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Puzzle Box Palace

Puzzle Box Palace is an escape room style puzzle game where you are pulled into your grandfather's magical puzzle box. Solve puzzles, manipulate the puzzle box, and jump across furniture as you look for a way out.

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About this game


Puzzle Box Palace is a 3D puzzle game for Windows. It was developed over the course of six months in 2020 by a team of 12 graduate students at 水多多导航 Guildhall, for a total of roughly 200 hours of development time per person.

In Puzzle Box Palace, players are pulled into a magical puzzle box they received as a gift from their grandfather. Players progress through five increasingly complex puzzle rooms, returning to the puzzle box’s central room between each level. As players progress, they use the game’s puzzle mechanics to move and twist pieces of the puzzle box into place. The central room teaches players new mechanics before they enter each puzzle room, and then the puzzle rooms challenge players with logic puzzles, spatial reasoning puzzles, and observational puzzles.

Players can also use light platforming skills to solve puzzles in creative ways as they navigate the puzzle box. Players can find pages of their grandfather’s letter scattered throughout the puzzle box, piecing together their relationship with their grandfather as they move through the game.

Developers

Cohort: 29

Gerardo Alvarez-Reynaga, Sierra Clark, Yichen Duan, Riley Greer, Isaiah Hastings, Yinjiang Li, Jade Luo, Chevis McMillin-Brockway, Jonathan Motes, Vincent Tsou, Liz Wang, Tyler Wolverton

Chef Blob

2D Game | Triple 2 Studio: Yi Luo, Jonathan Listman, Josen Zhang, Jonathan Sarasua, Yan Zhang, Mary Mutter

The core gameplay of Chef Blob focuses on collecting ingredients that the customers’ request to cook and serve them to the customers. This is accomplished by moving the player character across the screen to find the ingredients after they spawn. The player must take the ingredients to the cook zone to create a dish and then serve the dish to the customer. If the player wishes to get rid of a dish or ingredient, they must visit the vomit zone to empty their inventory.

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2D Game | Yuletide Studios: Arthur Davis, Vinson Luo, Hsiao-Yun Tsai, Haomin Wang

Constellation is a 2D puzzle game for the Samsung Galaxy Tablet A. In it, players connect stars into shapes in order to help the main character, Comet, return to their home in the night sky over the course of nine unique levels.

Beginning on the far-left tile of the first screen, Comet progresses towards the right, moving from tile to tile as the player draws the shapes corresponding to each tile’s symbol in the stars overhead. At the far-right side of the first screen, the player is transported to a second screen with new tiles and new stars to use, this time with a new goal: a glowing tile that, when reached, signals the end of the level. Stars cannot be reused in multiple constellations, so players must plan carefully to make sure they have enough stars to complete each screen. Levels also allow players to collect lollipops to unlock bonus content about Constellation’s development!

Drawn in a cute, cartoony style, Constellation is a game for people who enjoy relaxing puzzles in between errands and other tasks in their daily lives. There are no timers, time limits, or limited undos in Constellation – only puzzles, Comet, and the stars.

Constellation APK file

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2D Game | Boss Breaker Studio: Anirudh Sundaresan, Garrett Pfinston, Lee Anne Opfer, Monica Vegunta, Yarin Cohen, Yichen Duan

The story of Dead Path follows Gilbert, the Industrial Wizard, as he tries to defend his various loot chests from Chad, the Hero. The game uses humor and its art style to bring the players into the story and feel invested in the characters. The core loop of the game involves the player iterating their placement of items throughout the level and will lead to a feeling of accomplishment as the player obtains mastery. The main control the player has is during the initial setup phase of the level before they click “GO!” and send Chad running after the loot. As the level is playing itself out, the player has no input and can only witness the results of their setup.

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Digestive Descent

2D Game | Spiral Top Games: Spencer McKean, Vincent Tsou, Ian Brothers, Lara Lewis, Yuanfang Liu

Digestive Descent is a 2D puzzle game for Android and Samsung tablets. Players control Oni the shape-shifting rice ball as he navigates the depths of the monster that’s eaten him, in order to make it out in one piece. The game is centered around matching shapes in sequential rows, in order to create patterns and help Oni reach the exit.

Digestive Descent APK file

Fryfall

2D Game | Prickly Pear Studio

The year is 2046 and the popularity of seafood cuisine is at an all time high. The humans have no concept of restraint and the population of marine life is dwindling. Just when all hope was lost, a secret organization rose up from the deep to do something about it, MISea. This elite task force was comprised of highly skilled marine wildlife with the sole purpose of rescuing captured sea critters. However, one agent stands above the rest. With his dashing good looks and cybernetically modified claw he swings into danger and rescues the unfortunate souls as they wait to be deep fried. His agility is unmatched and he’s always cool, even in hot water. Captured prey wait and hope that they are visited by the spirit from the deep, and he always answers the call on time. You asked his name? Prawn. James Prawn.

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2D Game | Big Tooth Studios: Saad Baloch, Sam Chu, Alexandra Elson, Conor Tully

In Light Up the Knight, the Fire Knight has saved the kingdom from tragedy, slayed innumerable monsters, saved countless lives. Gifted the blazing Fire Sword that quells evil, the Fire Knight is eagerly prepared to return to the field to continue the knight's duty to the people.

The king, however, has other plans.

By decree of the king, the Fire Knight is ordered to leave the battlefield for a new duty: Make the most spectacular fireworks display possible during the upcoming festivals.

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Neon poster

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This game is a platformer in the style of vaporwave.

Neon APK file

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2D Game | Girl Power Studios: Alex Vaughn, Courtney Leonie, Dana Brooks, Yixuan Wei

Rico Chef poster

2D Game | ComingSoon Games: Kelvin Chung, Adam Gothard, Taylor George, Riley Greer, Qifan Huang

RicoChef is a 2D ricochet-based puzzle game where the player must knock tomatoes off of platforms or hit them with their knife. The player controls Chef Grandma by moving her left and right, aiming, and throwing her knife at tomatoes. Each level has at least three tomatoes in various locations with different obstacles spread throughout the level. The player has a limited number of knives that they can throw in each level. The player must defeat all the tomatoes with their limited number of knives to advance to the next level. As the player progress through the game, new obstacles and a new enemy will be introduced. The player's goal is to help Chef Grandma make her famous tomato soup!

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Slimey

2D Game | Studio RedX: Gerardo Alvarez-Reynaga, Cole Morgan, Amy Bloch, Tianlong Chen

Slimey is a simple, fun, accessible and engaging puzzle-based role-reversal adventure. Using basic inputs, the player launches themselves around dungeons, turning the available traps against the enemy adventurers that inhabit each room using sticky splats and squishes, bloody explosions, and confetti-filled fanfare.

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Slimey APK file

The Gluttonous Grimalkin

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The Gluttonous Grimalkin is a top-down action game in which players control an enchanted cat and run around dwarven city environments, eating dwarves, breaking trebuchets, and growing bigger. The game features three enemy types and two environmental hazards. As the cat grows larger, it gains the ability to eat formerly-dangerous enemies, until, at its largest size, the cat can rampage around each level without fear.


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The Space Escape

2D Game

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Trials of the Archmage

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