General

Sokoban is a classic puzzle game invented in Japan. The original game was written by Hiroyuki Imabayashi in. In 1980 it won a computer game contest. Mr Hiroyuki Imabayashi is president of the company Thinking Rabbit Inc. in Japan. The game is Copyright © 1982 Thinking Rabbit. Over the years many versions have been made for all platforms and new levels are still being created.

Sokoban means warehouse keeper in Japanese. The object of the game is to push boxes into marked position with a minimal number of pushes and moves in a crowded warehouse. The boxes can only be pushed, never pulled, and only one can be pushed at a time. This may sounds easy, but the levels range from very easy ones to extremely difficult ones. Some takes hours or even days to complete. The simplicity and elegance of the rules have made Sokoban one of the most popular logic games.

Since the first Sokoban in 1980 many clones have been made with lots of features, yet it seemed that Sokoban was doomed to remain in the world of 2D-graphics. Well, not anymore. Sokoban 3D is an open-source project that tries to be the perfect solution for all the sokoban-fans who also likes good graphics and gameplay.

Sokoban 3D, or in short Soko3D, has got all what it takes to be an excellent clone:

• User-friendly menus
• Great gameplay
• Free camera and level rotations
• Excellent graphics
• Special effects with particles
• Support of ASCII-levels and LP0-levels (user can add levels too)
• Music (user can add music too)
• Playable in 18 languages
• Pathfinding
• Unlimited undo/redo

... and many more features!

License

Sokoban 3D is distributed under the GNU General Public License. This means that anyone can look into the source and can alter it at will. If you are interested in helping develop Sokoban 3D, you can send me an e-mail.

License (in short):

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Copyright 2006 -2008, Ben Ruyl

Sokoban 3D is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

Sokoban 3D is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with Sokoban 3D; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

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