Think Inside The Box

Made for GMTK Game Jam 2024.

Hi everyone!

This is a chill, turn-based game where you place Tetris like pieces inside a box. Each turn, you must place all the pieces that you have. The catch is that one of the pieces has the shape that was built in the previous turn. So in order to survive as many turns as possible, you need to be clever how you place pieces so that you can have space for the special piece each turn.

To be honest, this concept seemed super cool at first, but as I was developing the game, I felt more and more that there is something missing. There is a hard cap around 7–8 turns. I'm sure there is a meta play that you could do to go beyond the limit that I hit. I'm also sure there is a pure mathematical formula for the maximum possible turns, which shouldn't be that high of a number.

So because of this, I would consider this game a perfect concept starter, but unfortunately I'm lacking the game design skills to solve the issues mentioned above.

Of course, I will greatly appreciate any feedback and ideas that can make this concept more complete.

Hope you will like it.

Note: The web build could be laggy, I have no idea how to optimize for web. Feel free to download the executable below if you experience issues.