Furniture Frenzy for PC

I recently rediscovered a mobile phone game I wrote some years back and seeing it again reminded me how much time I once spent working on making my own games. So, I took it upon myself to bash together a quick reimplementation of furniture frenzy for the PC.

Level 4 from furniture frenzy

Since I had the original game, I was able to salvage the image assets and use them directly. Unfortunately, the source code was long lost, so I needed to write it from scratch. I wanted to remain as close to the original as possible, just adding some minor features, still keeping it very simple. I ended up adding a high score system and tracking of the time it takes you to solve each level.

All up, the game took about a day to write. This time, I'm making the game even more free so that the source code is never lost again. Enjoy!

See Also:

• Windows Download
• MacOSX Download - requires libsdl be installed
• Source code 

Side note: Rush Hour is owned by thinkfun - obtain a license if you intend on doing anything with their ideas. Consider this source code as educational material.

Old-School J2ME Game

In what seems like a previous life, I developed some J2ME games and applications. I recently rediscovered one of the games I worked on sifting through old backups looking for useful code. The game is called Furniture Frenzy which is in the same style as Rush Hour or similar move-box-to-exit navigation games.

The objective of the game is complete a collection of stages in which a blue coffee table is incontinently stuck inside a room full of other furniture.  Furniture can only be pushed or pulled on its shortest side, not pushed along on its longest side. This ensures that you will have to repeatedly move furniture around until you are able to free the coffee table.

Typical Furniture Frenzy stage. The hand is used to move furniture while trying to get the blue table out the exit.

Simple stage. Move the piano up, book case to the right, sofa, down, then blue table out the exit.

More complicated stage.

I always offered this game as a free download, but the website I was hosting it on went under, or I should say, I took it down. So, here it is, back again for your retro enjoyment!

FurnitureFrenzy.jar Download

iPhone/Android port an option ?

Update:  Found a site that was hosting my FurnitureFrenzy along with the original description I wrote for it - historic.