The Box
A downloadable game for Windows and macOS
Imagine your world is a box. You get up, complete puzzles to keep you occupied, then you go to bed at the mercy of an AI controlled schedule. It's all you've ever known and life's easy, but you can't help wondering, maybe there's more? Maybe you just need to think outside the box.
How to play
WASD to move, mouse to look, left click to interact with objects.
You can either be satisfied completing the puzzles or you can try to bust out of your little utopia. There's currently two ways to bust out.
Developer notes
Originally intended to have more than one puzzle... but time constraints :(
Every tile lights up when you touch it, essentially removing the need for any constant light source (though I did make the ceiling emit light to keep the lighting soft). This was achieved by using an instanced emissive material that responds to collisions and is 100% dynamic - no lighting is baked, only precomputed.
Pressure plates use some fancy force calculations to determine if enough pressure is on them to actuate. As fancy as they are, you can't stack cubes on top of each other, they must be touching the plate.
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Install instructions
Windows build untested. Discrete graphics recommended. To exit game, Cmd+Q or Alt+F4.
Comments
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Hello , there could i ask you something?! Where did you make your logo???
Played this game myself -- Added subtitles and whatnot to it myself (in the video)-- some sounds did play, but some didn't.
Can check out the video here:
Amazing game though!
Dear developer, configuration window can not be minimized. I went to sleep and then screen say day ? +2 and then i put all nutrition boxes to toilet and then i flush toilet and then i fall and appear in black room and i could not figure out. I think i found bug. Also i can not set graphic quality in game. I can not set vsync. I can not set antialiasing. sounds are missing. I can not pause game with esc button. Playstation 3 gamepad was not tested. I can not run with shift button. I can not crouch with ctrl button. I can not jump with space bar.
I thought it was nice. Nice and short. A bit confusing. Thanks!
Thanks for playing! The game was meant to slowly present itself to the player but the game jam was just too short to create enough content to do that effectively, hence a bit confusing :)
I'm stuck in the drain and I can't get out... :/
Yep, that's the end of the game (there is no outside). This was for a two day game jam and I was a one man team so I didn't have time to implement an end game.