Hello, Product Hunt Community! 👋
My name is Jack - I've been a big fan of daily mobile puzzle games and wanted to try my hand at building something while I was on paternity leave and I landed on a game that I released on the iOS App Store over the weekend. It is called 🚂 Train: Connect the Tiles!
It is inspired by Mexican Train dominoes (my wife's favorite game), but with a bit of a twist. You build "Train Lines" by moving tiles around the grid so that they match their neighbors either in shape, number, or color. The fewer moves you are able to do this in, the better!
A neat thing about the game's development that I thought this community would be interested in: all of the puzzle generation takes place locally using a pseudo-random number generator, meaning you will get the same daily puzzle as everyone even if you are never connected to the Internet. This also means that there are millions of puzzles to play!
There are no ads, a free daily puzzle, and access to 49 other puzzles immediately on downloading. No data is gathered beyond what is required to do some light analytics to inform future development, and all of the that data is fully anonymized.
Appreciate any feedback. It was fun to build so hopefully you all are able to have fun with it as well!
About Train on Product Hunt
“Daily puzzle game on iOS”
Train launched on Product Hunt on June 13th, 2024 and earned 141 upvotes and 14 comments, placing #17 on the daily leaderboard. A captivating puzzle game that challenges you to connect tiles based on shared attributes to form a single Train Line.
On the analytics side, Train competes within iOS, Indie Games and Puzzle Games — topics that collectively have 121.5k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Train performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Train?
Train was hunted by Jack McGrath. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Train including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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