2048 2 for Android

11 things about 2048 2

1. 2048 is a single-player puzzle game created in March 2014 by 19-year-old Italian web developer Gabriele Cirulli, in which the objective is to slide numbered tiles on a grid to combine them and create a tile with the number 2048.

2. The game is won when a tile with a value of 2048 appears on the board, hence the name of the game.

3. The simple gameplay mechanics (just four directions) allowed it to be used in a promo video for the Myo gesture control armband, the availability of the code underneath allowed it to be used as a teaching aid for programming, and the second-place winner of a coding contest at Matlab Central Exchange was an AI system that would play 2048 on its own.

4. 2048 is played on a gray 4×4 grid, with numbered tiles that slide smoothly when a player moves them using the four arrow keys.

5. The user's score starts at zero, and is incremented whenever two tiles combine, by the value of the new tile.

6. When the player has no legal moves (there are no empty spaces and no adjacent tiles with the same value), the game ends.

7. Tiles slide as far as possible in the chosen direction until they are stopped by either another tile or the edge of the grid.

8. If two tiles of the same number collide while moving, they will merge into a tile with the total value of the two tiles that collided.

9. Cirulli created the game in a single weekend as a test to see if he could program a game from scratch, and was surprised when his game received over 4 million visitors in less than a week, especially since it was just a weekend project.

10. After reaching the 2048 tile, players can continue to play (beyond the 2048 tile) to reach higher scores.

11. The fact that the game runs on open-source code has led to many additions to the original game, including a score leaderboard and improved touchscreen playability.