Developer: 

Eric Sunshine

Category: 

Games

Requirements: 

Windows Mobile 6, 5, 2003
.NET Compact Framework 2.0

www.sokosave.org

Features:

• Plays classic Sokoban puzzles, as well as Multiban puzzles.
• Computer-assisted movement and intuitive game controls. Simple screen tapping actions move objects automatically over long distances and complex paths.
• Highlights legal moves and pushes.
• Unlimited undo and redo.
• Automatically saves and restores game positions.
• Puzzle browser with preview. Recognizes puzzle collections stored one per file, several per file, and in ZIP archives.
• Configurable behavior and appearance. Includes several high-quality skins for changing puzzle board appearance. Others can be downloaded from the Internet.
• Supports high-resolution VGA/WVGA and low-resolution QVGA in portrait and landscape orientations, as well as 3rd-party pseudo high-resolution SE_VGA and OzVGA modes.
• Includes thousands of puzzles. Others can be downloaded from the Internet.

Version 501:

• New full-screen mode improves playability for large puzzles.
• Now supports translation of program and documentation. New program languages: French (by Vincent Knecht) and German (by Matthias Meger).
• Now supports start-at-end-position puzzles, such as those by Erim Sever, in which the game starts with all boxes on goals, and the pusher moves boxes away from and then back onto goals.
• Added puzzle collections:
• "Sasquatch X" (incomplete), "Microban IV" (incomplete) by David W. Skinner
• "Mulholland D", "Mulholland 2", "V2009", "V2010" by Shaggath
• "Warehouse Volume I" by Rick Sladkey
• "Haikemono", "Pufiban", "Small chessboards" by Jordi Domenech
• "E LevelSet 1", "E LevelSet 2", "E LevelSet 3" (excluding Hexoban puzzles), "E LevelSet 4", "E LevelSet 5" by Erim Sever
• "Blazz", "Blazz2" by Blaz Nikolic
• Updated puzzle collections:
• "Microban III" (37 new puzzles) by David W. Skinner
• "Ghismart2009" (30 new puzzles) by Ghislain Martin
• "SokWhole" (32 new puzzles) by Lee J. Haywood;
• Resolved issue with puzzle board scrollbars appearing unnecessarily when device orientation changed with the playback toolbar hidden.
• Resolved issue in which a failed product version check displayed only an unhelpful message "missing optional assembly" as the failure reason.
• Fixes for several obscure bugs.

Version 345:

• Recognizes and disallows a simple class of box pushes which would make the puzzle unsolvable.
• Automatic discard of unnecessary manually-applied moves prior to a box push.
• Automatic undo/redo when a move is made opposite one already in the movement history.
• Movement prefers straight lines over jagged ones.
• New "pusher lines" score complementing existing "box lines" score.
• Movement animation can be stopped by tapping anywhere on the puzzle board rather than only within the puzzle area or on a wall.
• Selected pusher or box can be cleared by tapping anywhere on the puzzle board rather than only on a selectable object or wall.
• Product version check on "About" dialog and "Updates" option panel respect "Automatic version check" setting.
• Puzzles too large for the display feature scrollbars.
• Updated skins from Gerry Wiseman.
• New puzzle collections: "Sasquatch IX" and "Microban III" by David W. Skinner; "SokWhole" by Lee J. Haywood; "Monde" and "Ghismart2009" by Ghislain Martin.
• Fixes for several obscure bugs.

Version 302:

• Skin support for altering puzzle board appearance. Includes several high-quality skins. Additional skins can be downloaded from the Internet. Utilizes the common skin format understood by Sokoban YASC and YSokoban for Windows.
• Takes advantage of additional optional features provided by various skins, including continuous walls, animations for selected pusher and box, and pusher and box images oriented in the direction of movement.
• Quicker browsing through puzzles in \"Puzzles\" navigation mode.
• Reduced memory footprint related to puzzle board rendering.
• Fixes for several obscure bugs.

Version 260:

• Initial release.