Took a couple days off from coding challenges but decided to try something tonight. I have been using the Adventure Creator (AC) plugin for Unity, which enables you to quickly make point-and-click adventure games (think old school LucasArts or Sierra On-Line games) without needing to code. …

This afternoon, I decided to try two different prototypes after talking with my friend. Both puzzle designs are pretty standard. In the first one, the player has a black and white image and has to “place” random colored-in pieces on the image to “fill” it. Honestly, solving this puzzle is…

For the 15 puzzle I created (described here), I had to manually assign each puzzle square (the yellow blocks) and the associated solution box. When talking with my friend, he asked about overlaying an image and having the puzzle created automatically. That got me thinking. What if there was a…

[Originally published on LinkedIn] Did another coding challenge. Initially this was going to be a submission for the Low Effort Jam 15 (hence the 15 in the puzzle) but I did not see the jam in time to complete this challenge for myself. …

[Originally published on LinkedIn] Continuing my experimentation in puzzle design, I held a screen share session with the friend who was asking how to create puzzles in Unity using the Adventure Creator tool. …

[Originally published to LinkedIn] Was talking to a friend in the Point & Click Devlog Discord server I’m in and he had mentioned wanting to make a geometric puzzle; however, he wasn’t quite sure how to go about it. …

For the past week or so, I have been working on various puzzle designs in Unity. The idea is that if I can design various prototypes, I can then implement them in a future game. This idea started as part of a conversation with a friend in the Point & Click Devlog’s Discord server. It has been interesting so far so I will keep trying to come up with puzzle ideas — whether original or my versions of ones in popular games. I initially posted the first couple examples to LinkedIn but I will be copying them over here and will continues this series here.