Back with a demo and some screenshots to talk about.
Demo Link:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/jo6f7a52r30u4vb/Puzzles.rar
Please, have in mind that these 2 small and simple puzzles were made in this afternoon, they are far from perfect and are only here to hlep me demonstrate their potential
Puzzle 1:
http://imgur.com/zbPxi4P,LwbrjoK
About:
This involves managing the flow of the cart involving the levers, each lever moves the cart a different ammount of spaces, with the goal to perfectly land on the pre-determined spot (in this case the big red buttom.
Makes the player stop and think about the ammount of space each lever pushes the cart while trying to create the correct combination
Easy to "rework", by rework I mean, its easy to raise its difficult by simple raising the number of levers, in the demo I arranged the levers with values to make sure that no matter what lever you choose first, there will be another one that will lead to the correct result.
Possible Improvements:
- Raise the number of levers
- Reward for those who complete it with 1 try
- Change the track the object move, making it harder to count and predict
OBS: In the demo I linked I left the reset system "open", in the demo you can reset the first lever and just push the cart one by one just to clear the puzzle for the demo's sake.
Puzzle 2:
http://imgur.com/zbPxi4P,LwbrjoK#1
About:
This is less action focused, and a style of puzzle that I really like.
In a laboratory, you have to find the ingredients to make a specific material, in the demo of course everything is at your hand, including how to create such itens.
In a proper game, this could leave to infinite possiblities. Hell! you can make a whole game based on ingredient recovering, it's much less complicated to program than the previous puzzle, but can be much more time consuming depending on the scale of it.
Possible Improvements:
-The lenght of the puzzle can be easily ajusted by raising the number of ingredients necessary, or making them harder to obtain
-More effects to demonstrate the chemical reactions