GridLock is a tribute to the classic sliding block logic puzzle, featuring tons levels.

The goal of the game is to get the red car out of the parking bay through the exit located on the right side of the board. To do so the player has to move the other vehicles out of the way by sliding them either vertically or horizontally depending on the orientation of the vehicle.

A mobile friendly game made for the Flash Forward Jam 2022! Enjoy!

Notes about Build 0.94 (post-compo edition, outdated):

• Medals are enabled - let's go earn them!
• Badge prize system is in place to award the player for each perfectly solved level.
• Hi-scores are now functioning correctly. I managed to do a system that records all Badges you collect throughout the game in a single scoreboard, therefore the high scores had to be of type "incremental". In Newgrounds database a high score is saved in a 32-bit signed integer (a maximum value of 2,147,483,647) which is more than enough to record how many golden, silver and bronze badges have been awarded to the player.
• Level progression difficulty is the same as the previous version - a playthrough of the game will take you through 100 randomly selected levels from a 425344 levels database. The difficulty criteria for now is only the total moves needed to solve a level. The easiest level is solved with 8 moves, while the hardest one with 51 moves.

Notes about Build 0.93 (the submission entry, outdated):

• Level progression (difficulty) is very simplified for now.
• Hi-scores are working in experimental mode. Please note that they will be cleared in the next update.
• Medals are currently disabled because they will take part in level progression, rewards and score formation.
• There are three prizes you can get when solving a level. A Gold, Silver and Bronze stars - there are a few bugs around them, which will be cleaned when the above issues are resolved. Will happen until the end of the week at latest.
• Currently the Ruffle emulator has a memory leak and the game starts to lag after you play through some levels (especially on mobile). It is not a problem with the game code - I have tested the game with Adobe Scout and there are no problems. Will try to isolate the issue and submit a bug in Ruffle's Github.

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My thoughts of Flash in 2022:

Thanks to Ruffle it is finally possible to run Flash content in the web again. Moreover it runs on almost any mobile device. Because Ruffle utilizes Web Assembly I believe it can outperform the old flash player - for example the game intro vector animations are running smoothly in full screen at 60 FPS on my android phone. With Ruffle working remarkable well I imagine it can be the main building block for a mobile app.. For example here is a Progressive Web App which works like a charm!