KAtomic is a simple educational

Educational game

Educational games are games that have been designed to teach people about a certain subject, expand concepts, reinforce development, understand an historical event or culture, or assist them in learning a skill as they play...

 puzzle game that is part of the game package

Kdegames

The kdegames package contains games written for the KDE. kdegames provides games in a number of genres including card games, arcade games and board games.- Arcade :*KBlocks - A Tetris clone*KBounce - A JezzBall clone for KDE...

 which ships with the KDE

KDE

KDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems...

 desktop environment. It is a clone of the early 1990s commercial game Atomix

Atomix (computer game)

Atomix is a transport puzzle video game developed by Günter Krämer and published by Thalion Software, released for the Commodore Amiga and other personal computers in late 1990...

. It employs simplistic two-dimensional view of a molecule

Molecule

A molecule is an electrically neutral group of at least two atoms held together by covalent chemical bonds. Molecules are distinguished from ions by their electrical charge...

. The Elements

Chemical element

A chemical element is a pure chemical substance consisting of one type of atom distinguished by its atomic number, which is the number of protons in its nucleus. Familiar examples of elements include carbon, oxygen, aluminum, iron, copper, gold, mercury, and lead.As of November 2011, 118 elements...

 that make up the molecule are disassembled into separate atoms and scattered around the play field. The player is expected to reassemble the molecule, thus completing current level and moving up to the next one.

Game Rules

• Game pieces can only move in one direction at a time.
• Once an atom
  Atom
  The atom is a basic unit of matter that consists of a dense central nucleus surrounded by a cloud of negatively charged electrons. The atomic nucleus contains a mix of positively charged protons and electrically neutral neutrons...
  
  begins moving it will not stop until it meets either a wall or another piece.

External links

• KAtomic Handbook
• KAtomic at KDE games
• kp-atomix A javascript / html version using katomic graphics and game levels.