Defrag

Summary

A casual turn-based puzzler. Play as a disk-defragmenting program trying to save space while someone is adding and removing files.

Instructions (available in-game):

Click to begin selecting a region, then
click again to complete the selection. Click
somewhere empty to move the selected
blocks to that location, or right-click to
cancel. Click "pass" to skip
your move for this turn.

After you make a move, some number of
blocks will be added or removed. The game
ends when there isn't enough space for new
blocks to be added.

Two blocks of different colors can't be
directly adjacent. Try grouping similar
colors to save space.

A more screenshot-heavy version of this guide can be found here.

Tool Credits

sound-effects made using sfxr

Changelog:

The links below are to the original version submitted as part of compo. A newer version can be found here with the following changes:
- Fixed audio latency issues in some browsers (hopefully)
- Tested in firefox and chromium. Browsers with anti-fingerprinting measures enabled
may cause audio to not play.
- Improved selection and placement to hopefully be more intuitive for new players
- Replaced the wall of text with an interactive tutorial