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What is Color Infection?

Color Infection is an online physics puzzle game. The goal of each Color Infection puzzle is to infect all yellow shapes with brown color by colliding them with brown shapes but keep all green shapes uninfected. The game is developed by TapirGames studio.

What is Color Infection Editor?

Color Infection Editor is an online editor to create Color Infection puzzles. You can use this editor to design your own physics puzzles.

What is Color Infection Player?

Color Infection Player is an online player to run the Color Infection puzzles which are created in Color Infection Editor.

What is the puzzle source code?

The puzzle source code contains the data describing the physics puzzle world which created with Color Infection Editor. It is XML format. 

What is play code?

The puzzle play code can be loaded in Color Infection Player for people to play the puzzle.

Why 2 file formats?

Simple answer: consideration for web publishing, bandwidth saving and data secure. But I have to say, currently (version1.0), the comprssion rate of the play code is not efficient and the secure is very weak.

How to make my own puzzles?

How to publish my puzzles?

Please ref Publish Your Puzzles

Are Color Infection products based on Box2d physics engine?

Yes, currently (version1.0), all Color Infection products are based on the as3 version of Box2d physics engine.

How many shape types supported?

Currently (version1.0), only box (rectangle) and ball (circle) are supported.

What is the meaning of different shape colors?

Brown - infected. When a brown shape collides with another infectable shape, the infectable shape will be infected (color changes to brown).
Yellow - uninfected, infectable. The goal of Color Infection puzzles is to infect all yellow balls.
Green - uninfected, infectable. The goal of Color Infection puzzles is to keep all green balls uninfected.
Blue - movale, uninfectable.
Gray - static, uninfectable.
Pink - uninfectable, removable. Currently (version1.0), this is the only interactive object. When playing a puzzle, you can remove them by clicking on them.

What is a hinge joint?

A hinge jount forces two shapes to share a common anchor point.

What is a slider joint?

A slider joint forces the relative translation of two shapes along a specified axis.

What is a distance joint?

A distance joint forces the distance between two shapes be constant.

What does the Glue command mean?

When 2 or more shapes are glued, they will be view as a single body in game playing, which means there is no relative movement between them.

How many objects can I create?

The safe number is 128.