Assimilation

Assimilation is a video game in the strategy genre developed by Technic Energy and published by Technic Energy originally released in 1995. It is currently playable on DOS.

Assimilation is a shareware variant of the Ataxx board game. Players start with several pieces on an 8x8 square board. On each turn, a player can clone his piece onto an adjacent square (horizontally, vertically or diagonally), or move a piece two squares in a specific direction (knight moves are not allowed in this variant). If a piece is placed on a square adjacent to the opponent's pieces, all of them are converted to the player's color. Some squares of the board are blocked and are not available to any player. The game ends when the players have no more moves, at which point the player with the most pieces is the winner.

As a unique feature of this variant, two hidden bombs are placed on random squares of the board. A piece falling on a bomb is destroyed, and the bomb square becomes unavailable.

The registered version contains 50 board layouts, three difficulty levels for the computer opponent, the option to play without bombs, a move hint function and '3 Killers' which, according to the text file, 'destroy you immediately'. The unregistered version contains only 10 boards and two difficulty levels.

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