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Tiny Flipon 🚀

An open-source minimalist but playable version of Flipon, my juicy fast-paced match-3 game.

Get the original game on:

• PC
• Nintendo Switch
• Android
• iOS

The game was made by me (dev, project manager, release), Aurélien Regard (2D art), Yoann Bazoge (UI/UX), Swann Ménage (sound design) and Zander Noriega (music).

What is Tiny Flipon

Tiny Flipon is a playable Unity project containing the core gameplay of Flipon. Most of the source code is a direct copy of what is in the complete game.

What is included?

• ✅ Core logic: Grid of blocks, move horizontally, combo, chain
• ✅ Unity project
• ✅ Objectives
• ✅ Local multiplayer logic
• ✅ "AI"
• ✅ Touch controls
• ✅ Dynamic UI and screen split
• ✅ Unit tests for gameplay

What is not included?

• ❌ Assets (no sprites, no backgrounds, no sounds, no FXs) - no copyrighted files!
• ❌ Third-party premium plugins (Odin Inspector, InControl, etc)
• ❌ Audio
• ❌ Gamepad support
• ❌ Menus, UI
• ❌ Dialog system
• ❌ i18n and texts
• ❌ Custom editor tools
• ❌ Console and mobile ports

Code Architecture & quality

THIS IS A FAR FROM PERFECT CODEBASE and it doesn't matter. I'm not releasing it because I want to show my C# skill, instead I want to show what a released game looks like inside: complex, some dead code (but some dead code is link to the "tiny" part), lots of code that could be refactored, scrap from previous projects...

Now, with Flipon I wanted to avoid using Unity's scene as much as possible except for the UI. That's why the Game scene doesn't display anything when not running: everything is created on Play.

I also wanted to have a testable independant C# project for the Core. That's why you have Block (core) and BlockScript (Unity MonoBehaviour). Turns out it wasn't a great idea, but I did manage to have Unit tests for most of that part. Also it could be reused in ahything else (ML, Flipon 99 players online, whatever).

BUT in the end a lot of game logic also happen in PonGameScript and GridScript (like chain detection), so it is far from perfect.

How to run

Open the project in Unity (2019.4.0f18).

Open the Game scene.

Play. It should run.

Now you can tweak the GAME SETTINGS GameObject to change players, objectives, grid size, speed, etc.

Question? Join the discord

Join the official Flipon discord if you have any question about the game or the code, it's your best chance to get a quick answer.

Contributing

The gameplay code is this repository is the same than in the game. If you want to make a significant modification or addition, I may or may not add it in the final game. If so, I'll indeed properly credits your work.

There's a .DotSettings file for Rider/Omnisharp if you want to follow the coding style of the prokject.

Note: I use as much Gitmoji as possible my commit messages.