game is within 'game' folder
start from folder '1 (start here)' and see if you can make it to the end
i don't recommend looking at credits until you're done, it's not explicitly spoilery, it will just ruin any surprises
of course the hints.txt is there in case you need it
i'm not great with puzzles so idk how easy or obtuse this will be

thanks to drambique for asking if i was participating this year lol
wasn't planning to because teaching sucks all of my creative energy up!! i love teaching but omg it's so much work lol
danni's game for me is so good it helped me realize i don't want to do anything outside of my abilities i just want to do something different in form

also of course thanks mno for the awesome list i love making happy stuff!!!

enjoy? lol

Chistmas Leftovers + Gravity Curtain

Okay I had two ideas for Chistmas sekret santa before settling on Comedy of the Chimera and I thought I might as well share them...!

First idea was a game with games within... two puzzlescript games were made. The game masters wanted to challenge to Chimera.

Challenge 1: Match 3 blocks of each color. Push red blocks and pull blue blocks.

Challenge 2: Reworking of scrapped SokoBoby idea: You and the rocks move at the same time. Get all rocks in the hole and dont get squished by the rocks!

Standard Puzzlescript Controls: arrow keys,x to action, z to undo, r to restart.

Second idea: Gravity Curtain basically had the story of the Comedy but the Chimera has the power to manipulate gravity. Watch out for spikes. It was a pain to individually place every save point and spike.

Controls: WASD, arrow keys to move. R to restart from save point. U and I to activate the gravity curtain!

Credits:
Sound clips from "The Phantom Planet" (1961), Link: The Faces of Evil (1993) and Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon (1993).
Background image is Whistlejacket by George Stubbs

This game is a little buggy and broken but for once I'm actually pleased with the experience as a whole. Just a dumb comedy game about a lady assassin poisoning some soup.

go to the itch.io page for information

this is my first game, its not very good.
my next one will be b ettter i promise

JUMPIN' JIGAWATTS, a game made in one hour for the One Hour Game Jam. The theme was Electricity.

OBJECTIVE
You are the little jolt of volts. Hop from the light switch along the cables (blue pathways) to tag each of the lightbulbs before the time runs out!

CONTROLS
Use the ARROW KEYS/CURSOR KEYS to move your volt.
Use the X KEY, Z KEY, or SPACEBAR to rotate the pathways.

Sometimes you'll need to travel without using the pathways, but don't do this too much or you will fizzle out!

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I feel like I over-reached with this project, and it shows. The scoring system is kind of jacked-up right now for some reason but I couldn't figure it out. I think it's because I'm using the Score Object instead of a regular counter...I don't know. I'll be working on a fix soon enough.

Fluffy Tile World is a simple tile puzzle game. You have to step on each tile and make it to the end tile, but you can only step on each tile once! Amazing. There are also fluffy sheeps you can talk to.

This was made for the Ludum Dare 42 Jam. Here is the LD page: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/fluffy-tile-world

Barista Statement by nilson carroll

- take everyone's orders on the river lethe
- don't mess up. you literally have one chance
- take orders from dynamic npcs (just like irl)

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maybe like a ten (10) minute barista puzzle (?)
made for coffee jam over on itch. original idea
based on something i said in class and everyone
laughed (?)

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"play by your own runes" - nilson

A horrible text-based puzzle game I made back in 2010, a hybrid between minesweeper and Hunt The Wumpus.

Sorry it's all written in Portuguese, but the game should be self-explanatory (but it's not) and even if you don't understand Portuguese this will probably just make it more cryptic than it already is.

A "puzzle" game based around trial and error and being unfair and unintuitive. There could be an invisible button you have to press, a wall that is fake and lets you pass through it or a glitch you have to find that lets you fall through the floor. You wont know if any of these are the right answer until you try them.

I used art that I made 6 months ago so i'm sorry for the quality but I couldn't be bothered making new art.

If the game lags or is running slow try to use the shaderless version. if not don't play the shaderless version because that's not the intended experience.

It's not a garden.

Anyway this is like Deep Freeze but it gradually gets more and more sadistic. It's basically Knytt Polybius.

It's a small hard challenge puzzle.

MARCH 17TH EDIT: I made a certain puzzle less trivial.