Why is the game called 2048 Cupcakes?
If you are a beginner, one question may pop into your mind - “What’s the point of naming the game 2048 cupcakes”! Please read this article carefully to figure it out.
You have to reach to the Cupcake of the tile number 2048.
As a beginner, you may assume the game is developed entirely by a single team of developers, and it is the original version of the game. But that’s not going to be true in this case. The 2048 Cupcakes game is not an official version. Did you know the 2048 Cupcakes is a modified version of the sliding math puzzle game “2048”?
As a beginner, you need to have some basic knowledge to understand the naming cause of the game. An Italian web developer named Gabriele Cirulli created the 2048 Game and released it as open-source software in 2014.
The goal of the 2048 Game is to reach the tile number 2048 by combining the tiles: 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, and 1024. You’ll be the winner of the game if you can manage to reach the tile number 2048. But what happens if you want to continue to play for a better score even after winning the game? Don’t worry! After achieving the goal, you can continue playing the game, if you want to reach the tile number 4096 or further. Please read this article if you want to learn how to play the game like a pro.
As the goal of the game is to reach the tile number 2048, Gabriele Cirulli named the game “2048”. The original 2048 Game does not use any images to represent the tiles. But several cupcake images are used in the 2048 Cupcakes version to represent the tiles. The respective tile numbers are added at the bottom-right corner of each tile so that it becomes easily identifiable.
As the goal of the game is to reach the tile number 2048, and cupcake images are used to represent the tiles, the game is called 2048 Cupcakes.