May 31st, 2014
If you have not heard of it, 2048 is a game, free and open sourced, that is highly addictive. I have spent untold number of hours on it. Last night, I achieved the goal of creating the 4096 tile. Now, I can die in peace.
To play the game, you move every tiles on a 4-by-4 matrix in one of the four directions: up, down, right, or left. As you do so, if there are two adjacent tiles with the same number on them, they will merge into a single tile of the combined value. For example, a “2” tile and another “2” will become a single “4” tile. The tile values gradually increase in binary ladder and the game is won when you have made a “2048” tile.
But winning is not the end of the game. You may continue and try to make the elusive 4096 tile, or even a higher value one (that I have not heard anyone achieving). Now that I have made 4096, I reflect the reasons the game was so addictive.
- It is easy to learn. In fact, there is nothing to it.
- It appears to be easy to win, almost like tic-ta-toe, but then you realize it is harder than it appears.
- To make 1024 is relatively easy and that gives the illusion of 2048 is not that hard. Simply put, it gives you achievable successes along the way, luring you with many small rewards.
- Then, once you have won it. It let you keep going. You know think you can step up to an even higher achievement
Do you play this game? Have you done 4096? Have you done better than that? Leave me a comment.