https://moracan.itch.io/grid-shift In Grid Shift, your job is to keep your company's database clean and neatly organized. However, someone tampered with it, and the data has been erased! Using the hints on the sides of the database, fill the database with the correct data in each spot and restore it! Go, underpaid intern! Grid Shift is a PICO-8 version of a pretty popular logic puzzle named Towers, also known as Skyscrapers. This digital version of that puzzle includes randomly generated puzzles, customizable board sizes (1x1 to 6x6), a hint system to help newcomers to Towers and graphics that aren't simply numbers, they're numbers on towers. With color! Features
ControlsArrow keys to move the highlighted tile X key to increase height / select option in menu Z key to decrease height / go back RulesIf you've never played Towers, here are the basics: This game features an empty board that you need to fill with towers of different heights. This game is similar to Sudoku, in that there can only be one tile of each height on each row and column. To fill the heights, you need to use the hints at the sides; these hints tell you how many towers are "visible" when looking at the board from that side. Higher towers cover smaller ones. For example, the row "2 5 4 1 3 X", when looked at from the X, would show a total of 3 towers.
The game has some visual cues to let you know what's happening:
On the main screen, you can set the board size. Default size is 5x5 tiles, but you can make it 3x3, 4x4 or 6x6 tiles as well, if you'd like. 3x3 is incredibly easy, while 6x6 might be too complicated, or straight up impossible... You can also enable Time Attack mode, where the objective is to solve the puzzle before time runs out, and modify some options.
CreditsGrid Shift has been in "unfinished project" purgatory for over two years now, and I felt pretty bad for it, so I finally polished it up and uploaded it. And no, you haven't seen this before. Totally and completely new. Definitely wasn't uploaded last year with a different name. Memory Leak? What's that? Special thanks to zep.p8 (Lexaloffle) for making PICO-8, and Lazy Devs Academy for their amazing PICO-8 tutorials! Also, if you are a fan of logic puzzles like me, you will love Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection! It in fact was a big inspiration for this project! Some fonts used in this project:
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