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...The Open Source pages exist to make this case to the commercial world."    - Introduction to Open Source - www.opensource.org

* Blokish

market download Smooth Drag & Drop user interface.
Blokus is a family game involving four players and a board with 20 x 20 squares. Like chess or checkers, it's a game for which at any time you can see your opponent's pieces.

No ads at all! Once installed, you can play offline.

Each player starts with 21 pieces : 1 monomino, 1 domono, 2 triominos, 5 tetraminos and 12 pentaminos. It may recall you the Tetris polyominos...

"For first round, I must place a piece so that it touches one of the corners of the board"

"Next, a piece must be placed so that it touches a corner of one of my own pieces.
It may touch several corners, but never any side/edge of my pieces!" Look at screenshots or at the video.

The game has a nice and natural User Interface : just Drag & Drop the piece with the finger. Rotate a piece likewise.

You can flip a piece to its mirror position with a long-press gesture.

"If a cannot place any more piece I pass my turn."

You can see opponent's remaining pieces, by pressing corresponding tab.

The end of the game is reached when every player passes.
"My score is : addition of the squares of the pieces I placed".

Refer to 'Menu > Help' inside the app. With several screenshots.

You can safely quit at any time : your current game will be restored on next startup.

You play against the machine. You can configure the level of corresponding Artificial Intelligence : 4 levels. Refer to Menu > Preferences

To play against a friend, you can disable AI. Go to Menu > Preferences. Later use the 4 tabs at the bottom to select next player.

This software is open-source, available at https://github.com/scoutant/blokish. You may reuse the code, conforming to GPLv3 licence.

Similar to Freebloks 3D.

Recent changes:
Added russian translation. Credits to Boris Timofeev.

Content rating: Everyone

Author: scoutant.org
Version: 2.3
Market link: org.scoutant.blokish
Web site: http://scoutant.org



Source code:
Code license:
Market downloads: 50,000-250,000
Market rating: 4.3 / 5.0
Category: Top:/Games/Puzzle


Added: 2012-03-21
Updated: 2015-06-17
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