Sliding Puzzle Game: Pirate Treasure Map

"Arrrgh! I be needing your help solving me puzzle, so I can be getting me hands on me buried treasure!" - Captain Brickbeard

This is a sliding tile puzzle game of a 3D pirate treasure map. The map is housed within a wooden box, decorated with gold.

The 15 tiles are jumbled up (the 16th tile is first removed), you then move the columns, rows or individual tiles around the box until they are all back in their correct place.

Solving the puzzle will reveal the path to the hidden treasure.

The size of the box is designed to comfortably hold in small hands.

It took me around 3 - 4 weeks to build. I started with a physical prototype to get the feel and movement of the tiles 'just right'. I then used studio.io to continually refine the design and to make sure each tile fitted visually alongside it's neighbors.

Getting a smooth movement for the 15 tiles, while preventing them from falling out, was tricky and required a lot of trial and error.

Creating the skull on the underside of the wooden box was harder than I thought it would be, this was because of it's small size and also because I was unable to use tile / flat elements as they don't have studs to attach themselves.

I spent a considerable amount of time making multiple design and asset tweaks to make the submission more immediately recognizable as both a sliding tile puzzle game and a treasure map, as I didn't feel the early designs were obvious enough.