Christmas is just around the corner! With only a few days left, I got excited and decided I to make a quick Christmas themed puzzle game. I made it in roughly 3 days to finish it before Christmas, so really it’s a mini-game. I hope you enjoy it. Have a very Merry Christmas! Play it here.…
So you have this idea for a great Puzzle Script game, but it involves checkpoints. You want the player to be able to reset to the checkpoint if they press reset or if they die. How do you do that? This tutorial will cover it, and it’s very simple.
I’ve just put out a new Puzzle Script game on my website called Block Puller. The aim of the game is to pull the orange blocks on the the orange cross. Other elements such as grey blocks and uniquely shaped stages will make this task more difficult as you progress. You can play it on…
I want to talk about scaling the difficulty on puzzle games, covering design and practical tips on scaling and playtesting the difficulty. This article is particularly focused on linear puzzle games but you could apply these techniques to other games.
Ever wished you could check for more than one condition at a time in Puzzle Script, like is there a bomb anywhere on the stage AND a destructible block? This tutorial teaches how to check multiple conditions. It builds on knowledge from the previous beginner tutorials, which I recommend if you’re new to Puzzle Script.
I have created a series of beginner tutorials for Puzzle Script. These tutorials are aimed at someone with no prior knowledge about programming or Puzzle Script, covering everything in step by step detail. Tutorial links below. Make Your First Puzzle Script Game Start Programming in Puzzle Script Creating Objects Setting Win Conditions Using The Late Command Using…
This tutorial isn’t about being fashionably late. Sometimes you want code to run last, after everything else has been checked. The late command is how you do that. This tutorial will teach you how to use the late command in Puzzle Script as well as showing how your code is read by the machine. It assumes no prior programming knowledge except the Puzzle Script tutorials listed here.
