PuzzleScript

Taster-menu No.1

Welcome to my first taster-menu of puzzlescript apps from the wider community. This first menu represents some of my earliest forays into the PS universe. There was only one mandatory requirement I insisted on for candidates... I had to personally solve all puzzles myself, end-to-end. The magnifying-glass next to each link provides a short overview of the puzzle, including why I chose to include it.

Most puzzles here are unashamedly biased towards the clickmazes style (2D, minimalist, compact, route-finding, multi-state). Beware however of one major distinction... a general lack of instruction. Where are the rules and what is the goal? Bluntly put, it's down to you to work that out (and the first-rule of rule-discovery is that the first-rule probably isn't the last-rule). The world of the PS-app is a delightful loop of exploration and discovery which I guarantee you will learn to love, just as much as I do.

Taster-menu No.1 (January 2021)

This first taster-menu is restricted to puzzles I have fully solved myself, end to end (which seems only fair on my visitors). The magnifying-glass next to each link provides a short overview of the puzzle, including why I chose to include it.

Find your feet

Perfect for puzzlescript newbies. These puzzles are all based on familiar mechanics, with only the faintest hint of deliberate rule obfuscation. The understated yet effective graphics will help quell the panic attacks.

Expand your horizons

Good puzzles to extend your journey. Be prepared to think outside-the-box while simultaneously admiring the innovative way a single brightly-coloured pixel cleverly conveys a vital aspect of the puzzling experience... if only you could work out exactly what.

Take a leap of faith

Be prepared to throw away the rule book from here on. Thinking outside-the-box will only help if you are mentally prepared to discover a recursive copy of the inner-box. As an aside, if your brain is not yet interpreting two adjacent, tonally-similar pixels as a 3D cube then you aren't yet ready...

Footnotes

The puzzles I highlight above were discovered by a process of random-walk through the spreadsheets, galleries and personal recommendations that welcomed me when I joined the thinky-puzzle-games discord server.