Sliding Puzzle

[murad357]

Hello,

I am very new to iPhone game development. I have just finished reading Steffen Itterheim's book on cocos2d. And I have created the 3x3 sliding puzzle game (number) without chipmunk (just for learning purposes); by changing the Sprites texture and keeping a 2 dimensional array to hold data.

I am just wondering if it would be possible to implement that using the chipmunk?

If someone can give me some idea on how to proceed that would be great. I think I can create the space to hold all 9 Sprites (tiles/block), where one tile is empty and the sprites are movable there ..... but my questions are

1) How do I shuffle/scramble the tiles/number blocks (do I still need to keep the 2 dimensional array for that)?
2) How do I determine when the puzzle is solved?

3) Is there any other better way to implement this using chipmunk?

Thank you in advance

- Murad

[slembcke]

Honestly, I wouldn't implement this sort of thing using a physics library for anything other than a gimmick. You'll just end up having blocks get caught on all the corners and a number of other issues. If you really want to do it, scramble the blocks before setting up the physics.

Chipmunk can't help you figure out if the puzzle is solved.

[murad357]

Thank you for the reply.