Stained Glass (Game)

Stained Glass

GAME » on 1990

A shareware puzzle game combining peg solitaire with color theory. Later became the basis for the puzzle game Tesserae.

Overview

Stained Glass is a shareware puzzle game developed and released by Kent Brewster for DOS PCs in 1990. It later received a Macintosh port by Nick Schlott later that year. Combining peg solitaire with color mixing, Stained Glass gives players a 12×6 board filled with "panes" of different colors, both Primary (red, blue, and yellow) and "Secondary" (purple, orange, and green), and must jump panes over each-other to clear them, with specific criteria based on their colors. The original DOS version is a text-mode game developed for lower-end systems, while the Macintosh version is reworked with color graphics. The Macintosh version was later revamped into Tesserae (Game), reworking the graphics while adding Tertiary panes and multiple board layouts.

Gameplay

The objective of the game is to clear as many panes from the 12×6 board as possible by jumping panes over other panes, with the best case scenario ending up with only one pane on the board. Panes can only jump over a single other pane horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, and must follow specific criteria:

Primary panes (red, blue, or yellow) can jump over other Primary panes, removing the latter from the board. Primary panes cannot land on Secondary panes, and landing on a different type of Primary pane mixes the two into a Secondary pane (purple panes from red and blue panes, orange panes from red and yellow panes, and green panes from blue and yellow panes).
Primary panes can only jump over Secondary panes if one of the components of the latter is the same as the former. For example, a blue pane cannot jump over an orange pane, as orange panes are formed by red and yellow panes. Jumping over a Secondary pane removes that component from the latter, turning it into a Primary pane of the other component. For example, a blue pane jumping over a green pane leaves a red pane in-between.
Secondary panes can only jump over other Secondary panes of the same color, removing the latter from the board.

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