Boxed In

Please read: it's been brought to my attention that the wording on level 1 is pretty confusing and I can't change it until the jam is over so I'm clarifying here so hopefully people see it.  When the game says "correct configuration," what it means is that there is a specific and somewhat rigid rule around which boxes are invertible.  You might have to guess a bit in the first few levels, but the pattern should become clear pretty quickly after that.

A challenging puzzle game inspired by the Witness where you figure out the rules, and then have to figure them out again when you find something that breaks them.

Created in 6 days for Do You Wanna Jam 2024.  Theme: Inside Out.  Boxed In started out as a game about turning boxes inside out to make two pictures match.  That's still the core gameplay loop, but I added a narrative that fit the game and the theme and it kind of became something else.  I hope you enjoy---even if the narrative doesn't resonate for you, I'm really proud of the puzzles!

Love and credit to Julian Fox for helping me figure out the game's identity and make it awesome.

Controls:

Click and drag to manipulate boxes

Z to undo

R to restart

Sounds:
Music generated by Suno AI

Sounds from Freesound, with a huge thanks to all the creators:

Downloaded on August 11th, 2024

• S: Itemize by Scrampunk | License: Attribution 4.0
• S: Computer Keyboard - single key - type 5 - shift.wav by yottasounds | License: Creative Commons 0

Downloaded on August 10th, 2024

• S: enter 4.aiff by lluiset7 | License: Creative Commons 0
• S: Cancel/miss chime by Raclure | License: Creative Commons 0
• S: ui sound 12.wav by nezuai | License: Attribution 4.0
• S: UI Cute Select Major 6th by plasterbrain | License: Creative Commons 0

Downloaded on August 8th, 2024

• S: Error.wav by Alderman2k | License: Attribution 3.0