Topiary Puzzle - A 3D puzzle game
I wanted to develop a simple game that wouldn't take me too long to develop. For some reason I thought of making a puzzle game. I started with the idea of cubes growing. From there I added the mechanic of being able to take blocks away so you could form certain shapes. I realised that what I had a made was a simple topiary simulation :) Since it's a puzzle game, I decided to call it "Topiary Puzzle".
The goal on each level to make a shape with the limited amount of starting blocks you are given. Each colour grows in a different way. Work out which blocks to use where, and make the shape. Once you have placed your blocks, you can then click the grow button. This will make the active blocks grow. Once a block has grown, it becomes dormant and doesn't grow anymore, but the new ones it has spawned do. At each step, you can also prune active blocks to affect the shape of the plant. There are controls and tutorial pages included in the game.
Here is the link
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rsrb1ic59ypeomd/TopiaryPuzzle.zip
You need XNA 4.0, which you can download here
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=20914
And also download .net framework 4 if you don't already have it
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=24872
The goal on each level to make a shape with the limited amount of starting blocks you are given. Each colour grows in a different way. Work out which blocks to use where, and make the shape. Once you have placed your blocks, you can then click the grow button. This will make the active blocks grow. Once a block has grown, it becomes dormant and doesn't grow anymore, but the new ones it has spawned do. At each step, you can also prune active blocks to affect the shape of the plant. There are controls and tutorial pages included in the game.
Here is the link
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rsrb1ic59ypeomd/TopiaryPuzzle.zip
You need XNA 4.0, which you can download here
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=20914
And also download .net framework 4 if you don't already have it
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=24872