I’ve been thinking about doing a 3rd book – something like ‘More C Games, design and programming’ which would have three games, each with a design and then implemented with explanations and bits of source code and all on Github.  The first game is possibly going to be a Match Three game.

Match Three games have been around for the best part of a decade and have a basic mechanic of swapping two adjacent pieces to make a line up of three, four or five pieces which get removed.

What makes it more challenging and interesting is the almost limitless number of mechanisms you can build on. For instance when you clear four or five you get special items that when swapped with another special item do something interesting. Or could be you have to get a set of special items and so on.

Or you might have special levels where you have to clear all of one particular shape within a time or Boss levels where the baddy is continually adding hard to remove pieces that clog up the game, or you might have a rotate button that flips the board 90 degrees so you can get rid of hard to remove pieces by having them drop into special buckets beneath the board.

Now I just have to come up with two more games. Suggestions welcomed!