Randomized game boards, Windows 7 aesthetics, variety of difficulties with progression, welcome to ᴘᴏʟʏ ᴘᴏʟʏ ᴘᴏʟʏ!

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UPDATES!

(Updated 2023-01-14: Added DD, a little assistant that'll help you both learn the game in a basic form and explain other mechanics and menu options.)

(Updated 2023-01-01: Unlocking difficulties now a lot more accessible! Achievements easier now. Got rid of times displaying large decimal numbers, will only show up to 3 decimal places.)

Rant time!

I am very excited to finally be releasing this!! I am a self taught programmer that started just over a year ago. I've always wanted to make games since I was very young child but I never had the chops to do so. I was fiending to get into game dev and whilst learning various engines and not really getting anywhere, I happened across an amazing fellow by the name of KOLANI. We got talking about game dev and they brought up the resurgence of Flash content due to Ruffle being on a massive upwards trend of improvement throughout the last few years. Having been an NG regular since the age of 6, and having years of previous Flash 8 experience growing up dating back to 2010, I decided to make my first game in Flash 8 since it was the environment I was the most comfortable and familiar with. I read the entirety of Flash Game Programming for Dummies by Andy Harris which caught me up to speed with ActionScript 2.0 fairly quick. After finishing that book, I wrote down a small design document on a sheet paper that would serve as the basis for POLY POLY POLY. The document is pretty much a severely cut down and basic version of what this game is, making me believe that it was all I was capable of as a programmer. Not too long before I knew it, I had the entire page I wrote down implemented in Flash. I quickly started gathering ideas from friends during playtesting and decided it would be a good way for me to try new things and challenge myself to see if I could do it. Eventually we got here to this point with the finished game! I am very proud that I could get everything that I wanted in and that there was never a permanent roadblock during the development of this. I know the game is nothing extravagant by any means but I'm just happy to finally have something finished out in the wild.

Massive thanks to everyone in the Ruffle, NG Game Portal and NG.io discords for all the help and being patient with me answering questions. I don't think I would have ever had the proper ambition and self confidence to make a game if it weren't for KOLANI, so please, go give them some love, they did a wonderful job with the backgrounds and logo. Lots of love goes out to cabinetcat for reaching out and helping with interface stuff and other graphic design-y stuff, they're a very intelligent chap that I look forward to collaborating with more. If you're still reading this, thank you, and I hope you look forward to whatever the future holds in my game development career, as this game doesn't come close to scratching the surface of what I want to do or what I'm fully capable of as a programmer.

(Yes, there will be small quality of life updates and additional stuff in the future, don't worry)