Dots & Dashes for Wear OS

Dots & Dashes is a simple looking puzzle game for Wear OS devices (like a Google Pixel watch or Samsung Galaxy watch) which quickly becomes complicated and makes you think.

A video of the game in action: –

Here are some screenshots from the game: –

It facilitates layout changes for different variations.

The options allow changing the devices feedback as well as difficulty level.

Also the instructions for how to play are shown in the rules.

Its interesting to note that Dots & Dashes is a variation of a nim styled two player game.

I have learned something very sad about the Google Play Store for Wear OS. It does not provide any means for apps to be seen! A look at Watch apps gives what you can see here https://play.google.com/store/games?device=watch

And that’s all you get. There’s no sections you can click to open in a group of its own, just a hidden right arrow on some of the rows which may show a dozen more apps. The same is for viewing apps by device (need to be logged in and have a Wear OS device to select it) and the same again for the Play Store on the watch itself!

So for all these watch apps unless you know the exact title to put it in the search box you’ll never see them. There is no chance of exposure from within any aspect of the Google Play Store.  Therefore it’s pointless spending months on apps which will never be seen.

Maybe there’s life in the indie Steam world; Android development itself is becoming a dead use of time, and Android Wear OS is dead and buried.