The Boxed Visionary

Someone got a video of actually beating this thing? Is it even possible to get back to the start of it?

This is very cool! I think softlocks are a slightly inevitable consequence of this sort of design, but it's interesting to look at how other games with meta-puzzles — A Monster's Expedition, for example — cater for it. I think allowing players to reset a room (and designing the puzzles to account for that) ends up being a player-friendly way of dealing with the problem. It can increase the potential for shenanigans, but better to deal with those than to subject players to massive undo-chains!

(speaking of which: I'd consider allowing a more rapid, gently accelerating undo if the player holds Z. There were a few occasions where I had to backtrack a lot and the single tap Z was a bit annoying)

Anyway, those are little gripes and the main thing is that the individual puzzles, and broader puzzle, were very fun to figure out :)

Did I "WiN"? Hard to tell at end. Spent ten minutes exploding boxes. But a very nice game, that sorely needs either save points or a restore button. Also, took a while to tell the game pieces from the background. A nice concept with some clever puzzles that could use refining. Thanx.

Not possible past "what he was lacking". Unless I screwed myself earlier down the line.

I like the look of this, but man I can't seem to figure out one of the puzzles in particular. He was lacking? Me too buddy.