Color Lines
Color Lines (also called Lines ) is a computer game that was launched in 1992 by the Russian publisher Gamos (Russian Геймос ) on the market. Idea, design and programming of the game submitted by Oleg Demin. For the graphics Igor Iwkin and Gennady Denisov were responsible. In early versions of Color Lines has been named as the author of a certain Olga Demina; but this is just a cover name for the author Oleg Demin, who was busy at that time in the Moscow city administration and - so says the story - could not engage in any outside employment and therefore camouflaged with that name.
Gameplay
The game consists of a playing field with 9 × 9 squares and is played with balls ( or balls ) in seven different colors. When starting five balls are randomly distributed on the field; after each turn another three.
The player's task is to assemble the same colored balls in horizontal, vertical or diagonal rows of at least five balls. A ball is selected by clicking and moving with a click on an empty square there. Between the selected ball and the destination but a path of empty fields must exist.
If the player has made a series of at least five same color balls disappear, and the player receives points. A row of five balls brings 10 points, six balls provide 12, 18 seven, eight and nine 28 balls 42 points. In addition, it can move a further ball without three new balls are distributed in the field. The game ends when all squares are filled with balls.
The aim of the game is to get more points than the "king"; the king is a figure on a column to the left of the field, which either displays the previously achieved maximum score or the starting point number 100 Has the " challenger " more points than the king, he crashes it and is even in the next round to the king.
Lines for Windows ( 1995)
In 1995, the first version for Windows by Igor Nedelko and Andrej Akselrod was developed for the company AbrewSoft as shareware. It was an exact replica of Color Lines, with 256-color graphics and the usual buttons for all functions.
The figures on the pillars, champion and challenger, are still included, but were displaced from their medieval outfit in the modern office environment. The right figure was a little animated, she blinked and then knocked and when by hand.
Subsequent reactions
The gameplay of Color Lines has been implemented over time in a variety of clones under different names. Especially popular are conversions in Adobe Flash and JavaScript for web browsers; but also for PCs, laptops, tablet computers, handheld devices and mobile phones with any kind of operating system, there are numerous transfers.