Creative Patterns

The application

The main purpose of the app is to create complex patterns on a board of tiles from the eight given basic tile patterns.

Playing with the combinations of the basic patterns improves the shape-recognition and creativity of the users. Can be used as an educational tool from age 8. Can also be used as a Discovery Toy in psychological treatments. But most of all, it's fun to play with, and you can let your imagination soar :)


Supported devices: iPhones running on iOS 9 and above.

Features

The app provides 2 kinds of practicing modes and a game mode beside the main Create feature.

Create your own patterns.

  • Practice

Practice how to reproduce a built-in pattern.

  • Training

Explore the transformation possibilities of the tiles by trying to cover a built-in pattern.

  • Memory Game

Train your memory to remember a practice pattern and reproduce it with as few selections and transformation as you can.

Compose complex patterns

In the screen of every 4 modes (create, the 2 kinds of practices and the memory game) the main point is to compose complex patterns. Each compose screens has a board which contains tiles. In Create you can set the size of the board in the settings screen, while the size of the board is defined by the selected pattern in other modes. By tapping a tile, you can choose from 8 basic patterns as a decorative design. By dragging a tile, you can flip or rotate the basic pattern on it. You can compose complex patterns from these tiles.

When you tap a place on the board, you will see the above popup, where you can choose a pattern for the selected tile.

You can transform the tiles on the board. By dragging a tile, you can flip the pattern vertically or horizontally. You can also rotate tiles both clockwise and anti-clockwise.

Game modes

Create

In Create mode you can save, override, load and delete composed patterns.

By tapping the leftmost icon in the toolbar of the main screen, you can save the current pattern.

You can load or delete a saved pattern on the "Manage Saved Patterns" screen (Create->Open). This screen is accessible by tapping the second icon (from the left) of the toolbar on the main screen.

Modes for existing patterns

The 3 practice or game modes are about completing the opened built-in pattern. When you manage to complete a pattern you see the congratulation popup. You can buy other patterns also.

Practice

Practice to reproduce a built-in pattern. The selected/opened target patter is shown in the upper part of the screen. On the right side with tapping the eyes you can see all the basic patterns.

Training

Try out the transformation possibilities of the tiles with trying to cover a m built-in pattern.

Memory Game

Train your memory to remember a practice pattern and reproduce it with as few selections and transformations as you can.

In-App Purchase

In Practice, Training and Memory Game modes, the built-in patterns can be used. You can buy more pattern packs using In-App Purchase. The additional patterns can be seen in the open list of these modes. When the user taps a pattern whose group has not been purchased yet, a popup informs the user. If they tap the popup, the purchase procedure starts.

The purchase of PatternPacks can also be initiated from any Settings screen if not all the packages have been bought already. If the app is reinstalled or started on a new device, you can restore your previous purchases from Settings as well.

Settings

You can change the size of the board and the colors of the grid and patterns. The grid can be turned off or on. It is easier to compose a complex pattern with grids, but the result looks better without the grid. It is more challenging to reproduce a pattern in practice modes or Memory Game mode without the grid. Similarly, the settings panel can be reached in all four modes, but unusable options for the particular mode are hidden. For example the size of the game board can be changed only in Create mode, while a clock can be shown or hidden in Practice and Memory Game modes.

You can buy PatternPacks or restore earlier purchases and see more info in the In-App Purchases paragraph.

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