Tic Tac Tesseract

Ever wanted to build your own galaxy? Now you can. Tap BUILD on the start screen and make your own levels. Drag systems anywhere (yes, outside the cube), drop in any event (comets and wormholes too), add monsters, pick who plays and which bonuses they start with, then hit Play. Win lines follow your layout, so a crooked galaxy plays crooked. Build on 3x3x3, 4x4x4 or even 5x5x5. No ideas? Hit Randomize and get a galaxy that's ready to play, accretion rings included. Add All and Remove All fill or empty a player's starting bonuses in one tap. You can drag an event straight onto a planet, and pick how many comets fly through (up to 5). A comet that hits a system stops there, freezes it for 4 turns and wipes out the settlement on it. When a comet strikes, a small piece breaks off, flies in and goes boom. Comets have shorter tails now and fade in when they show up. Sharper graphics. Planets are rounder and smoother on the new High setting, and sharper on iPhone. If your device can't keep up, the game switches itself to Standard. You can pick either one under Graphics in the settings gear. Turn your phone sideways! Landscape works on phones and iPads now, with the board full screen and the buttons out of the way. Bonuses finally show what they did. Shields put up a bubble, Buff glows while it's armed, mines blow up for real, and Graviton Wave shoves the board. In your own levels, Cosmic String draws a glowing thread between the two systems it joins and Quantum Block flickers with its turns left. New looks: black holes have a real accretion disk (gold and red), pulsars shoot jets, monsters come in two looks and fly a smooth arc, and the Great Attractor visibly drags systems in and lets them snap back. Rule changes: a black hole hits all 26 systems around it (faces every time, edges half the time, corners a quarter of the time). Newton's 2nd Law sets off a black hole. You can cancel an armed Buff, and the one-tap bonuses ask before they fire. If everyone at the table times out twice, the game now pauses instead of picking a winner. Tap Keep Playing when you're back. Hard is harder. It searches deeper on 4x4x4, skips the bonuses that were losing it games, and grabs a winning move it used to let slip. Fixes: a line completed when time moves on ends the game right away, the turn counter starts at 1, How to Play restarts cleanly and stays on screen in landscape, the settings gear is always top right, the PowerUps panel on iPad in landscape no longer leaves a big empty gap, and a bunch of smaller things. Go build something, then let your friend blow it up!