Anyone interested in a Match 3 engine license?

Would anyone be interested in buying a comprehensive match 3 engine that lets you totally customize the levels, tiles, powerups, and just about everything else etc etc. Maybe for $9.99. It would come with an updated version of the ZG Framework.

that is for BlitzMax or Blitz3D? can i see a demo? i mebe interested.

BMax only. The demo won't be ready for a few days. I don't wanna jump the gun and show a sub-standard product.

Could be, be interested to see a demo anyway.

Why not make a randomiser which generates a new match-3 game every 4 seconds. You could write a module that sets up a website for each one and puts it on sale.

You'll make a million.

Then get acquired by Popcap for 10.

Match-3 games are sub-standard by default.
You could do a vast service for mankind by formatting your hard drive ;)

Match-3 engine?

/me shudders

Chroma is just trying to find ways to harvest all the people making match-3s for some money, cause harvesting the people buying the games makes him feel dirty and cheap like a 3 dollar whore.
george george george.. I matched 3 dollars!

what?

DampyS8N: Surely there's no need for insults like that - there's quite a few people here who would probably pay for something like this. Not me, but nevertheless there's probably a market for it.

Well, DampeS8N, at least you aren't pregnant. Your periods would have stopped... :/

As long as M3's are high in the sales charts, there's no reason to look down upon M3's, unless you're some kinda artist who has ideals.. :P

artist with ideals = broke (most of the time) ;-)

I'd rather be broke to be honest.

I'd rather be rich AND have ideals :-) It's just getting there that takes the work, and (for myself) it include a path through commercial conformity first.

An artist with ideals may be broke, but an artist without ideals is broken.

Anyone who claims to choose riches over ideals or ideals over riches isn't an idealist. An idealist chooses both riches and ideals, because to possess both ideals and riches is ideal.

For $10 I'll buy it.

Don't listen to the smack-talkers. My buddy and I considered this EXACT project about two months ago but we are busy with a game we're working on, so we let it slide.

I definitely want to see your demo.

SpaceAce

I'd buy it. :) $10 is minor to gain the knowledge of Match 3 Games making. :)

I'd personally like to churn out Match 3's, build a collection of them and if any income is made from them put it back in to learning or buying media to make the next set of match 3's even better. :)

Cool. Well here's the current build. Matching seems to be working flawlessly, tiles falling with gravity, tile swapping. There is no illegal move code in there yet so you can move where ever you want to atm.

http://www.zamagames.com/downloads/M3_Engine.zip

Yeah, because Match 3 games are stupidly difficult to write, and there's so much cool stuff you can get for 10 bucks, so I'm sure that's his motivation. Tool.

Anyway. No I wouldn't be interested in buying your Match 3 engine, but I think you should sell it just the same. I think Johns "Match 3" maker idea, while I'm fairly certain wasn't in all seriousness, is the worst idea ever. That would be "million dollar pixels", and look what that got him? 1 million dollars. Not too shabby for such a bad idea, huh?

What are the chances of revising this 'down' so to speak so that it would be compatable with Blitz3d? I'd be interested if I could use it in B3d.

Demo ain't work. Window pop's up for a second and then quits.

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Roman

@Gfk...... periods stopping LOL. (;-)

Flame, my plan was to flood the market with an infinite number of the things to hopefully kill them off for good.

John, I thought as much. However if the market isn't currently oversaturated as it is, I don#t know what amount of Match 3 games will do it.

Personally I hope Puzzle Quest does it, because all other Match 3 games are jokes by comparison.

Odd, lemme try to dl it on my other comp and see if it works.

It works fine on my wife's comp. Is anyone else having a problem like Anawiki's?

No, it seems to work fine here.

There was a whole spoof thread a while ago on Indiegamer with a match-3 maker it was quite funny. I was the first to say "Nah, common this is fake", but it was very well done.

Ah the problem might be that I default to 85 hertz refresh while I'm coding. I'll fix and re-upload in a few.

Edit: GA, it's not a match-3 maker. It's just a customizable engine/source code. There's no editor.

Ok it should be fixed. Give the zip another download and lemme know if it works.

www.zamagames.com/downloads/M3_Engine.zip

It works now. To much random matches, though the rest is fine.

When you expect to finish this?

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Roman

Heh, I was thinking of doing this last week - I've got my own match 3 engine pretty much working...

Not sure if I could cope with selling code I've written personally - I'm not the neatest coder ^_^

Right, there's only 4 tiles in the example so it finds a lot of continuous matches. I'm shooting for within two weeks. Say around June 8th or so.

Just got around to trying this.

I found that any time I make a match, I have to sit for ages watching the tiles fall down automatically matching themselves.

Perhaps need to add code in to analyse whats already on the screen, and populate the blank spaces with tiles that are not going to make match3's with what's already there.

I was looking at other match 3s and when matches are being made it will let you select a tile but not slide any. Plus it's making a bunch of initial matches automatically atm because there's only 4 different tiles onscreen. Say with 5-6 or more different tiles it's much better.

I'll tweak it again and repost soon.

You're looking at bad Match 3's then. The good ones let you carry on playing.

EDIT: Actually I'm surprised. I only had a quick play, but I thought yours let me carry on playing too. I guess I wasn't trying hard enough.

Yep, I thought that I can swap during matches too... it's a must feature - though can be customizable (so you can turn it off if you don't like it as a programmer).

I agree. I mentioned this in the other match-3 thread recently. Without this feature, it will stink.

It already has that feature although it still needs a bit of tweaking. Mostly tile swapping under certain conditions to prevent screwy moves etc.

Also, you can activate all 6 tiles by altering the "1.puz" file. Open it in notepad and change line 2 to read 012345 .

I'm still on schedule for the 8th. I added another style of matching that is popular. It has the traditional match 3 gameplay plus a clicking version where you just click clusters of 3 or more adjacent tiles. Here's title screenie:

Everything is still going well. I created quite a few bugs when I switched over to using the array for 99% of the tile management...but at least it's a huge speed increase. I was gonna post a new alpha test but there's just too many noticeable bugs I have to squash first.

I set up a forum, shareit account, and started working on the docs too btw. Next is the web page and feature list and of course finishing off the source.

get the demo and the source ready first, then work on the webpage.

Heya Roman, yep that's what I'm working on right now. Source and demo first.

I wrote my own match three engine in the last two days or so, just as an experiment. Honestly can't see myself continuing with it, as I'm bored to tears with it already.

Think I'll take a gamble on something a little..... different.

Can I buy the source off you, GFK? I'd rather buy it from you as I know it'll be solid.

Nah its not for sale. I'll just sit on it til later. :)

Match-4? :o)

Any news on this? I am VERY keen to get this, will pay more than your suggested $10. Please get in touch so we can sort something out!

Write your own, its easy.

I've released the full source code to my Holiday Swapz festive match-3 game http://www.syntaxbomb.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2064

It's not perfect, but it's a start :) - If you don't mind old fashioned brute force procedural / array stuff :p. I learnt a huge amount writing it and it'd be much prettier code wise if I did it now.

Willmorton, Chroma released the source code ages ago for this:-

http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/posts.php?topic=70908#792738

Steve.

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Cheers Mystik :)