2048-plus

Code archive for 2048 - Plus, a toy project I developed in 7th Grade (2021) and published on Microsoft Store (just for fun) in 2022.

About the project

• Pure Win32 API implementation for the 2048 game
• Optimized bitboard storage - tiles up to 32768
• Simple game checkpointing system
• Adapted and integrated nneonneo's brilliant expectimax AI that consistently achieves the 8192 tile and higher
  • "Eco Mode": A quirky feature that manipulates CPU affinity to throttle the AI and save power (because why not?)
• Theme system supporting arbitrary choice of tile texts and colors

🛠️ What's changed in this 2026 revision:

• Program encoding migrated from GBK to UTF-8
• Converted indentation to spaces
• Removed some poorly-designed themes
• Fixed historical GDI leaks and threading issues I didn't notice back then

🕰️ What's kept original (For nostalgia):

• Project layout and architecture
• Old-fashioned C++ code
• Funny naming and comments
• Chinese UI elements
• The naive .bat-based build system

Build instructions

You'll need windres and g++ on PATH. Then simply run build.bat on Windows:

build     # on cmd
./build   # on pwsh

And it produces the 2048plus.exe executable. Enjoy! ☺️