Pixel Transform is a puzzle game inspired by bitmap pattern matching concepts.
Replace specific patterns in a target matrix to match the goal matrix!
Transform the Target matrix to match the Goal matrix.
- Tap cells in the Search and Replace matrices to toggle their colors.
- Click Apply to replace all occurrences of the Search pattern in the Target.
- Repeat until the Target matches the Goal, without exceeding the number of moves specified by the count.
The game is developed using Devvit, Reddit’s Developer Platform, leveraging its Webview to primarily use standard web technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Clone ryomo/pixel-transform-devvit and open the page.html file in your browser.
Note: Puzzle progress is not saved when playing offline.
The bitmap pattern matching concept is inspired by a research paper of Visulan, a programming language that uses bitmap pattern matching.
Yamamoto, Kakuya. "Visulan: A visual programming language for self-changing bitmap." Proceedings of the International Conference on Visual Information Systems, 1996. PDF
English: This puzzle game is created to deepen the understanding of ARC-AGI, one of the AI benchmarks. Solving such puzzles is considered difficult with current AI, and new approaches are needed to break through it. As one of those approaches, I am considering bitmap pattern matching.