The game

SHAFT 2009 is based on shareware software originally written for the Commodore Amiga platform in 1991, with a few extra bells and whistles for the iPhone. It is available for purchase via the iPhone App Store.

How to play

SHAFT is the electronic equivalent of the sliding-block puzzle which has been around for decades. On first loading, the blocks will be plain grey, each with a black window at the centre:

Move the blocks by using your finger to slide a neighbouring block into the blank space. When a block is moved into its correct place, the black window will turn to red:

The aim of the game is to slide all of the blocks into their correct place, turning all windows to red.

How to use your own pictures

If all you could do was slide grey blocks around then that would be pretty boring. Hit and you can select your own picture from your photo album. This will then be sliced into squares which replace the blocks:

When the 8 blocks are all in their correct position a 9th block will appear to complete the picture.

Note that when using your own picture, there is no indication as to when individual blocks are in the correct place.

You can switch back to the standard blocks at any time by selecting and hitting in your photo album. As switching between images does not affect the placing of the blocks, you can always use the standard blocks to see which ones are in the correct place and then switch back to your own picture.

Continuing a game

When you close down the game, the current image, block positions and timer value will be stored ready for when the game is reopened.

Starting a new game

You can start a new game without finishing the current one by hitting . The blocks will be shuffled and the timer reset to 00' 00. Note that the timer does not start ticking until you move the first block.

High score

The fastest time to complete the game is stored under the High Score timer. This can be reset to 00' 00 at any time by hitting .

Upgrades

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