2048 Open Fun Game

2048 game with AI, Bookmarks, Auto Replay, History and other fun features, Open Source, no ads

This is 2048 game multiplatform implementation in Kotlin programming language and KorGe game engine.

How to play

Swipe the game board to move all tiles left, right, up, or down. When two tiles with the same number touch, they merge into one with a double number, i.e. 2+2 merge into 4, 4+4 merge into 8 and so on. The goal is to create a tile with the highest number. Number 2048 is a good first win…

We have quite a long video post at Youtube demonstrating the app features, see User experience.

Features that are not present in the original game

• Unlimited and animated Undo and Redo.
• Retries counter. When you make a move after Undo (no matter if it is the same move as before or another move), number of Retries increases. The counter shows total number of retries done during the game and allows comparing different results more fairly.
• Select theme for the app: Device default (for Android 9+), Dark or Light. Dark theme for Android 9+ is turned on by default when system-wide "Dark theme" is turned on in device settings.
• Different portrait and landscape screen layouts. Portrait layout is more or less classic for the 2048 game, and landscape layout allows using screen space better and have larger board.
• Turn on AI (Artificial Intelligence) mode and let the AI play for you. Increase or decrease AI player speed. Stop it and continue playing yourself. Choose one of several AI algorithms, see how they play and compare them.
• Select board size from 3x3 up to 8x8, and not 4x4 default classic size only.
• Bookmarks at the interesting game positions. Return to a bookmark and play again from that place.
• Move number and game duration are shown. The time starts when you make a move. It stops when you tap Undo or Pause button.
• "Watch" mode. Auto replay current game forward and backwards at any speed, stop at any position. Switch to "Play" mode from that place and continue playing, overriding history.
• Recent games with all their moves, bookmarks and scores are stored in a history and can be watched. Or you can play them again from any position / bookmark.
• Game menu allows you to delete current game from history, to restart a game ("Try again") or to open recent game from a list.
• When you tap "Try again" button or open recent game, current game is automatically saved to the history, so you can review or continue to play it later.
• Share a game as a file, so it can be loaded, watched and even played on any other device.
• The app is multilingual. Please add new translations 2048 Open Fun Game at Crowdin

Privacy policy is here.

If you found the project useful, please donate to the 2048 game development via its lead developer.

About the project

The project started in 2020 from the tutorial RezMike/2048 KorGe tutorial project, and then it was rewritten and is being extended aiming at becoming an open (board) game template that is easy to modify, to extend and to play with using Kotlin programming language and KorGe game engine.

Following this goal:

• We use board games terminology as much as possible (e.g. Glossary of chess) in order to ease understanding of implementation logic.
• Add lots of new features.
• Add automated tests.
• Structure and clean code.
• Created Game exchange text format (JSON based) to allow users share and load shared games with all moves and bookmarks.

Contribution

• Your ideas and suggestions are welcome at Issues section.
• The app is multilingual. Please help to translate the app into your language: 2048 Open Fun Game at Crowdin.
• Please take part in Beta testing. The latest Beta Android build is available here.

Changelog

2026-07-07 v.1.16.2 (47) Animation speed can be changed.

• Tap "MOVE" block while playing to change tiles animation speed. #27
• Make speed of moving blocks the same for all tiles. Previously the time to move to the destination was the same, but speed was different.
• Score is counted just like in the original 2048 game now: merging 2 and 2 makes 4 points, and not 2 as before. Final score of previously saved games isn't changed.
• Each board size has its own high score. #26
• Tiles starting from 16384 are renamed to look shorter: 16K, 32K, 64K and 128K. Three new larger tiles added: 256K, 512K and 1M. #33
• Get it on GitHub badge added to Readme, thanks to get-it-on-github. #19
• Open incomplete games in Play mode.
• Updated for Android 17.

2023-08-06 v.1.13.2 (37) Different board sizes.

• Previously we had only 4x4 classic game board. Now "Select board size" menu item added allowing to select boards from 3x3 to 8x8. #9

2022-03-20 v.1.12.0 (34) Share and Load huge game histories.

• Now we can Share and Load huge game histories. Successfully tested with a game having 120 thousand moves. #8
• Keep the game screen on during inactivity.
• "Exit app" button added to the "Game actions" menu. #6
• Fixed "How to play" screen overlays with main screen or "Game actions" opens after closing the "How to play" screen.
• Share and Load game for JVM platform. Files are saved to and loaded from the root project folder. Convenient for the developer's testing.

2021-12-21 v.1.11.0 (33) Retries counter and Landscape layout.

• Retries counter added. When you make a move after Undo (no matter if it is the same move as before or another move), number of Retries increases. The counter shows total number of retries done during the game and allows comparing different results more fairly.
• Landscape screen layout added. Portrait layout is more or less classic for the 2048 game, and landscape layout allows using screen space better and have larger board.
• Optimized to allow games with more than 50 thousand moves.

How to run the project

Android-specific project

This multiplatform project has additional Android-specific project that is customized to have richer User experience on Android platform. The project is in the game2048-android subfolder and can be opened and run using Android Studio.
It consists of build configuration files, and it reuses common source code.

JVM target

Use "jvmRun" Gradle task to start the game as a Java application (i.e. no need for Android device or emulator).

Additional arguments:

Argument	Description
-Duser.color.theme=dark	switch to the Dark Theme
-Duser.language=ru	switch to Russian locale ("zh" - to Chinese Simplified)
-Duser.screen.orientation=landscape	landscape screen orientation ("tall" - taller screen)

Running instructions from Korge template project

The implementation uses the KorGe template project. Below are the compiling and running instructions taken from the template.

You can open this project in IntelliJ IDEA by opening the folder or the build.gradle.kts file.

You can find this template at GitHub: https://github.com/korlibs/korge-hello-world

For Windows, change all the ./gradlew for gradlew.bat.

You should use Gradle 5.5 or greater and Java 8 or greater.

Tasks related to specific targets, might not be available if the target is not enabled, make sure that the required targets are enabled/not commented out in the korge {} section inside build.gradle.kts.

Compiling for the JVM (Desktop)

Inside IntelliJ you can go to the src/commonMain/kotlin/main.kt file and press the green ▶️ icon that appears to the left of the suspend fun main() line.

Using gradle tasks on the terminal:

./gradlew runJvm                    # Runs the program
./gradlew packageJvmFatJar          # Creates a FAT Jar with the program
./gradlew packageJvmFatJarProguard  # Creates a FAT Jar with the program and applies Proguard to reduce the size

Fat JARs are stored in the /build/libs folder.

Compiling for the Web

Using gradle tasks on the terminal:

./gradlew jsWeb                     # Outputs to /build/web
./gradlew jsWebMin                  # Outputs to /build/web-min (applying Dead Code Elimination)
./gradlew jsWebMinWebpack           # Outputs to /build/web-min-webpack (minimizing and grouping into a single bundle.js file)
./gradlew runJs                     # Outputs to /