classic Escape

Your goal 🏁 is simply to navigate from the left-hand side to the right-hand side of the screen, but you must escape the hunters 👻 that chase you. You also find some interesting ☀ appearances on the screen - wonder what their purpose is...

"Unlock 🔓 you must" - many boards ranging in size from XXSmall thru XXLarge and beyond Huge to Insane - each with several increasing levels 🎚️ of difficulty.

Rolling screenshots

😉 Play thru numerous levels 🎚️ with more and more hunters 👻 on increasing boards and keep track on which levels are still locked 🔒.
Can you go beyond Huge and play Insane?

Releases

1.3 - The traceable release

Record, play back, and cut and paste your games (the list of recordings is opened from settings).
Take over the game at any point of a recording (provided you have already unlocked the level of the recording).
At the start of each game, level details are displayed (can be turned off in settings).

Unfortunately, updating from an earlier version to 1.3 will reset progress and start over, but future updates will maintain progress.

1.2 - The Gadomski/Holstvig release

Quickly after the initial release, people actually reached back and gave to-the-point and useful feedback.
This feedback is what this release is feeding on.

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Completing a board, like Medium, silently unlocks some bonus levels on that board
=> bonus levels are now part of the commpletion message (although by mistake the word "unlocks" is missing from the message)
Swipe on Android is not working and fixing looks like it may depend on a Xamarin change
=> in this release, swiping on Android scrolls the playing field and does not make a move
Can't hit those small buttons with my big thumb!
=> A zoomfactor on the settings page + pinch to zoom directly on the game page for iOS and Windows 10
Windows and iOS include some fonts that are a bit more fun - so we've freshened up a little using Comic Sans MS and Markerfelt-Thin
Where am I? Especially on small screens when playing large boards, you can get lost
=> when the game is paused you can zoom out to see the whole field of play
Make it easier to read and remember board, level and lineup:
- Board sizes are slightly more verbose, e.g., XXSmall instead of just XXS
- Levels are simply numbered, e.g., 11 instead of ***********
- Lineups are identified using three letters, e.g., bhl instead of 869
  (this increases the number of possible lineups on any level from 1.000 to 17.576, namely aaa..zzz)

Unfortunately, updating to version 1.2 has been seen to loose the progress made in the previous version.
Another version is being worked on...

1.1 - The initial release

On April 11, 2017 version 1.1 was released for iOS, Android, and Windows 10 devices.

The big exercise here was putting together a piece of software running across that variety of device types and sim-shipping.
(Well - nearly sim-shipping: One store came online a number of hours later than the other two.)

After some investigation, Xamarin Forms ended up being the choice of framework/runtime.
A decision that still appears to be the right one :-)

History

First implemented in 1981 using Comal-80 on a DDE machine, the remake of classic Escape is written in C# on Xamarin Forms and currently available on iOS, Android and Windows 10 devices. It's "classic" in the sense that it still uses a simple grid of one-character cells to implement the game-play - although today's emojis have replaced the pre-millenium ASCII characters.

You can go even more retro and play the version called classic Hunt in the Windows console...

Hammer Software does not collect any data.

classic Escape requires no login and only stores game progress and traces locally on your device until you uninstall it.

classic Escape

Have fun 😃 being chased 👻 across the board❗

Rolling screenshots

Releases

1.3 - The traceable release

1.2 - The Gadomski/Holstvig release

Get this on a device near you, now:

1.1 - The initial release

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