This an implementation of the classic "Color Lines" puzzle game using Python 3.7 and "pygame" library.

Rules:

• There's a 9x9 tile grid with color balls of 6 different colors on it.
• Player moves the balls one ball at a time.
• If after a move 5 or more neighbouring balls of the same color are aligned horizontally, vertically or diagonally, they are removed, and the player is awarded score points. 5 balls = 5 points, 6 balls = 7 points, 7 balls = 9 points ...
• If no balls are removed after a move, 3 pending balls are added to the field, and 3 more "pending" balls will be shown.
• A player cannot move a ball into a pending ball position or move to a position that cannot be achieved via moving over adjacent empty tiles.

Objective:

• Score as many points as possible before there are no available moves left.

How to Run (Windows 10):

Download a zip archive from the Releases on GitHub

How to run with Python:

1. Install python
2. Install pygame via pip
3. Check out GIT repo
4. py .\game.py

How to build an executable on Windows:

1. Install Visuall C++ Build Tools
2. Install cx_freeze module from https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#cx_freeze
3. Create an environment variables TCL_LIBRARY/TK_LIBRARY and point it to:

set TCL_LIBRARY=C:\Program Files\Python37\tcl\tcl8.6 set TK_LIBRARY=C:\Program Files\Python37\tcl\tk8.6

4. py .\build.py build 4.1) If the game doesn't work, apply a patch for the cx_Freeze, https://github.com/anthony-tuininga/cx_Freeze/pull/395/commits/76542754e01d2d4b21c6744c563dda8d5c72b3b2/

Made by: Dmitry Dzygin