Topic: Diamond Crush is a puzzle game for Windows - abandoned in 2006

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Diamond Crush is a puzzle game for Windows - abandoned in 2006

Welcome to the official Diamonds Project website!

We, the Diamonds Team (tentative name), are working since last September (2005) on Diamond Crush, a puzzle game for one or two players, as the final result of the Diamonds Project, a free didactic collaborative project to learn on the field how a videogame is actually produced and completed, making use of agile programming methodologies, such as Test Driven Development (TDD) and Extreme Programming (XP), still new in the world of game development.

The final product will be released for free later this year. In the meantime, a largely incomplete First Playable Version, with basic offline multiplayer gameplay rules, will be available for download in the Downloads section, for playtesting purposes.

Check back this site for further informations and updates.

the Diamonds Team

Gameplay details

The First Playable Version of Diamond Crush has a classic multiplayer puzzle game gameplay mechanics, with one grid per player, where pairs of colored pieces (Gems and Treasure Boxes, in this case) fall from above, and must be strategically placed to allow the player to delete them, and to fill up the opponent's screen with useless objects (Stones). The player whose grid will be totally full, preventing other pairs to be introduced, will lose the game. Other details regarding the other gameplay modes available in the final version are yet to be announced.

Default button layout
Commands   Player 1   Player 2
Move left   A   Left arrow
Move right   D   Right arrow
Move down   S   Down arrow
Rotate anti-clockwise   R   , (comma key)
Rotate clockwise   T   . (full stop key)


The buttons refer to a "QWERTY" keyboard layout.

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