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Connection
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About the game
Connection gives you a grid of tiles marked with four shapes, a cross, a triangle, a square and a circle, and a short sequence of those shapes at the top of the screen. Your job is to find that sequence on the board by dragging through neighbouring tiles in the right order. Get it right and the tiles you used vanish, new ones drop in from above, a new sequence appears and the score goes up.
The twist comes from the theme of js13kGames 2020, "404". Sometimes the sequence simply is not on the board, and then the right answer is the big NOT FOUND button at the bottom. A wrong trace just shakes the tiles, but a countdown ends the game and a wrong NOT FOUND takes two seconds off it, so every round is a quick decision between looking a little harder and declaring the pattern missing.
The levels add one idea at a time: "3 in a row" starts with three-tile sequences, then "Get square", "High five" and "Six pack" ask for longer and trickier shapes. Good scores unlock the next level, the endless Arcade mode and a shelf of trophies.
Federico Tibaldo made Connection for js13kGames 2020, with his own pixel font and sprites.
Playing it here
Click Play and wait a few seconds for the short animated intro, then choose Levels. Only the first level is open at the start; the Trophies screen lists the score that unlocks each of the others. The game saves your best scores, unlocked levels and trophies in your browser, so they are still there next time.
Controls
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| press and drag over the tiles | trace a sequence (each step up, down, left or right) |
| NOT FOUND | declare that the sequence is not on the board |
| click a menu item | choose levels, arcade or trophies |
| drag or mouse wheel on menus | scroll long lists |
A few things worth knowing
Start from the rarest shape. If the sequence contains a shape that appears only once or twice on the board, look there first; it narrows the search much faster.
No diagonals. Each step goes up, down, left or right, and a sequence can be traced from either end, so try reading it backwards too.
Do not be afraid of NOT FOUND. The game is built around it, and spotting an impossible board quickly is as much a skill as tracing a path.
Credits and licence
Connection was created by Federico Tibaldo. The sound effects use the ZzFX Micro generator by Frank Force (MIT). The game is free software under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later; the source code of this build and the licence texts are linked from this page.