible to beat level 8 as I did not skip any levels before this.
Yes, level 8 is solvable. I don’t know jack about the math of it or using other java solvers, but I solved 8 after much trial and error.
um, not to brag, but 8,12,14, and 16 are very much solvable
and quite easy too…
just try solving them instead of putting them on a program that does it foe you. It takes the fun out of it, and its not even acurate.
nice, but I just cant solve lvl 9! i solved lvls 1 to 8 no prob, but 9, im stumped it just seems soo hard…
ok dude yall are all dumb, 6 is the only hard level!!
I sorta agree with Kyle Nilson. I am looking forward to one for mac os application and that would be much incredible if there’s a widget of it.
Just wanted to say thanks for creating this brilliant game and the people whining are idiots. All the levels mentioned above are possible. Generally in under 14 moves. Cheers :)
Umm, the only “unsolvable” level for me is 6, I’m having trouble converting that layout into a solvable mid-pattern. Damn!
yes the only level that is even hard for me is level 6. I can beat all 211 of them in about 10 seconds. They are not unsolvable… they are quite easy onvce you figure them out.
I have solved level 8. it is not unsolvable. i will later post a video of level 8 if you do not believe me.
level 6 is solvable with 6 taps.
i solved lev 8 with 12 taps.
Please _do_ post your solution!
since each position needs to be tapped only once and the order is not important (see Wikipedia article), there are 2 to the power of 25 possible was to play this game. I have written a trivial program to tests all those, and still havent found a solution for one of the early levels (6 or 8 I think).
So please post your solution!