gPlanarity 11496 review

gPlanarity is a simple puzzle game involving untangling planar graphs for fun and prizes

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 56K Developer: Monty

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gPlanarity is a simple puzzle game involving untangling planar graphs for fun and prizes. If you tend to get addicted to cute little math puzzles than gPlanarity is a doozy.

gPlanarity is a super-clone of the flash Planarity game written by John Tantalo. The original Planarity ran well in IE and Firefox on other platforms, but was slow and liked to lock up or abort under Linux browsers.

gPlanarity implements gameplay identical to the original Planarity but adds some UI and game extras around the basic game such as multiple board generation algorithms, puzzle boards, complete backing state, group select/drag and so on.

Here are some key features of "gPlanarity":
Expand/shrink
Group select and drag
Board reset
Level selection
Complete backing state
Leave and come back to any number of boards at any time
Multiple level generation algorithms
Puzzles with differing win conditions
Hide/show lines
Intersection highlighting
Undeniable big noodly crunch!

Requirements:
fontconfig
freetype
Xrender
(cairo 1.0 and Gtk+ 2.8 are statically linked in the download binaries)

What's New in This Release:
Bugfix version of gPlanarity;
correct timer resetting on saved boards when reentered from the level menu
correct board generation bug that potentially affected boards with multiple completely seperate graphs; this bug rendered board 69 unsolvable.