Circuits 1.0.4

Circuits is a fun arcade and logic game created in Python and PyGame. There are three different gameplay mode, all of which require different tactics, there are also eleven awards the player can earn for completing different tasks.

Those range from the very easy (make more than 500 points) to the incredibly difficult (”make more than 2000 points” or “make more than 600 points while using less than 3 seconds per tile”).

Upon the start of a new game,  the screen is filled with empty tiles. The next tile the player must place is shown in the middle of status bar. The player can rotate it via the trackball (left/right movements) or by pressing the arrows on the touchscreen beside the tile display.

Left of the tile display is the score, right are a timer, showing how much time the player has left to make his move, and a number of lives.

Once the tile has been rotated to the player’s satisfaction, he can select where to put it by touching the playfield, and a new tile to be placed appears.

If the timer runs out before the player places his tile, he loses a life, but get (hopefully) a different tile. At the start of the game, the timer takes ten seconds to run out while playing on easy mode. 

Every 100 points, a heartbeat can be heard, signifying that the timer was shortened by half a second (down to two seconds). Every 1000 points, the player receives an extra life (but he can never have more than three lives).

Once in a while, bonus fields appear which the player can take by placing the next tile on top of them. There can never be two bonus fields available at the same time, and they will always appear in empty fields, which, incidentally, means that it might become a curse instead of a blessing when your screen is nearly full and a bomb appear exactly at the wrong place.
 

Additionally to the standard no-limits gameplay, you can choose to play in “Jump Mode” and a “Timed” mode.

In “Jump”  the game stops when your score exceeds 200 points, and only the points over 200 are coutned. The best tactic is to build up until you get (in a perfect world) 199 points, and then try to build the biggest most complex circuit you can, using as much crosses and T-sections as you can get.

“Timed” is limited to ten minutes. A bar will appear on the right side of the screen and will shrink slowly to show you the time remaining. I couldn’t find any tactic that is failsafe in that mode. It really depends on what kind of tiles you get.

Each of the game mode has a separate Highscore, which can be seen scrolling in the back of the main menu. use the trackball to change the opacity, speed and direction of the highscore display.

Requirements:

· Python
· Pygame