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Stacky Desktop Edition manual

Introduction

Welcome to Stacky Desktop Edition

A puzzle game about stacks

There are 2 panels each containing a stack.
You can apply operations on the left stack (working).
On the right is the target stack, cannot be modified
Scope is to recreate the right stack arrangement.

There are several puzzle generators of different difficulty.
So will not run out of puzzles. 

Manual

Stack notation explained:

operation (initial stack -- after operation stack)

Single cell operations:

dup   ( n -- n n )
drop  ( n -- )
swap  ( n1 n2 -- n2 n1 )
over  ( n1 n2 -- n1 n2 n1 )
rot  ( n1 n2 n3 -- n2 n3 n1 )
-rot  ( n1 n2 n3 -- n3 n1 n2 )
nip  ( n1 n2 -- n2 )
tuck  ( n1 n2 -- n2 n1 n2 )

Double cell operation:

2dup  ( d -- d d )
2drop ( d -- )
2swap ( d1 d2 -- d2 d1 )
2nip ( d1 d2 -- d2 )
2tuck ( d1 d2 -- d2 d1 d2 )
2rot ( n1 n2 n3 n4 n5 n6 -- n3 n4 n5 n6 n1 n2 )
2-rot ( n1 n2 n3 n4 n5 n6 -- n5 n6 n1 n2 n3 n4)    

n means 1 stack element
d means 2 stack elements next to each other

Credits


A game by Binary Station Studio
Contact:

binary.station.studio@gmail.com