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Senthil Kumaran
Senthil Kumaran

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Games: Atomix

Atomix is a very simple sliding block tiling puzzle game, in which, the user has to slide the atoms to form the molecule given as a challenge.

The source code is maintained here https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/atomix/-/tree/main

The game is written in C, with the object-oriented capabilities provided by a system called GObject. The windowing toolkit used is GTK.
The architecture and learning concepts make it a highly approachable game.

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