Threes2.1.2 Read Me

About: Three's is a puzzle game in which you line up different icons into rows or columns. Be careful though, once a group of icons is in a line they can't be moved. Note to people with earlier versions: You will need to distory the preference fill and the high score file. I changed the format of the data and if you play with the old files Three's will most likely crash. Playing: You are first shown a dialog asking for a playing size. The smallest is 4, but the largest is only limited by the number of icons in the set or the size of your screen. To move an icon, simply click on it. If it isn't in a line and is next to the blank space, it will move. The icons can be changed at any time from the Icon set menu. Icon set are files containing a 'cicn' resource in the "Three's Icon Sets" folder. (Where before they were stored inside the appication.) See 'Adding and Changing Icon Sets' to find out how to add or change icon sets. You can also set a few things in the Preferences, as shown below. The Prefernece window: There are three thing that can be changed here. 1) If the choose size window is show when you start Three's or if You see the playing window at the default size. 2) The default baord size. 3) Where the Highscore file is kept, in the app folder or in the Preference folder. Adding and Changing Icon Sets: To add or change Icon Sets, you will need a resource editor. I use ResEdit and so these instuctions are writen for it. First you need a collection of icons that you want to use. You will need at least 5 different. Remember, more icons bigger sizes :) All icons need to be stored as type 'cicn'. The 'cicn' resource has places for both color and B&W icons, make sure you fill in both so B&W users can see whats going on. The cicn's HAVE to be number consecutively starting a 128 and have no jumps in the numbering sequence. The file's name is the name of the icon set. The needs a Type of 'icõn' (The õ is made by pressing option-"n", and then "o") and a creator of 'The?'. If you think your set is exspesally cool, send it to me. If I agree, I'll include it with future versions of Three's. And of coures give you credit. Quick Note About Files: Just a quick reminder that I changed all the file formats. So make sure you put all the old ones into the trash! If you don't, you just might crash! About the new highscores: When I gave Three's the abillity for nearly unlimited playing sizes, I ran into the problem of keeping highscores. I felt that I couldn't not include these scores. And to add more groups of scores for each possible size was unrealistic. I really wanted to keep the highscore idea in Three's, so I had to come up with a way of making scores equal. This is what I came up with (with help form my brother, Matt) score% = ((moves% + undos%)*1000)/(size%*size%*size%) score% is your score which is compared with other scor…