Picominoe

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Picominoe is a board puzzle similar to the popular jigzaw puzzle only that it uses blocks of connected squares in varying forms and sizes instead of predefined shapes. The application presents coding concepts on the following: * sculpting objects (forms and picturebox controls) * dragging and dropping objects (forms and picturebox controls) * mouse clipping * graphics manipulation (rotating blocks

PolyTwister

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PolyTwister is a puzzle game that uses four polygons to form varying shapes. The user can select from a set of built-in predefined shapes and of course, the polygons can be rotated. The program uses various APIs to sculpt the polygon objects.

MagicSquare

Submitted by Oelasor on
Again, please refer to this URL for its description :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_square. This simple game application demonstrates the use of multidimensional arrays. It also features the generic algorithm used to solve the magic square in varying sizes (3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13... you may add more sizes if you wish :-)). Thank you and more magic to come!

Mastermind

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Please see this URL for its description :-) Mastermind (board game) The application demonstrates a way of playing sound files (.wav) fetched from a resource file. It also conveys the use of VB APIs to manipulate graphics. Thank you and happy code breaking!

WordSearch

Submitted by Oelasor on
WordSearch is a word puzzle/game, as its name implies, that lets the player look for hidden words in a board. The words are given/known to the player which makes the game a bit easier to deal with, provided the board size is not that big to explore at and there are fewer words to search for. VB 6.0 was used to develop the game's front-end application and MYSQL facilitated its back-end for storing