If you’ve heard me go on and on about MAGiE, you may remember that after implementing the basic game I got stumped for puzzle content. So, I drafted a story about Proti and Hepi, two young teenagers who live in an apartment complex connected to a mall and also to their school.
One day, Proti and Hepi were at the mall, a very exciting series of events led to them getting captured by robots and thrown into Mall Jail.
The bots drive them each into a cell and stop. Proti feels the bot grip her left arm more tightly, but it releases the right one. The robot is doing something. Interfacing with a box mounted to the bars next to the door. The cell doors slide shut between the girls and the bots. Proti in her cell and Hepi in her cell, and their bots that are now outside the cells, but still holding on to them.
The doors give a familiar buzz and click, but instead of reminding them of letting friends into their apartments, it gives them a locked-in feeling. After a pause, and just before panic sets in, the security bots release their arms and withdraw.
“What the crap!?” they both say in unison.
And so, I implemented Door Lock puzzles. My first real, new puzzle type in 6 years!!!
The puzzle I implemented doesn’t match the door locks in the Mall Story exactly. But the story and the game are both works in progress, so, we’ll be alright!
You can play it right now! MAGiEgame.com