Shapegame (game)

Transparent pieces have
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players plan multiple
moves ahead.

Shapegame is a 4 player turn based strategy game built using HTML5, JavaScript, AJAX, PHP and MySQL.

Players take it in turns to place polyominoes on a board, starting from any empty corner, such that each new polyomino is diagonally adjacent to another of the same colour, but not cardinal.

The game allows you to rotate or flip pieces into any orientation with keyboard shortcuts, or by on screen buttons if the user is on a touchscreen device.

The objective of the game is to place down as many tiles as possible before you run out of moves - this generally means you will be using the larger pieces first, but sometimes you will need to use a specific piece to avoid becoming trapped, or to prevent another player from winning.