Grove Slide

- Exact Game Genre: 2D Tile Slide Puzzle. - Sub-Genre: 4x4 Grid Botanical Merge and Evolution. - Splash screen presenting botanical crest and setting up initial board state. - Main menu screen offering access to Play, Instructions, Sound Settings, and About screens. - How to Play screen describing 4-way swipe directions, tile tiers, and scoring formulas. - Settings screen managing toggles for procedural sound effects and haptic vibration. - About screen displaying version 20.20.20 and offline privacy specifications. - Game screen hosting an interactive 4x4 grid drawn on a SurfaceView canvas. - Touch gesture detector interpreting directional swipes up, down, left, and right. - Core board simulation performing row compaction, tile merging, and random empty-cell spawning. - 11 botanical evolutionary stages progressing from Sprout up to Ancient Oak. - Animated tile movement interpolating coordinate translations across the grid. - Single-move undo button restoring the previous grid layout from memory. - Board shuffle button rearranging tiles when no immediate adjacent merges exist. - Score tracking system awarding point values based on merged tile evolutionary ranks. - Particle system releasing pollen bursts and petal effects upon tile mergers. - Procedural AudioTrack synthesizer outputting wooden sliding clicks and harmonic merge tones. - Haptic feedback vibrating the device upon tile collision and tier advancement. - Milestone detection triggering stage victory upon creating the Tier 11 Ancient Oak tile. - Game over detector verifying lack of valid moves when all 16 cells are full. - Pause dialog allowing the player to freeze play, restart the board, or return to menu. - Stage clear screen highlighting completed evolutionary tier and move count. - Final results screen displaying accumulated score, highest tile reached, and retry options. - Fully offline design operating with in-memory state and zero external dependencies. --------------------------------------------------