Video and board game design portfolio
Open Box
Language: ActionScript
Goal: Open the box by removing blocks in 12 seconds
Gameplay: Remove blocks by moving them off the screen.
Open Box was a second part of the university assignment. Unlike Flying Ideas, it had to be a mental challenge, which, again, had to be solvable in 12 second. There were a lot of ideas for this assignment including colouring mazes and many more, but this puzzle seemed to work the best.
The most challenging part for this game was to make the gameplay and goals clear for the player without using more than one word (it was also one of the requirements). It was achieved through balancing how far the player has to move the block for it to disappear and using other cues, such as black and yellow walls. The idea was that the player has to learn what he has to do by trial and error approach.