A Sokoban clone for the Arduboy. The game currently has 330 Levels. Because there are so many levels, none of the levels are locked.
Warning - This game saves your best score for every level. Because of this, it uses most of the EEPROM memory. This means it will likely overwrite data stored by any other game. If you switch games often and don't want to lose your saved progress, back up your EEPROM.
Intro Screen
Screenshot
The objective of the game is to move the man, pushing all of the boxes onto the goal squares. You can only push the boxes, you cannot pull them and you can only push one box at a time. The game keeps track of the number of moves you've made and saves your best scores (lowest number of moves) for each level.
| A | Opens the currently selected level |
| B | Opens the settings screen |
| UP | Selects the previous level |
| DOWN | Selects the next level |
| LEFT | Selects the previous unsolved level |
| RIGHT | Selects the next unsolved level |
| A | Undo one move. Hold for 5 sec to reset level |
| B | Returns to the Intro screen |
| UP | Moves the player up |
| DOWN | Moves the player down |
| LEFT | Moves the player left |
| RIGHT | Moves the player right |
| A | Opens the next level |
| B | Returns to the Intro screen |
| A | Selects the current setting |
| B | Returns to the Intro screen |
| UP | Moves to the previous setting |
| DOWN | Moves to the next setting |
Our trusty player, ready and willing to push boxes around for a living!
These are the objective, push these onto the goals.
This is where you want to push the boxes to.
This is the objective of the game, move boxes onto the goals in the least moves possible.
You can't move here...
This .NET Core program takes levels in a simple TXT format and converts them
to C code to add into the levels.h file. The level files are in the Assets\Levels
directory.
This program looks at each level and skips levels that are bigger than 16x8 squares. If a level is taller than it is wide, it rotates the level to fit better on the Arduboy screen. It then centers the level if it is smaller than 16x8.
Lastly, it compresses the levels using a simple run length encoding (RLE) format inspired by the the Sokoban XSB format, but modified to take fewer bytes of memory on the Arduboy. As of this writing, I've managed to load 295 levels and use 89% of memory. I will probably want to reduce that to around 255 levels to make room for more bitmaps.
You must have .NET Core 2.1 installed. The utility is run with a command like the following;
dotnet run -- 'C:\src\Arduino\Arduboy\Arduban\Assets\Levels\Microban.txt' 'C:\src\Arduino\Arduboy\Arduban\Assets\Levels\Microban II.txt' 'C:\src\Arduino\Arduboy\Arduban\Assets\Levels\Microban III.txt' 'C:\src\Arduino\Arduboy\Arduban\Assets\Levels\Microban IV.txt' 'C:\src\Arduino\Arduboy\Arduban\Assets\Levels\Sasquatch.txt' 'C:\src\Arduino\Arduboy\Arduban\Assets\Levels\Sasquatch II.txt' 'C:\src\Arduino\Arduboy\Arduban\Assets\Levels\Sasquatch III.txt' 'C:\src\Arduino\Arduboy\Arduban\Assets\Levels\Sasquatch IV.txt' 'C:\src\Arduino\Arduboy\Arduban\Assets\Levels\Sasquatch V.txt' 'C:\src\Arduino\Arduboy\Arduban\Assets\Levels\Sasquatch VI.txt' 'C:\src\Arduino\Arduboy\Arduban\Assets\Levels\Sasquatch VII.txt' 'C:\src\Arduino\Arduboy\Arduban\Assets\Levels\Sasquatch VIII.txt' 'C:\src\Arduino\Arduboy\Arduban\Assets\Levels\Sasquatch IX.txt' 'C:\src\Arduino\Arduboy\Arduban\Assets\Levels\Sasquatch X.txt' 'C:\src\Arduino\Arduboy\Arduban\Assets\Levels\Sasquatch XI.txt' 'C:\src\Arduino\Arduboy\Arduban\Assets\Levels\YoshioMurase.txt' > C:\src\Arduino\Arduboy\Arduban\Arduban\levels.h
To make this easier, running the batch file GenerateLevels.cmd will regenerate
the levels.
The game uses levels created by David W. Skinner and Yoshio Murase. This game makes use of the 4x6 Font by Filmote which is under the BSD-3 license. This game is under the MIT License.
Thanks to @Pharap and @Mr.Blinky from the Arduboy Community for memory reduction ideas and help.