Delete (with Leaderboard) - Instructions on Screen. A fun game where you swap adjacent boxes with each other, to form groups of 3 or more boxes connected to others in the same colour, causing their deletion & replacement from the top by new boxes in new colours. ** Mobile Friendly (in fact easier) ** *** 30 April 2024 Update, auto-deletions faster now, so everybody should be able to improve their scores! *** After a deletion has occurred and the new boxes fall into place to replace them, if any new groups of 3 or more connected boxes of the same colour are formed, they will be automatically deleted. That process keeps repeating until no more deletions are possible at which point you can do more swaps, to attempt to get more deletions happening. If you're lucky every now and then you'll get a nice series of several auto-deletions happening, which you will need to get high scores and move up the Leaderboard. By the way clicking the Championship Cup, toggles the display of the Leaderboard On/Off (once it appears - it reads latest Cloud Data before showing itself). The Leaderboard has a maximum length of 50 Scratchers and it is now full! However you can still get on it if you get a higher score than the Scratcher who is currently 50th on the Leaderboard! ** NOTE: You can now hover over the Championship Cup to find out what that score is! ** NOTE: For those of you who don't know, some people can get a score that appears to place them on the 50 slot Leaderboard, but when they come back later they discover they're not actually on the Leaderboard. There are several reasons this could happen: 1) The Internet dropped out after you started playing 2) You weren't logged into Scratch 3) You're not a "Scratcher" but a "New Scratcher" 4) You did a "See Inside" at some point in the session 5) Scratch's Cloud Servers were down (or broken) 3) & 4) are Scratch enforced restrictions!
Created by @gregatku, for my own interest mainly. Special thanks to @RokCoder who went above & beyond the call of duty, helping me fix the scoring Glitch that happened very occasionally. It appears to be fixed now and hasn't recurred since those changes were made. Thanks also to @colinmacc for advice on how to significantly improve my swipe-detection code. It was inspired by @kobajin's DELETE project - https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/895404688/ - which I loved (@kobajin has recently unshared this project). Anyway as @kobajin noted, it had bugs, some of which I found very frustrating, and I wasted a lot of time trying to make swaps that got stuck and wouldn't happen. My plan originally was to simply remix @kobajin's project and add a Leaderboard to it and restrict the choice of how long you wanted to play for, to just the 20 second option. BUT I couldn't get my head around @kobajin's code, so there was no chance of me being able to fix the bugs. Also in his version of the game the way the new boxes are generated seems to give rise to way too many auto-deletions. So I created by own new game from scratch writing all the code myself and creating new similar (but different) costumes for the boxes. I believe it is now bug free, but I've thought that before and been wrong, so I won't be surprised if I'm wrong again. The update I made on 30th April 2024, centred around putting a few things in "Run without screen refresh" Custom Blocks (where they should always have been) to speed up the auto-deletions quite a bit. Hope you have fun playing it, and please let me know in the comments if you find any bugs. Regards Greg
